Climate change activists often employ startling, fear-inducing rhetoric. This can induce anxiety in listeners, causing them to ignore or reject the activists’ message. In order to motivate productive action, activists must mix their messages of fear with messages of hope.
After decades of slow progress on climate action, with political leaders dragging their heels on finance or debating whether climate change is even real, this year’s extreme weather proved a stark reminder that the world has reached some of the tipping points climate scientists have been warning us about.
As the World Leaders Summit opened on day two of COP26, UN chief António Guterres sent a stark message to the international community. “We are digging our own graves”, he said, referring to the addiction to fossil fuels that threaten to push humanity and the planet, to the brink, through unsustainable global heating.
Thousands of lives lost to air pollution, inactivity and unhealthy diets could be saved each year if the UK takes the action needed to tackle climate change, researchers have said. Across the world, millions of lives could be saved if countries raise ambitions on cutting emissions to limit global heating to well below 2C above […]
António Guterres was speaking on Sunday during a virtual event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, which was held in London. I was pleased to mark the 75th anniversary of the first @UN General Assembly meeting with an outstanding group of young people. Together, I am confident that we […]
Some 60 world leaders gather at UN for a “climate emergency” summit aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history.
