A Burning World by Gideon Mendel
Thu 18 Apr
|Islington Climate Centre
Powerful images expose the destruction inflicted upon the natural environment by manmade climate change
Time & Location
18 Apr 2024, 18:05 – 30 Apr 2024, 18:21
Islington Climate Centre, First Floor. Next to Wagamama, Angel Central, Islington. Nearest tube: Angel (5 minutes)
About the event
Cast your minds back to 2016: the year of COP21 in Paris when 194 parties (193 states and the EU) signed an historic agreement to limit the global temperature increase to 2°C, with the aim of keeping it within the ‘safe’ limit of 1.5°C.
Since then, we have had seven years of broken pledges, inadequate policies, corporate greenwashing – and highly profitable business as usual for the fossil fuel industry. And so the carbon emissions and global temperatures just keep on rising. (1.5°C will be reached and exceeded all too soon)
It didn’t have to come to this. As the climate crisis escalates, it's imperative to spotlight the role played by financial institutions. In the last 7 years, $5.5 trillion has flowed from the coffers of 60 banks into fossil fuel projects. alone has contributed over $46 billion.Standard Chartered Bank
In an outstanding piece of greenwashing, Standard Chartered Bank sponsors…