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A Brilliant Opportunity for the Way Forward
2 Dec 2019
ECO is not sure how many delegates remember the First Periodical Review (FPR)(2013-2015) and its Structured Expert Dialogue (SED), when the best scientists of the world presented their newest research on climate change. One of their biggest message was the insight that there is no guardrail for a limit on global warming (e.g. the 2ºC […]
Welcome to Madrid
2 Dec 2019
Dear Delegates, ECO is glad you found your way to Santiago de Chile Madrid. Rest assured, ECO will not forget about the people of Chile and will closely follow the situation and update you. But not only the location of COP25 has changed. Just like the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report last year adjusted our frame […]
Shopping for article 6 rules
2 Dec 2019
In some parts of the world, today is cyber Monday, one more day of consumption splurge. ECO is no fan of this consumerist model, but in a conciliatory spirit, we have prepared a shopping list nonetheless. And what better thing to hunt for on a day aimed at driving market activity than a robust set […]
Voices from the Front Lines
2 Dec 2019
Australia burned this spring. Not the regular fires that the country sees every year at the height of summer, but a conflagration. These were fires so hot they started their own thunderstorms, with associated lightning starting yet more fires. At one point, the combined fire front was 6,000 kilometres long. If you drove from Bonn […]
Not Chile but Spain will host our Latin COP: We have some issues
2 Dec 2019
We want some resonance. A resonance that could amplify Latin American perspectives, visions, and challenges at this so-called “Latin COP”. But here we are, yet again in Europe €“ for another year. Here, we are leaving representatives from different constituencies behind, in just another example of carelessness and insensitivity to the people and peoples who […]
Big Shift coalition open letter to the leaders of the MDBs
26 Nov 2019
As public finance institutions in a time of climate emergency, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have an urgent responsibility and opportunity to align their lending with the Paris Agreement. Doing so will require ending support for all fossil fuels by the end of 2020, rapidly scaling up investments in renewables and energy access, and transparent reporting on finance levels and portfolio emissions.
Letter to World Bank President and Executive Directors calling for more action on climate change
18 Oct 2019
No more excuses: The World Bank must halt all funding for fossil fuels
18 Oct 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. 18 October 2019: The World Bank’s subsidizing of fossil fuels is fanning the flames of the climate emergency and must stop, a coalition of civil society representing 112 organizations said in a letter to the Bank leadership today. Despite the World Bank Group’s (WBG) announcements at the Paris Climate Conference, flagrant contradictions to climate pledges still exist.
ACT NOW – A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
23 Sep 2019
By Tasneem Essop – CAN Interim Executive Director The people have spoken. The people are acting. Around the world on Friday, over 4 million marched to demand their leaders take urgent action to respond to the growing climate emergency we face. But the power represented by the climate marchers does so much more than avert […]
Reflections on the Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change
19 Sep 2019
Today 515 investors managing $35 trillion in assets released the Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change – the largest-ever group of investors calling on governments to step up climate ambition. Climate Action Network International, aware of the data in the latest IPCC Special Reports on 1.5-degrees Celsius, Land-use and Oceans and the Cryosphere respectively, understands that […]