COP24: Climate Conference in Katowice

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP 24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from 2 to 14 December in Katowice, Poland. It will be the third "Polish" COP in the past 10 years. The conference is supposed to finalize a rulebook by which the 2015 Paris Agreement will be operationalized, in order to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C.

Expectations and Analysis

Great expectations, low execution: The Katowice climate change conference COP 24

Assessement

The Katowice climate package brings minor progress, but COP 24 failed to deliver on the most fundamental issues such as raising ambition of national contributions, implementing human rights, and ensuring support for developing countries.

By Don Lehr and Liane Schalatek

Klimawandel und Menschenrechte - gefaltete Hände blockieren das Sonnenlicht

Climate change and human rights – Can the courts fix it?

Overview

Climate litigation is on the rise - in Germany, in Europe and worldwide. What role can courts play in the fight against climate change? This article shows the link between human rights and climate change, its implications, and introduces some of the cases.

By Anne Kling

What's at stake for COP 24?

Briefing

The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018.

By Don Lehr

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Radical Realism for Climate Justice

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Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible. Our Dossier is a civil society response to the challenge of such a limitation that's also paving the way for climate justice. Because it’s is neither ‘naïve’ nor ‘politically unfeasible’, it is radically realistic.

IPCC Special Report on 1.5: Limiting global warming without temperature "overshoot"

Analysis

The IPCC Special Report on 1.5 opts for a rigorous interpretation of the 1.5 limit on global warming. It has good reasons to do so: "Overshooting" that target risks irreversible impacts and damage for societies and ecosystems, and increases reliance on unproven, high-risk geoengineering technologies.

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In Paris in 2015 governments agreed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees. The mainstream pathways pin theirhopes to risky and costly technologies. In this joint publication, together with Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Misereor, we present alternatives that are possible and necessary for a change of course.

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Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible. This publication is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while also paving the way for climate justice.