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The COP28 Climate Talks: So Many Pledges, So Little Progress | The New Republic

Source: The COP28 Climate Talks: So Many Pledges, So Little Progress | The New Republic

Kate Aronoff/

December 6, 2023

PINKY SWEAR

The COP28 Climate Talks: So Many Pledges, So Little Progress Flashy pledges are all the rage at U.N. climate conferences. Very few of them will produce the kind of change they promise. […]

Why is the Catholic Church participating in a UN climate summit? | National Catholic Reporter

Source: Why is the Catholic Church participating in a UN climate summit? | National Catholic Reporter

Exactly How Much Life is on Earth? – The New York Times

Source: Exactly How Much Life is on Earth? – The New York Times

By Dennis Overbye

Dec. 1, 2023

What’s in a number?

According to a recent calculation by a team of biologists and geologists, there are a more living cells on Earth — a million trillion trillion, or 10^30 in math notation, a 1 followed […]

What Is Anyone Really Doing at COP? – The Atlantic

Source: What Is Anyone Really Doing at COP? – The Atlantic

The UN climate summit is the one place the countries suffering most from climate change can face down the countries causing it.By Zoë Schlanger

The size of COP28 is hard to comprehend, even from the ground. More than 97,000 people have registered, according […]

How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet – The Washington Post

Source: How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet – The Washington Post

How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet – The Washington Post

Source: How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet – The Washington Post

Subscriber Post: Sneak Peek at New Research

Source: Subscriber Post: Sneak Peek at New Research

How the Media Greenwashes the Fossil-Fuel Industry

By Amy Westervelt (Drilled) and Matthew Green (DeSmog), with additional reporting from Joey Grostern (DeSmog)

As she begins a recent episode of the podcast “Powered By How,” award-winning journalist Nisha Pillai talks about the difficulty of scaling innovation, then introduces her […]