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The Climate Change and Colonisation Connection

9 Mar 2022

09 March By: Kera Sherwood-O’Regan As a global climate movement, we need to move on from thinking about Climate Change as an isolated issue that can be “solved” with surface level and technological solutions. We know that keeping global temperature rise below 1.5℃ requires transformational change in our societies and economies, but our approaches to […]

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The Article 6 Hulk: Will Ministers Create a Greenwashing Monster? / El Hulk del artículo 6: ¿crearán los ministros un monstruo de la ecología? (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

High-level ministers have finally arrived in Glasgow and are discussing Article 6. Hooray! Surely they’ve been paying attention to all of ECO’s asks, and will quickly agree on an extremely robust Article 6 package! Right? Except, well, that’s not quite what we’re hearing… Obviously it can be hard to tell what’s happening behind closed doors in […]

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Parties Need To Get The Chemistry Right On Loss And Damage Finance / Los países necesitan una buena química en la financiación de pérdidas y daños (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

ECO was always a fan of chemistry lessons at school. Understand the elements correctly; consider compounds, composition, structure, and you can get the reaction you are looking for on your litmus test. And as set out in ECO first COP26 issue, finance to support addressing (including recovering from) Loss and Damage, will be ECO’s litmus test for COP26. Parties […]

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Uncommon Time Frames: Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory / Marcos temporales poco comunes: arrebatar la derrota de las fauces de la victoria (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

Just as momentum was building towards agreement on 5-year Common Time Frames (CTFrs), with an end date of 2035 for the next NDCs, a new text takes us back to square one. The EU came around to 5 years just before the COP, and this week the China-USA statement said they would both submit, in […]

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No Action Without Science – 2022 Is Crucial / No hay acción sin ciencia: 2022 es crucial (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

It is bloody late for deep emissions reductions to stay on a 1.5°C trajectory. Nevertheless, this is still needed and the IPCC had made an effort this summer to quantify how to do so. In its first report of the 6th assessment cycle, focusing on the physical facts of where we stand today, the results […]

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Nicola Sturgeon – Whose Side Are You On? / Nicola Sturgeon – ¿De qué lado estás? (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

In the final edition of COP25 in Madrid, ECO looked ahead to COP26, the Scottish COP, the Glasgow COP. Back then we anticipated that the story of Glasgow and Scotland could give a new lifeline to the UNFCCC and breathe some fire into the negotiations. We had hoped that the story of Glasgow, the furnace of the […]

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Coffee At The Aussie Pavilion / Café en el pabellón australiano (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

With Emissions Reductions Minister Taylor back in Australia, the role of Head of Delegation was passed onto the coffee machine in the Australian Pavilion. Australia has shown very high ambition with its coffee game at this COP, receiving net zero complaints from the hundreds of caffeine hungry delegates stopping by the Pavilion for their daily […]

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Taking COP26 back home / Volviendo a casa con la COP26 (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

ECO is happy to share this part of our publications with the Indigenous Peoples Caucus(IPO) to help amplify their voice. This article reflects the views of the IPO.As we push forth in the final hours of  COP26, there is a feeling in the air of “what now? What have we accomplished? Where have we compromised? And most […]

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Fossil of the Day / Fósil del Día (ECO 11, COP26)

12 Nov 2021

Fossil of the Day The UK ranks first place in today ́s Fossil of the Day Fossil of the Day goes to the UK for sticking their heads in the sand on loss and damage finance. You know that feeling when you’ve had an absolute age to study for that crucial exam and you leave […]

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Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance Shows A Path Forward / La Alianza Beyond Oil & Gas muestra un camino para acabar con el petróleo y el gas (ECO 10, COP26)

11 Nov 2021

Today in Glasgow, Denmark and Costa Rica will announce a new and exciting alliance of countries and jurisdictions committing to something long a ‘verboten’ topic at the UNFCCC — an end to oil and gas expansion, and a managed and equitable phase-out of existing extraction. ECO welcomes the groundbreaking announcement of the Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance […]

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