Cat Pettengell is executive director of Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK), which brings together international development and environment organisations in the UK working at the nexus of poverty-nature-climate to advocate for climate justice and sustainable development for all.
CAN-UK is the UK node of Climate Action Network (CAN), a global network of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social and racial justice.
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What were the real successes and failures of COP28, and what does it mean moving forward?
COP28 delivered outcomes that were at the same time historic and not enough. So what were the real successes and failures of COP28, and what does it mean moving forward? Catherine Pettengell of CAN UK takes us through what happened in Dubai.
What happened at COP27?
Despite negotiations being dogged by poor processes and facilities, vested interests and backsliding, an historic agreement was reached at COP27. Catherine Pettengell of CAN UK gives us a run down of what went down in Egypt.
Here’s what the UK needs to do for COP27
Never has there been a more important time to deliver real action on climate change and to keep pushing to go further and faster. Yet we are witnessing the UK government backsliding on climate change promises.