EcoEquity

This past spring, 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia to begin planning a global phaseout of fossil fuels.

I usually hate watching myself talk, but the folks at FacingFuture.TV made me sound good, if a bit excitable.

Just a few days ago, John Fetter of the Institute for Policy Studies interviewed me, at some length, to get my views on Climate Debt.

Not failure, not yet, but we can see it from here 2015’s Paris Agreement could have been a turning point.

The arts of international coalition-building are daunting . . .

Robin Hahnel, U.S. left libertarian economist and stalwart of participatory economics, has long been a friend of EcoEquity, and of the Climate Equity Framework that defines much of its work.

This essay was first published in Foreign Policy in Focus I have for decades been assuring both colleagues and comrades that the climate negotiations are not a sick joke, that “COP” is not short for “Conference of Polluters,” that the negotiations matter.

A number of things are now obvious.

This essay was originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus Just before the recent climate summit in Dubai, COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber, with some exasperation, came out with the following rather amazing statement: “Please help me, show me the road…

It’s important to note that by the most unforgiving measure – the ever-rising atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentration – the international climate negotiations have utterly failed.