Environment

International shipping and aviation remain the elephants in the room at COP21

The Paris agreement of Dec 12, 2015 will most likely go down in history as a major tipping point in the fight against climate change. It is an ambitious and important document, but it is not…

COP21 Mini Reflection: celebrity faces and voices important for sparking discussion on climate change

How do you get the general public to care about climate change? Scientists, policy wonks, and other climate experts alike seem to believe that everyone…

At the end of COP 21: Looking at the scoreboard, looking forward

What a bracket!

As negotiators pulled their third consecutive sleepless night in Paris, those of us watching remotely—and indeed members of civil…

“Not Totally Happy”

I woke up this morning hoping to sit down to read (and write about) a new global climate change deal… but there still isn’t…

Lost and damaged in translation

Activists will converge tomorrow on the grave of the unknown soldier in Paris to commemorate past and…

Reflections in the 11th Hour of COP21

I’ve been delaying writing this “Negotiations Update” for a few days, since it seems every time the Comité de Paris meets we come tantalyzingly closer to a new agreement/protocol/treatment/convention. But now it’s midnight, EST, on December 12 — technically past…

Seeing as I spent most of my watch slot feeling intense secondhand embarrassment for a man who forgot to bring his nameplate, who absolutely could not figure out how to sync the…

The profound under-representation of women at COP21 — and the striking implications

On Tuesday morning, I was thrilled to wake up long before the sun rose so I could listen to the happenings in Paris live. I decided to tune into the Joint High Level Segment, which was…