by pennyurquhart | Nov 15, 2021 | climate change, climate justice, COP 26
COP26 banners at Glasgow Central train station. Copyright: Penny Urquhart I am truly glad that the Glasgow Climate Pact mentions the need to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. And I despair that this is the first time, in 27 years, that a final COP statement has...
by pennyurquhart | Mar 21, 2018 | climate change, climate justice, Uncategorized
Today is Human Rights Day in South Africa. With this in the back of my mind over the past couple of days, two pieces of news triggered resounding bleeps on my ‘high relevancy’ radar. The first bleep made itself known when I read that the United Nations Special...
by pennyurquhart | Aug 1, 2017 | climate conversations, climate justice, Uncategorized
Ibrahim Ceesay is a Gambian social justice activist and Chairperson of the Board of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, a continent-wide youth platform with 45 country chapters and over 20,000 members. Ceesay, who is 31 years old, already has an impressive...
by pennyurquhart | Apr 6, 2016 | climate change and health, climate justice, Uncategorized
Image: Earth Hour 2016 Was it any coincidence that Human Rights Day in South Africa fell on the same day as World Poetry Day – 21st March? Not if you consider how a number of South African poets shone a light on the injustices of the apartheid era – think of Ingrid...
by pennyurquhart | Feb 2, 2015 | Books and reading, climate change policy, climate governance, climate justice, Uncategorized
Image source: http://www.climate-energy-college.net/ As we move rapidly forward into 2015, how do we turn the sagging saga of climate change into a compelling narrative that demands action? There are three main structures for the tension that drives a good story,...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 17, 2014 | adaptation, climate governance, climate justice
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000pv3kVtcb8DA/fit=/fill=250×250/g=G0000aAhxTjHiFT0/I0000pv3kVtcb8DA.jpg Climate protesters in Lima – photo courtesy of LWF/Sean Hawkey COP 20 – the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the...
