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Climate activists during a demonstration at Festival Park, Glasgow, on the first day of the Cop26 summit
MEMBERS of a Global Citizens’ Assembly presented their expectations for Cop26 at a session of the climate summit today.
Global Citizens’ Assembly hosted a panel introducing the citizens’ policy proposals developed during the deliberative process in the run-up to Cop26, including criticisms of democratic or fair process in how decisions are made around climate change at the global level.
Assembly members, including workers from India, China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, joined the event via livestream, urging those watching to set up their own community gatherings to discuss solutions to the climate and ecological crisis.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
