Tag: UN Climate Change Conference
Climate conference ends badly
(CNS): The UN climate change conference in Madrid ended Sunday, having made very little progress on the action scientists believe is required to save the planet, despite adding more time to allow further discussions. But exhausted delegates for some 200 countries were unable to break the deadlock in the international climate negotiations on key issues […]
Cayman’s POF activists demo in Madrid
(CNS): The three young Caymanian environmental activists representing the National Trust for the Cayman Islands at the UN climate change conference in Madrid this week were in the thick of the demonstrations at COP25. After Greta Thunberg took to the stage and berated world leaders for their complete failure to deal with the imminent climate […]
POF students head to UN climate conference
(CNS): Three Caymanian teenagers from the local student activist group, Protect Our Future, are on their way to Spain to attend the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), which opened this week. The students are part of an International National Trust Organization (INTO) delegation drawing attention to the importance of heritage conservation in the […]
‘Inaction’ on climate greatest threat, says OT minister
(CNS): Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign Office minister with responsibility for the overseas territories, has issued a warning that the greatest threat to the world is not climate change itself but “inaction in the face of that threat”. In an address to the UN General Assembly’s climate change meeting, the UK minister said the […]
