Tag Archives | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

  • A crowd in Goiania, Brazil, protests the destruction of the Amazon. Credit: Hpoliveira/Shutterstock

    The framework convention on climate is dead. Now what?

    The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change went into effect in March 1994. Yet, of the twenty-seven meetings that the UNFCCC has held to date, the most recent one, in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, was the most inconsequential.

  • IAEA at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. 9 November 2022

    COP27 fiddling as world warms

    The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.