20th March 2024
Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania, on display at the National Museum of Scotland, maps out a not-so-distant future for our planet A deep blue hue and the sound of the ocean splashing onto the shore welcome me into the exhibition. It’s a Saturday morning so I have the whole place to myself. This ...
15th February 2024
There is a new type of climate denial epidemic emerging in our generation: why do people continue to deny the facts? The Centre for Countering Digital Hate’s report last month declared that a third of UK teenagers believe climate change to be exaggerated, sparking concerns over the hardiness of climate denial to withstand another generation. ...
11th January 2024
Global politics is destroying the planet – we will never solve climate change in a capitalist world order COP28 is over; but it feels difficult to rejoice, even for the big victories achieved. The summit did make historic strides in addressing the climate crisis, with more specific goals being set over a range of different ...
24th November 2023
The climate crisis holds hands with the migration crisis, we must now lend a hand to the Global South. The climate change crisis is something that is being talked about more and more frequently. We all know about it. As it stands, climate change has not affected the Global North as severely as other continents. ...
8th March 2023
We speak to Felipe and Sara, End Fossil activists in Barcelona who pushed their university to be the first in the world to enforce a mandatory climate course. “Don’t be scared. Don’t think ‘what can I do against a university?’ There’s nothing to lose,” says Felipe Martinez, a student activist with End Fossil at the ...
29th November 2021
Protesting is a great way to get involved in activism, but if your actions don’t back up your words, holding a sign is pointless. Everybody loves a protest. You get together with friends, paint a witty yet politically astute sign, feel part of something bigger and – critically – have an excellent excuse to avoid ...
20th November 2021
Writer Rebecca Brimble discusses the importance of Indigenous knowledge in guiding decisions made following COP26. The preservation and use of Inuit Indigenous knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit or ‘IQ’) is essential for effective, efficient, and just implementation of the Paris Agreement. Following COP26, it is imperative that world leaders adopt an indigenised approach to climate change law....
10th November 2021
Negotiations are quickly drawing to a close and it is time to consider the bigger picture surrounding the climate crisis. We’re past halfway at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. With many commitments already being agreed upon and several conferences held over the past week, now is the time to put these into the bigger picture ...
8th November 2021
Monetary pledges have been made at COP26 to help limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In their day of meetings at COP26 finance ministers and international finance institutions across the globe have made an agreement to make funds available for large-scale climate action in recognition that monetary pledges are critical in order to ...
6th November 2021
Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn discusses her time inside COP26, day by day. Day 1: Sunday 31 October I’d applied for media accreditation at COP26 back in September, yet it was on the morning of Saturday 30 October, less than a day before the climate conference was due to begin, that I received official confirmation. Over the ...
