Natural flows do not respect national boundaries. The atmosphere and oceans cross international borders with little difficulty, as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other fluids, including pollutants, easily traverse frontiers.
The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Copping out again
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now
meeting in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 to 18 November 2022.
Ahead of the first United Nations
environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972, a group of scientists prepared
The Limits to Growth report for the
Club of Rome. It showed planet Earth’s finite natural resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.