{"id":1485,"date":"2018-12-04T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/food-faith\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2021-01-29T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:13:14","slug":"on-the-ground-update-from-the-global-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/cop24-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On-the-ground Update from the Global Climate Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here is where Izabella, whose AirBnB I am at, picked me up. Katowice really is a beautiful city.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello from Katowice! Yes, it is raining but spirits are high. I arrived by train last night from Warsaw after a 20-hour trip and shared my dinner table with Max, a sustainable bioenergy specialist from the National Wildlife Federation. Max, who grew up in Oakland, is also working to get Democrats and Republicans to join the Climate Solutions Caucus<\/a>, a bipartisan caucus pushing for climate action – 45 Democrats and 45 Republicans (though the elections set them back a bit as a number of those Republicans lost their seats).<\/p>\n

His video<\/a> inspired me to post my own at the bottom. But before that, here are today’s Top Nine updates and stories that I hope you will find helpful.<\/p>\n

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  1. Sir David Attenborough: Climate change ‘our greatest threat’<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. COP24 climate conference: World facing ‘greatest threat in thousands of years’\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>– new coverage from CNN<\/li>\n
  3. How to pronounce ‘Katowice’<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Fighting Climate Change and Capitalism at the Same Time –\u00a0<\/strong>A Q&A with Naomi Klein<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Jadwiga Lopata, Polish farmer and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and here is a video of\u00a0her acceptance speech<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Why Geoengineering is ‘Untested’ and ‘Untestable’<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Oregon and California crabbers sue fossil fuel companies<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Meat and Dairy to Surpass Oil in Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Climate change: EU aims to be ‘climate neutral’ by 2050<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    My computer is at 4% and I don’t have the right plug adapter, so I’m signing off now…<\/p>\n