After Thunberg’s Big Bang, Climate Summit Ends With a Whimper

SIERRA Magazine — Despite teen activist Greta Thunberg’s electrifying appeal for action, September’s United Nations Climate Summit ultimately hewed to the standard script of international climate meetings: Small countries and island nations made bold commitments to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, multinational corporations trotted out a bunch of nonbinding promises, philanthropists announced some big donations—and the major emitters were either no-shows or conspicuously silent.

Climate, EnergyEmily J Gertz