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7 Nov 2021 GLASGOW, United Kingdom
First Minister Sets Stage For Scotland Leadership In Climate Change Discourse
Sturgeon meets with the executive secretary of UNFCCC and climate activists in first week of COP26.
28 Apr 2021 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Uncertainty Continues Over Timing and Format of COP26 In Scotland
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges more ambition in NDCs ahead of Glasgow conference. Event is widely anticipated by global water community. Greta Thunberg does not plan to attend, while some call for a hybrid of in-person and virtual sessions.
28 Feb 2020 CHICAGO IL
Far Right Groups Spawn An "Anti-Greta"
A 19-year-old German climate change sceptic who has been described by her supporters as “the antidote to Greta Thunberg”, is gaining support from right-wing organisations, including Germany’s far-right party AfD party, and a think tank with links to The White House. Her stance on the climate apparently caught the attention of The Heartland Institute, a US think tank based in Chicago, which has previously lobbied on behalf of tobacco firms, supports fracking and rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.
25 Jan 2020 CORVALLIS, OR, United States
Water Diplomacy Talks - - John Matthews, Alliance For Global Water Adaptation
Dr John Matthews, Executive Director of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) speaks with David Duncan, Publisher, OOSKAnews in this (LINK) video interview for “The Water Diplomat”.Matthews reflects on December 2019’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid. Was this a good COP for advocates of consideration of adaptation in the United Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCCC) process? Was this COP a breakthrough for water? Is water yet embedded in UNFCCC institutional thinking? To what extent has the Greta Thunberg effect improved popular and political awareness of the challenges of climate change adaptation? Looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow Scotland, Matthews describes a wish-list including creation of a “Glasgow Partnership” to build on, and exceed, the achievements of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action – a mechanism that ensures that non-state actors can influence and engage with the UNFCCC process in a formal way...
23 Jan 2020 BEIJING
China Doesn't Like Popular Climate Activism
Beijing has signed up to the Paris Agreement, spent big on clean energy, announced curbs on single-use plastics and made real progress in tackling air pollution. Yet what has become a key driver of the climate agenda globally—activism as popularized by Greta Thunberg—is all-but taboo in China.
15 Dec 2019 NEW YORK NY, United States
2019 Person Of The Year: Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
On December 11, TIME Magazine announced its Person of The Year. Teen-aged climate activist, Greta Thunberg, will take this year’s award after a year in which she has addressed the UN Climate conference in Madrid, the United Nations in New York, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.Modest Thunberg has received much media attention since she, all alone, first sat outside the Parliament in Stockholm in August 2018...
9 Oct 2019 KATHMANDU, Nepal
Local Protests On Global Climate And Water Issues - Nepal
OOSKAnews' Special Youth Correspondent in Nepal, 19 year-old Warren Sangay, has contribute this article with accompanying photography on young peoples' climate change protests in Kathmandu. On 20 September, young Nepalese people joined the international climate protest movement. Under the banner of "Friday for the Future", the local demonstration to protest climate change and rising temperatures was held in front of the UN office in Pulchowk...
28 Sep 2019 NEW YORK NY, United States
15-Year-Old Indigenous Canadian Water Activist Participates In UN Climate Action Summit: "We Can't Eat Money Or Drink Oil"!
For the second time in two years, 15-year-old Autumn Peltier, Anishinabek Nation (Canada) chief water commissioner went to the United Nations to participate in the UN Climate Action Summit.Peltier joined fellow teenager Greta Thunberg at the forefront of an environmental youth movement that stresses the urgency of the climate crisis...
25 Sep 2019 NEW YORK NY
Greta Thunberg: "How Dare You?"
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders Monday, Sep. 23, for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate change. "You have stolen my childhood and my dreams with your empty words," Thunberg said at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.Watch full speech here.
22 Feb 2019 BRUSSELS, Belgium
Greta Thunberg Phenomenon: Juncker Pledges A Quarter Of EU Spending To Climate Change Mitigation, Slams Trump
European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker has proposed that a quarter of all European Union (EU) spending should be directed to mitigation of climate change. Juncker was responding February 22 to Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who in recent weeks has inspired a global movement of children against global warming...