By Marina Herriges

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave a very clear indication before the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27): “we are on the edge of an irreversible climate breakdown.” Nearly 30 years of meetings to promote much-needed change and we still have not reached an agreement to reduce the world’s fossil fuel use, and emissions keep rising. It is frustrating.