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Turning in the right direction – to the results of UN Climate Change Conference

11:28 23.11.2022 Andrey Kadomtsev

Turning in the right direction – to the results of UN Climate Change Conference

According to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the humanity has found itself “on the highway to climatic hell”. Speaking at the opening of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference, Antonio Guterres said that the world “is coming close to a turning point in climate change”. The 27th Conference of members of …

EU – USA: allies or rivals in “green” energy transition?

18:19 17.11.2021 Andrey Kadomtsev

EU – USA: allies or rivals in “green” energy transition?

In the course of the 26thUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties, COP26), the United States and the European Union demonstrated a seemingly shared view on the “green” transition policy. Nevertheless, the two members of the Atlantic community have substantial differences over measures to overcome the …

Infrastructure for Resilient Island States: Raising Climate Ambitions

11:41 01.11.2021 Elizaveta Antonova

Infrastructure for Resilient Island States: Raising Climate Ambitions

Image:UNCTADThe COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference will be held from October 31 to November 12. However, it's already known that India, Australia, and the UK are planning to launch a new «Infrastructure for Resilient Island States» (IRIS) initiative.Artyom Garin, Research Associate of the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and …

How climate is changing politics

12:12 09.01.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

How climate is changing politics

In the fall of 2019, Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, went on record saying that competition for resources was turning ecology into a national security issue. A growing number of politicians and experts share her opinion.While most countries worldwide take a “mixed” picture of the …

Sovereignty versus nature: Central and Eastern Europe not ready to fight for environment at all costs

12:30 03.10.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Sovereignty versus nature: Central and Eastern Europe not ready to fight for environment at all costs

While attending the UN Climate Summit in New York, French President Emmanuel Macron urged European environmental activists to look in the direction of some countries of Eastern Europe, in the first place, those that this summer came up against the “EU initiative to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050”.The 2050 deadline …

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