Excellent COP 21 Summary

Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?  By Brian Tokar (Dec. 30, 2015) It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page Read more…

5 key points in Paris Agreement on climate change

Source: By Haydn Watters, CBC News Posted: Dec 12, 2015 3:01 PM ET After lengthy overnight negotiations and two weeks of touch-and-go discussions, delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris have adopted a climate-change pact. The final text of the Paris Agreement — considered to be the world’s first universal climate agreement — is 31 pages long. While the plenary session Read more…

Climate expert James Hansen at Grandparents Climate Action “We’ve got an emergency!”

September 10, 2015 Written by: Anne Meador and John Zangas Source: DC Media Group – The repercussions of climate disruption are still not being acknowledged fully, warned climatologist Dr. James Hansen, addressing an audience of Baby Boomer and Greatest Generation climate activists on September 9. “We’ve now got an emergency,” Read more…