from Mastodon:
The EU president isn't attending.
The US president isn't.
China's president isn't.
India's president isn't.
France's president isn't.
Germany's chancellor isn't.
Brazil's president isn't.
Russia's president isn't.
South Africa's president isn't.
Canada's PM isn't.
Japan's PM isn't.
Australia's PM isn't.
The Netherlands PM isn't.
But hundreds of oil company lobbyists are attending
and plenty of representatives from fossil fuel investment firms.
The crisis require global action, and it sounds like COP is the only forum in which all countries take part in.
The last two COPs looks like dark jokes indeed, given their hosts. Public pressure is needed to improve the situation. But we shouldn't give up on COPs unless there's a better forum ready to take its place.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.