Dr. John G. Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, comments: If language is not used rightly, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then that which ought to be done is left undone. Confucius The term climate emergency is the political buzz phrase […]
Oil in the time of climate summit
The world’s largest oil companies gathered in New York City on Monday [September 23, 2019]. At the same time, global leaders met at the UN Climate Summit. Executives from thirteen fossil fuel companies talked about how to defend their industry as countries around the world planned to cut carbon dioxide emissions. The chief executive of […]
Climate Migrants – Forced Adaptation
Let’s Talk About Climate Migrants, Not Climate Refugees Dina Ionesco Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Division at the UN Migration Agency (IOM) oversees IOM’s policies and programmes related to the nexus between migration, environment and climate change, and coordinates IOM’s contributions to policy processes, such as the climate change negotiations. This […]
Climate Change: what do you want me to say
‘The future has come to meet us’. Ahead of the UN Climate Summit the FT and The Royal Court collaborate on a short drama exploring inaction on climate change. Actress Nicola Walker, transmitting news from 2050, asks why we ‘never really learnt how to talk about this’. Dr. Peter Meinke, CACOR Member, picked the video […]
World Tourism Climate Strategy
Climate Friendly Travel – World Tourism Strategy 2019 Now the World’ s largest economic sector, employing more than any other, tourism is taking climate risk seriously. The World Travel and Tourism Council in concert with SUNx , issued the following report on making tourism more sustainable in the face of climate change in New York […]