Already we are seeing some of our nations failing,” said Gabon’s Environment Minister, Lee White.
Delegates to the United Nations conference kept watering down drafts of a deal that was intended to put the spoken commitments into action.
Ultimately, despite compromises that made the outcome more weak in environmental campaigners’ eyes, it wasn’t the worst conclusion.
The COP26 summit in Glasgow has put major institutional investors in the spotlight as financiers of both climate change and solutions to combat it, writes Jeffrey Jones.
These are all moves in the right direction.
We saw a problem with consumer plastics; the world uses a lot of them! 330 million tons of consumer plastics are thrown away each year and one of the big culprits are the shoes we wear.
Choosing an environmentally conscious lifestyle is paramount, however we also need to lead industries toward making these same choices.