Is COP-25 over? Thread on readings/resources for interpreting Chile/Madrid

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Reed M. Kurtz

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Dec 15, 2019, 2:22:07 AM12/15/19

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Hello all,

Just in case you haven't been following what is happening in Madrid right now, things have gotten to the point where there is now a twitter account @iscop25over: https://twitter.com/iscop25over

Things have definitely devolved in such a way that it evokes Copenhagen 2009, though arguably the stakes are even higher now. With (what appears to be) such a massive failure ahead of next year's COP26 in Glasgow, I don't think it is too much of a stretch to consider that the entire climate architecture is facing more jeopardy than since the run-up to Paris. And with the repression/protests in Chile triggering the relocation of the summit to Madrid, coupled with the pulverizing victory of pro-austerity/anti-environmental forces in the UK elections, as educators, I think it is incumbent upon us to be able to make these systematic connections among the intertwining social-political-ecological crises the world over and the implications they have for this next, critical decade of climate change politics.

To that end, I'd like to welcome a thread to share readings and resources that you have found useful or essential for understanding what is going on right now in climate politics. Please feel free to share your own thoughts/observations as well. If you respond to me off list I can edit/compile these in message to keep things a bit more tidy.