This year, we saw considerably more interest in the climate crisis worldwide. Many factors went into it, including the Fridays for Future weekly demonstrations, leaders making public pledges to fight climate change, COP27, dire weather consequences...
It has been 10 years since all countries agreed at the COP17 climate conference to reduce carbon emissions. Since then, while many nations have been actively exploring how to achieve net-zero emissions, major polluters like Russia and China have...
What actions can we take in today’s urgent response to the climate crisis? One person’s action may be small, but when those small actions come together, it would be a big difference. Let us try one at a time, starting with the easy ones...
The COP27 climate conference is already underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Before we delve into what we can expect from it, let’s look back at last year’s COP26 and why it ended up being widely criticized as non-inclusive and superficial. COP26...
Unless you are well-to-do, there is no guarantee that you will not become a climate refugee. The UNHCR estimates that 23.9 million had to flee from climate-related disasters in 2019, especially from extreme storms and flood disasters. Developed...
In the view of the upcoming COP27 to be held in November, record 1.5, a new movement that aims to record the events of the climate crisis is planning to produce a documentary to record the sense of crisis in turbulent social change. The record 1.5...
Fridays for Future Japan will be holding another exciting climate march tomorrow, 23 September, in their relentless passion to inspire climate action in Japan. The global climate march is a global event organized by Fridays for Future youths around...
Momentum is picking up for a(n)action, which had a very successful crowdfunding project for climate clocks this year. a(n)action has been installing a climate clock each month from July to September. To date, there are four climate clocks in Shibuya...
Outside the supermarket today, a woman greeted me in the desperate way we have all been greeting each other this summer, whether friend or stranger; “Hot, isn’t it?” The weather report now talks not just about “mid-summer days,” but about...
The climate clock is a visual countdown of the time we have left to take action before climate change reaches a tipping point that will result in damages that lasts for centuries. It is why the countdown has been coined “the most important number in...