Climate Action Chat

I am writing from Bonn, Germany where I am participating in the 23rd Meeting of the Adaptation Committee (AC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The AC members have been discussing the Committee's efforts to communicate about adaptation, both generally and about the work of the Adaptation Committee. I participated in this discussion, noting that a good communication effort involves four basic steps. First, what is the purpose and message of the communication - inform and educate, shared learning, joint problem solving? Second, who are the people involved - the audience(s) and the authors? Third, what is the process of and platform for communication - social media, face to face, mediated (e.g, you tube), blog, webinar, virtual? Fourth, what is the desired pproduct or outcome of the communication activity? These Ps - Purpose/Message, People/Audience/Author, Process/Platform, and Product/Outcome - can provide a framework for developing and implementin...

This post provides a link to an article from "Inside Climate News" about methane emissions stemming from agriculture. Should people reduce their consumption of dairy products and meat, particularly beef? Will doing so make a difference? Are people willing to change? What can - or should be done - to persuade people? What arguments might be influential? https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/the-paris-agreement-will-fail-without-slashing-methane-emissions-from-dairy-and-meat-researchers-say/

I am writing from Bonn Germany where I am participating the 23rd meeting of the Adaptation Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Adaptation Committee was established in 2010 at COP 16 in Cancun. As the UNFCCC website notes, "As part of the Cancun Adaptation Framework, Parties established the Adaptation Committee (AC) to promote the implementation of enhanced action on adaptation in a coherent manner under the Convention and the Paris Agreement." When the climate change negotiations began in the 1990s, country delegations focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). The negotiators deliberated over mitigation policies; ways to reduce GHGs. Developing countries, though, were more concerned about how resilient they were to the impacts of climate change, and how they may need to adapt. Is adaptation more important than mitigation? Should negotiators, countries, and communities make adaptation a (or the) priority? Think about you...