News Headline
After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2021-11-01
In September 2006, shortly before the annual UN climate talks to be held that year in Nairobi, Kenya, I looked for hope amid the predictions of ecological collapse and the total failure of countries to act on emissions. It was hard going. The best I could manage was to argue that political, social and technological awareness of the climate crisis was growing and starting to translate into action. It was now a race between new ideas and political realities.