COP Out or Step Up? Newcastle Rallies as COP29 Stalls
^ Newcastle Climate Day of Action rally. Image Credit: Keira Gratton
November 16th marked the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, coinciding this year with the 11-22nd Azerbaijan COP. Environmentalists across the UK rallied behind the conference, campaigning for greener policies and immediate action.
What is COP?
But let’s backtrack, what actually is a COP? An acronym loosely bandied around, the Conference of the Parties is the world’s most influential climate summit.
In 1992 close to 200 countries signed an international treaty, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, pledging to address the impacts of the climate crisis. They now attend COP, a yearly meeting where countries work towards the treaty’s goals.
COP 29 so far…
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