Our purpose is to increase the capacity and capability of climate-vulnerable country negotiators to engage in international climate negotiations, helping to preserve and enhance the rules-based international system and increase appetite for higher ambition. Our vision is for a fairer, more inclusive negotiation process that enables the meaningful participation of climate-vulnerable country negotiators, supporting the... Continue Reading →
Make COP Count is an informal group of representatives from different faith communities working together on advocacy, hospitality and action ahead of COP26. We believe the global response to the climate crisis must be rooted in justice – we see action on climate finance as essential to this. The co-ordination of this group is through... Continue Reading →
Make COP count
Why COP26 is our best chance for a greener future…
Something powerful is happening around the world. The issue of climate change has moved from the margins to the mainstream, says Alok Sharma, the President-Designate of COP26, the United Nations climate conference set to take place in November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. He unpacks what this shift means for the world economy and the accelerating... Continue Reading →
“This is Loss and Damage – Who Pays” narrated by Mark Strong (COP26 Must Watch Video)
This is Loss & Damage - hurricanes, floods and forest fires are destroying homes and livelihoods around the world, particularly in poorest countries. Why has there been so little action on Loss and Damage by countries with the largest carbon footprints, despite promises made at the Paris Agreement 6 years ago? Governments have been in... Continue Reading →
Faith leaders have joined together to demand urgent climate action ahead of the UN talks in Glasgow. A NEW DECLARATION FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UK calls for people to be “advocates for justice” ahead of the Glasgow summit. The declaration states: “We remind governments of their commitments made in Paris in 2015... Continue Reading →
The Glasgow Multi-faith Declaration for COP26 (UK)
We're more powerful when we work together. That's why ahead of the UN climate talks in Glasgow in November 2021, Quakers in Britain is teaming up with a group of charities and campaigners under the banner 'Make Polluters Pay' to raise the profile of loss and damage caused by climate breakdown. Quaker work on loss... Continue Reading →
Quakers of Britain – ‘Make Polluters Pay’ campaign
Basically this is a version of the synthesis report on nationally determined contributions synthesizes information from the 164 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by the 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the interim registry of nationally determined contributions as at 30 July 2021. PDF | cma2021_08_adv_1
PDF: COP26 – Version of the synthesis report…
The recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world has little chance to achieve agreed climate change mitigation targets in our lifetimes given the continued degradation of the environment. The climate action timelines of many nations are not ambitious enough and current global governance approaches remain weak, lack... Continue Reading →
From UNGA to COP26 & Beyond: The Future of Climate Governance
We are raising funds to get Latin American and Caribbean climate activists to COP26 in Glasgow! *Thank you to Climate Live for being our legal entity and holding funds. The next big climate change conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), is scheduled to take place in Glasgow, UK, from the 31st of October to the 12th of... Continue Reading →
Get Latin American & Caribbean activists to COP!
News and other Video Links on the IPCC Report IPCC Report released on 08.09.2021 - Clean
Video Links Coverage and Comments on the new IPCC Report…
If you could write a letter to world leaders, what would you say? In November, heads of state, climate experts and campaigners will be brought together to agree coordinated action to tackle the climate crisis. COP26 will be the world’s best chance of building a cleaner, heathier, safer, more resilient and egalitarian world for all... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 