In 2019, mourners came to the site of Iceland’s Okjökull glacier, which no longer exists. There they set up a plaque not for the present, but for the future generations who would come after them: “We know what’s happening and what needs to be done; only you know if we did”. This inscription is disturbing […]
Why Climate Diplomacy Is Breaking the People Meant to Save the Planet? As COP30 delegates left the venue in Belém, Brazil in November 2025, something else also occurred that wasn’t covered by the official 55 ariat tried to salvage it. What the cameras caught was procedural chaos. They missed, however, something that is far more […]
When it comes to COP conferences, climate policy memos, and classrooms of future climate negotiators, there is a secret everyone in the climate diplomacy community knows but only few are interested in blurting it out, and that is; the people who are tasked with saving the planet are among its most prolific individual polluters. And […]
5.5%, that is the annual global GHG emissions from the world’s military forces and their supply chains in 2022, which is equivalent to the total carbon footprint of the aviation and shipping sectors. The armed forces of the world, if they were a country, would be the fourth largest emitter on earth, after Russia and […]
Why Climate Diplomacy Is More Relevant in 2026 Than Ever Before As the world grapples with the consequences of the U.S.-Israel military strike against Iran, the Strait of Hormuz closure and oil prices rise, and as embargoes are lifted on Russian crude, the question arises with uncomfortable urgency especially this May 2026: Is climate diplomacy […]
Oka Lesmana 
Abdullahi Ahmed