Our COP18 Side Events
The World Future Council’s Climate and Energy team is currently at COP18 in Doha, Qatar to promote best policies for renewable energy and regenerative urban development. We are participating in three...
View ArticleCommunications flop at COP18: from > 2°C to
The big challenge of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference COP18 hosted by the Qatari government is to agree on a pathway to drastically reduces global emissions and ensure that global warming stays...
View ArticleUN climate talks vital but not the only way
From Qatar: COP18 UN Climate Change Conference 2012 Despite the frustration felt in the UN climate process such talks are still vital. Countries have to sit together and find consensus on climate...
View ArticleWe must create new money to save the climate: interview
From Qatar: COP18 UN Climate Change Conference 2012 Jakob Von Uexkull, Founder of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award, talks about the need to create new money to save the climate. It...
View ArticleRenewable energy: Our fundamental choice today
The future of renewable energies is a fundamental choice, not a foregone conclusion of technological and economic trends. This is one of the key messages of the Global Futures Report that REN21...
View ArticleHow to spend $100 billion effectively?
Developing countries are most vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change. It is therefore of utmost importance to empower these countries to cope with the loss and damage already happening...
View ArticleCities leading the way in climate protection and resource regeneration
This is the nineteenth year of UN climate change negotiations. But even 19 years has proved not long enough for national governments to agree on, and implement, measures that reduce global greenhouse...
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