The UN climate summit in oil-rich Azerbaijan got off to a rough start this fall‚ when Donald Trumpʼs unexpected win cast shadows over global warming talks. His future presidency means US might drop its climate promises again
The meeting in Baku (which depends heavily on selling oil) didnt help calm things down. Many people noticed too-many fossil fuel company representatives walking around the conference halls; this made climate-watchers pretty un-happy. Ban Ki-moon and other big-names in climate work sent a letter saying these meetings just dont work anymore
The COP process is no longer fit for purpose
Hereʼs what experts think could fix our climate problems:
- Rich people should pay up for damage they caused
- Banks need to stop playing nice with polluters
- Being negative about earthʼs future isnt helping
- Poor countries could trade debt for nature protection
- Street protests might need new tactics
The worlds temperature keeps going up - weʼre getting close to that not-good 1.5 degree mark. But instead of giving up hope climate experts are looking at different ways to fix things: from making billionaires help out to changing how banks work. Some smart-people even suggest trading poor countriesʼ debt for promises to save rain-forests