by pennyurquhart | Jul 13, 2023 | Featured, Uncategorized
AKA El Niño ushers in more and more heat Monday 10th July 2023. I am sitting aboard our wide beam canal boat. It is warm but there’s a pleasant, refreshing breeze. Summer is here and I could have not a care in the world. But trouble is brewing on planet Earth....
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 | Nov 27, 2015 | COP21
Catastrophe. The word has a terrible ring – you can almost hear the cataclysm unfolding, as you say it aloud. Previously, could it be that we used this word more rarely, to describe wars and famines that would scarcely touch many of us? Or is that just wishful...
by pennyurquhart | Nov 23, 2015 | Africa, environment
Nola, a 41-year old northern white rhino, died yesterday in a zoo in San Diego. Why should we care, in this time of terror and violence, and just a week away from COP21 in Paris – the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework...
by pennyurquhart | May 18, 2015 | adaptation, climate change, community-based adaptation
The Ninth International Conference on Community-based Adaptation – otherwise known as CBA9 – has come and gone, thankfully before the worst of the flooding experienced last week in Nairobi, where this year’s event was held. If the theme of CBA9 was...
