Cop out, the Liam, running on ramen, the romance of sail

A collection of climate stories, mostly

COP 27, the COPS before, are a cop out

Brands behaving badly

Courtesy of a Cambridge Approach to Improving Education

Full disclosure. Before February 2018 when my working week finally ended, I’m not sure I’d heard of a COP. Perhaps Paris in 2015, but only because of the red line agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade. It’s been mentioned a lot since, mostly because the world is set to overshoot the relative safety of that target quite comfortably.

COPS are annual summits organised by the United Nations, allowing world leaders to meet for twelve days of talks. It’s also become the biggest trade show in the world, full of lobbyists with vested interests, most of which distract from the difficult decisions that fail to be addressed.

Henrik Norborg, recently wrote an excellent article about COP being the perfect example of a planned failure. You can read it in full here.

He argues that projects often fail by design. The project team continue to stick to the plan long after it’s become obvious that it’s not going to work.