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AlterCOP 2026 in Singapore: Thematic Days of Nature Week & Climate Week
OCTOBER - NATURE WEEK Oct 19: Biodiversity & Conservation Preserving Biodiversity, Protecting our Future Why Nature matters: beyond dollars and data, discover how biodiversity and thriving ecosystems sustain lives, support communities, and protect us from climate change. Oct 20: Regenerative Economy & Circularity Redesigning Resources, Regenerating Value This day explores how we redesign our relationship with resources and move from reducing harm to actively restoring ecologi
AlterCOP Team
2 days ago2 min read
AlterCOP 2026 Theme: Building Bridges, Catalysing Change
We are excited to present our central theme for this year’s edition of AlterCOP: “Building Bridges, Catalysing Change.” Building Bridges represents the bridging of the two official COP summits, alongside our commitment to fostering connections across all stakeholders, and between Climate and Nature, the two sides of the same coin to enable a resilient and thriving planet. By creating spaces for open and inclusive dialogue, we aim to bring together diverse voices to collaborat
AlterCOP Team
2 days ago1 min read
An Evening with Sir Robert Swan: Leadership, Action, and the Power of the Next Step
Source: Sir Robert Swan with AlterCOP Core Team and Singapore Volunteers at the Singapore Sustainability Academy What does it take to walk to both the North and South Poles? Last week, AlterCOP volunteers had the privilege of hearing from Sir Robert Swan, the first person to achieve this remarkable feat and the founder of the 2041 Foundation. While many know him as a polar explorer, Sir Robert introduced himself differently. "I'm not an explorer, scientist, or environmentalis
AlterCOP Team
3 days ago3 min read
Bonn 2026: From Promises to Delivery
The Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB64), held from 8-18 June 2026 in Germany, was the main official negotiating moment between COP30 in Belém and COP31 in Antalya. What was meant to be a bridge, instead revealed the complexities behind moving from commitments to action. UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell reminded delegates: “Tackling the climate crisis is the hardest but most important thing humanity has ever tried to do together.” Yet by the closing plenary, many negotiators le
Anushka Puri
Jun 243 min read
Turning Commitments into Actions: Inside the 2026 Bonn Climate Talks
Other than the annual COP conferences, the Bonn Climate Change Conference – colloquially referred to as "Bonn climate talks" and held as a part of the June Climate Meetings (SB64*) – is a key element of the climate change conversation. These conversations hope to guide and inform decisions made for the upcoming COP for the year, to be held in Türkiye in November this year, away from public spotlight and embracing highly technical topics. Taking place in Bonn, Germany, from 8t
Shreya Upadhyaya
Jun 94 min read
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
Could this conference finally shift the world away from fossil fuels? In Santa Marta, Colombia, just north of the nation’s largest coal export hub, representatives from more than 50 nations convened between 24 and 29 April 2026, focusing on pivoting away from fossil fuels. Historically, this has been a slow-moving agenda item at the annual Conference of the Parties (COPs). Despite the 2015 Paris goal of keeping global warming to below 1.5°C, fossil fuels have largely been ign
Shreya Upadhyaya
May 62 min read
AlterCOP 30 Insights Report Launch Calls for Immediate Shift to Realism, Resilience, and Delivery
Drawing on 6,100+ participants across 10 countries, Asia-Pacific's largest alternative COP forum highlights a critical reality that unlocking climate progress requires shifting financial risk appetite as technology is no longer the bottleneck. SINGAPORE, 17 MARCH 2026 – AlterCOP released its AlterCOP 30 Insights Report today, a comprehensive account of findings from its flagship climate forum held across Singapore and nine international chapters parallel to COP30 in Belém. Th
AlterCOP Team
Mar 174 min read
COP30: Drama in Belém But Limited Progress
Protests by Indigenous groups, a fire inside the venue, and frantic last-minute negotiations to avert collapse - COP30 was anything but dull ! Amid global geopolitical tensions, there was at least some reassurance in seeing all countries - except the United States - reaffirm their commitment to multilateralism and the Paris Agreement. While there was no backsliding, the deal reached on the doorstep of the Amazon fell short of the “implementation COP” Brazil had hoped to deliv
Armelle Le Comte
Dec 5, 20253 min read
New York Climate Week: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
The New York Climate Week is an annual event organised by the Climate Group, a global non profit, in partnership with the United Nations. It brings together policymakers, business leaders, and civil society representatives from around the world for hundreds of events from panel discussions to cocktail parties. It is the world’s largest climate event outside COPs. This year’s theme, Power On, highlighted progress across clean energy, climate finance, technology, green jobs, an
Armelle Le Comte
Oct 1, 20252 min read
Climate Adaptation – The Forgotten Sibling!
There have been jokes and stories on the “middle child” syndrome – a sibling whose antics are generally ignored by the parents and, at times, are completely forgotten! In climate action, climate adaptation falls right in between climate mitigation, and loss and damage. The UNEP defines the terms as follows: “While mitigation addresses the causes of climate change (like reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation addresses its impacts (like building sea walls to prevent
Kruthika Eswaran
Sep 25, 20254 min read
Climate Finance: A Polarizing Issue at all COPs
For the past three decades, climate finance has been the defining fault line of the UN climate talks. The dispute is deceptively simple: poorer countries insist that the wealthy nations most responsible for historic emissions must pay to help them adapt and decarbonize, while richer states balk at open-ended financial commitments and want to broaden the number of donors (such as oil-rich countries). The result has been a cycle of unmet promises, turning climate finance into b
Armelle Le Comte
Sep 12, 20253 min read
Living in Harmony with Nature - Road to Vision 2050
Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth at all levels and forms from genes and species to ecosystems. Human civilisation depends on its resources and services for its survival and well-being ranging from basic needs such as clean air, water, and food to cultural and recreational activities. Well-functioning ecosystems form the foundation of a healthy planet, even acting as climate regulators. However we have been extracting the resources at a rapid rate threatening biodi
Karthika Duraisamy Sekar
Sep 9, 20255 min read
10 year-anniversary: What has the Paris Agreement achieved?
In December 2015, for the first time in history, nearly 200 nations adopted a landmark agreement to tackle climate change, recognizing...
Armelle Le Comte
Aug 22, 20254 min read
Mutirão! – What is expected at COP30?
With lacklustre and mixed outcomes from the recently concluded Bonn Summit, the more optimistic London Climate Week, and the geopolitical uncertainty surrounding the upcoming New York Climate Week, all eyes are on the annual COP event in November 2025, taking place in Belém, Brazil – home to the world’s largest and most vital ecosystem.
Kruthika Eswaran
Aug 11, 20255 min read
Should we still believe in COP?
The beginning The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first assessment report in November 1990, highlighting...
Karthika Duraisamy Sekar
Aug 8, 20257 min read
London Climate Action Week 2025
London Climate Action Week was held from June 21 - 29 2025, in London, marking its seventh year. LCAW is one of the world’s largest influential climate events that accelerates local and global climate action. One of the goals of LCAW is to have a ‘whole of society’ engagement, which it achieves by adopting a decentralised format where several organisations and institutions host events throughout the week.
Karthika Duraisamy Sekar
Jul 4, 20255 min read
What happened at the Bonn Summit 2025?
“We need to go further, faster, and fairer” was the official opening remark of the UNFCCC executive secretary, Simon Stiell’s speech...
Kruthika Eswaran
Jul 2, 20254 min read
Bonn climate meetings: a stepping stone to COP30
Climate negotiations do not only happen at COPs. Every year, in May or June, national delegations convene in the quiet town of Bonn in Germany, where the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat is located. The UNFCCC is the primary UN agency for addressing climate change.
Armelle Le Comte
Jun 18, 20254 min read
Outcomes of COP29: what was it all about?
COP is a series of conferences that aim to assess progress in managing climate change, negotiate binding agreements to reduce GHG emissions.
Armelle Le Comte
Jun 17, 20252 min read
Your Stakeholders and Your Sustainability Narrative
Imagine organising a picnic. You invite family, friends, and neighbours—people who are important to the event’s success. You wouldn’t...
Marla Lise
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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