Wealthy countries promised billions of dollars to help developing nations adapt to climate change, but the result rests on a shaky foundation of fuzzy accounting.
- Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
A review of countries’ new climate pledges shows who is leading efforts to protect the climate their economies were built on and who is sliding.
Mundurnya AS dari Perjanjian Paris tak menyetop upaya global dalam memerangi perubahan iklim. Sebaliknya, jelang COP30 pemimpin-pemimpin baru mulai mengambil peran.
Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.
National leaders may be struggling to agree, but businesses see the economic benefits of clean energy, states are cutting emissions, and people everywhere are more cognizant of their actions.
With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are radically rethinking how to be most effective in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
The agreement still leaves many unanswered questions, as well as concerns from vulnerable countries about who will qualify, who pays and who is in charge.
Activists aren’t necessarily more aggressive than in the past, but they are using creative and sometime shocking new tactics that quickly go viral.
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