Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), presenting on how science can enable the policy response to the Paris Agreement: «The largest
opportunities for climate change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.»
While the leaders of the world talk about what to do at the U.N. and institutions like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund take positive steps to divest from fossil fuels (announced the day after the march), the
movement for climate change action will have to grow, learn, and mobilize; and quickly if the 2 degree Celsius temperature increase scientists have warned about is to be averted.
The launch comes as EU energy ministers, MEPs and EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete reach a crunch point in negotiations on the next generation of energy legislation — talks that will be decisive for Europe's energy transition going into one of the last - chance
decades for climate change action.
But I'm left concluding that it would be a whole lot less complicated, and likely far more effective, if we just had a sane Republican party that could cooperate with the administration and Democrats in Congress to pass a new, modern piece of legislation that would establish a national
plan for climate change action.
Germany's massive investment in distributed and renewable electricity, known as the Energiewende (energy transition), is often heralded as the shining
example for climate change action.
«I'm certainly hoping that this time we're going to see this increasing momentum, increasing discussion, and we're hopeful that we're going to see bipartisan support»
for climate change action, McEntee says.