First person account of the 24th United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland, in December, 2018.

When the United States walked away from the Paris agreement on climate change in 2017, it left China as the most significant player in the debate.The Paris agreement is an accord signed in 2015 within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that sets out a series of goals to deal with global greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and finance, starting in 2020.

Tom Athanasiou

Tom Athanasiou, co-founder of Eco Equity gave us his first hand account. He is active in the climate negotiations, author of Divided Planet: the Ecology of Rich and Poor, and the co-author with Paul Baer of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming and Paul Baer’s  Greenhouse Development Rights: The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World.

Kathy Dervin

Kathy Devin, Co Chair of the 350.org Bay Area Legislative Committee let us know what we can do in California. 350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350’s network extends to 188 countries.

Claire Greensfelder

Claire Greensfelder moderated. She is a lifelong environmental, peace, and safe energy activist, educator, political campaigner, and journalist.

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