824 42 By Thomas Vonier
Five hours after the huge anti-COP26 climate demonstration had passed by on Saturday—100,000 people in all, chanting and marching in the rain...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/824/day10-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-10-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-09 17:00:00 823 42 By Thomas Vonier
A Yale University professor here says we will need more “carbon capture” techniques—both natural and human-made—to meet net zero greenhouse gas emission objectives, because we cannot...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/823/day9-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-9-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-09 13:43:00 822 42 By Thomas Vonier
We have amazing capabilities to know what’s going on with our planet. Day-to-day, and even in real-time, we can see exactly how much forest is being harvested and where. We can measure the status of...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/822/day8-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-8-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-08 17:00:00 821 42 By Thomas Vonier
All the talk about carbon is wearing thin on some, and the term doesn’t really register with others...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/821/day7-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-7-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-08 13:30:00 820 42 By Thomas Vonier
Here are six conclusions after the sixth day of COP26... First, electrification is widely viewed as the essential course for all economic...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/820/day6-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-6-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-07 14:44:00 819 42 By Thomas Vonier
For someone who spends so much time decrying “talk,” climate activist Greta Thunberg seems to do her share. She writes, too, sending Tweets to her five million followers. Here’s one from...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/819/day5-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-5-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-06 19:00:00 818 42 By Thomas Vonier
If I can sit here and feel pleased for a while about my low-carbon diet, I do have to consider the many among these 25,000 who flew to Scotland—from Washington DC, from Dar-es-Salaam, from Tokyo, from all...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/818/day4-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-4-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-06 16:06:01 817 42 By Thomas Vonier
Except for the parts on foot, from home to the métro and between trains, I traveled to Glasgow from my residence in Paris by rail. The journey took about ten hours and involved a...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/817/day3-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-3-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-05 12:16:43 816 42 By Thomas Vonier
A thing here that amazes: the huge numbers of people who’ve turned out—25,000 by some estimates, and more seem to be arriving every day. That serves as...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/816/day2-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-2-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-04 14:35:25 815 42 By Thomas Vonier
With youngsters in the Glasgow streets outside of the huge COP 26 compound shouting “no more blah blah blah,” it rankles a times to sit inside the UN Climate Conference compound and listen to ... well, if not exactly...]]> https://www.di.net/media/website_posts/815/day1-post-800x600.jpg url https://www.di.net/cop26-2021-glasgow-thomas-vonier/day-1-informal-dispatches-from-cop26-thomas-vonier/ 2021-11-04 14:06:37