ECO Newsletter

Category: Eco Issues

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11 Dec, 2023

ECO 11, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – CEASEFIRE NOW!!!

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Content:

  1. Great? Good? Average! – Here’s why the new GGA text is bang average.
  2. Justice is the key to a fossil fuel phase out
  3. From the Mitigation Work Programme to Ministers
  4. Article 6: take it or leave it?
  5. Funding for the Financial Mechanism: Don’t You Forget About Me
  6. Sore throat and stinging eyes? Keeping strong fossil fuel phase out language in the text will help at future COPs
  7. Harmful tipping points show the need to respect the 1.5°C warming goal
  8. Weaponizing Water in Gaza: A Desperate Fight for Survival
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Eco Issues / Previous Issues

9 Dec, 2023

ECO 9, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – CEASEFIRE NOW! Issue

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Content:

  1. Climate Talks Or Fossil Fuel Trade Jamboree? How To Get It Right Next Time
  2. “Blockbuster Delays: Saudi Arabia’s 50-Year Cinematic Saga of Obstruction”
  3. Hold Your Breath for Article 6!
  4. Make it Better, Do it Faster!
  5. Listen to Kenya’s President: Huge Increase in Debt Repayments
  6. There is No Climate Justice Without Human Rights, Fossil of the Day is Awarded to Israel
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Eco Issues / Previous Issues

8 Dec, 2023

ECO 8, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – CEASEFIRE NOW! Issue

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Content:

  1. Unveiling Power Plays at the GGA Saga
  2. Baby Steps on Mitigation Won’t Do Justice to Climate Urgency
  3. Rise to the Challenge of COP5 of the Minamata Convention
  4. All the Delegates!
  5. Young Voices: Not Just a SideShow
  6. Pope says Nope to (Agri)business-as-usual, and ‘Hell, Yes!’ to Agroecological Principles
  7. Dangerous Distractions Abound in Carbon Management Challenge Rap
  8. An Albertasaurus at COP28? No, Just Fossil Fuel Champion Alberta
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Eco Issues / Previous Issues

5 Dec, 2023

ECO 6, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – CEASEFIRE NOW! Issue

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Content:

  1. Meet the fossil five
  2. Evolution of impatience
  3. Loss & Damage Finance: the Job is Not Yet Finished!
  4. ‘End Fossil Fuels!’ Demands Indigenous Peoples at COP28
  5. The Money is Flowing in the Wrong Direction
  6. There is Only One Way to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Extraction – Fairly!
  7. Time to Break up with Fossil Fuels? NGOs say YES
  8. Today’s Emissions are Tomorrow’s Deaths
  9. Brazil, Opec+ is Not How You Spell Climate Leadership
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Eco Issues / Previous Issues

4 Dec, 2023

ECO 5, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – CEASEFIRE NOW

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Content:

  1. Make the Global Stocktake a Launch Party for Real Human Rights-Based Climate Action
  2. The renewable revolution has an imposter
  3. Coffee: or why we need a solution-oriented Mitigation Work Programme
  4. Broken promises on adaptation finance
  5. MDBs: Making Development Better?
  6. A Day, a Declaration and Dollars for Health
  7. New Zealand’s U-turn on the way to a liveable future
  8. 100% Renewable, 100% Financeable
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Eco Issues / Previous Issues

3 Dec, 2023

ECO 4, COP28, Dubai, December 2023 – Time For Ambition Issue

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Content:

  1. Time to Sprint to Finish Line of GST Marathon
  2. Recipe for a habitable planet:
  3. The elephant in the climate room – Militarism – remains unaddressed
  4. A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma.
  5. Dear Lula: ambition and oil don’t mix
  6. ECO has a dream! – Beyond Tripled Renewable Energy Targets to 100% Renewable Energy Sovereignty for Africa
  7. ECO won’t swallow a dead rat
  8. NCQG HLMD Scorecard!!!!
 … or read this ECO as a pdf