Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

COP26: Black Agenda Report Special Issue
The Editors
17 Nov 2021
🖨️ Print Article
COP26: Black Agenda Report Special Issue
COP26: Black Agenda Report Special Issue

Black Agenda Report is giving special attention to the recent COP26 climate summit. The editorial team and contributors will present more themed issues in the future and provide in-depth analysis to subjects of importance to BAR readers.

This issue of Black Agenda Report focuses on the recent COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow, Scotland. The 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties was convened by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). COP26 and the effort to halt global warming raise issues that BAR addresses on a regular basis.

The devastation wrought by carbon production has reached catastrophic levels around the world. Every year a new temperature record is reached. Extreme storms and droughts have become the norm and the resulting environmental destruction puts millions of lives at risk. The number of climate refugees throughout the Global South increases along with world temperatures.



The climate emergency is not addressed because the usual culprits, the wealthy capitalist nations, refuse to act. They are under the sway of the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, and other corporate interests which are doing great damage to all life on the planet. 

Since its founding in 2006 BAR has analyzed how capitalist predation and white supremacy practiced by the United States and its allies wreak havoc around the world. The climate crisis is but one result of that dynamic.

The editorial team of Margaret Kimberley, Jemima Pierre, and Ajamu Baraka and regular contributors continue Black Agenda Report’s dedication to providing news and analysis from a Black left perspective. BAR contributors write on a variety of subject matter this week but the COP26 summit is BAR’s focus. There will be more themed issues for Black Agenda Report readership in the future.

COP26
Climate Crisis

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles? Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.


Related Stories

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
White Supremacy and Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
19 August 2026
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations and as a
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Marco Rubio Represents a Clear and Present Threat to Global Climate Liberation…So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him?
22 July 2026
The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Documents of Disaster and Conferences of Calamity: Rhetorical Questions, Questions of Rhetoric and the Transition  from Fossil Fuels
29 April 2026
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels produced a People's Declaration.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”)
18 February 2026
Trump's EPA denies that greenhouse gases endanger public health.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces a Dialectical Paradox That Should Be Celebrated, Not Decried
04 February 2026
The debate over the EPA's new math misses the point.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Theme From the Bottom: Post COP 30 Reflections and the Case for a Global Bottom/Up Collective Intervention of Oppressed and Colonized People
26 November 2025
The path to climate liberation requires a radical break from failed leadership and a serious commitment to class analysis.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright , ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COPing Out In Brazil: How The United Nations Reduces its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions
19 November 2025
Despite being held in Brazil, a nation with the largest Black population outside of the African continent, COP30 has continued a thirty-year pa
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mother Earth Is Angry!
01 October 2025
Mother Earth's angry! She’s shaking herHead and sistar-gurling her hands on herHips … She’s saying, “Enough dinosaur-
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Paris Climate Agreement is the Global Climate “Movement’s” Two State Solution
01 October 2025
The Paris Climate Agreement is akin to a two-state solution for a planet on the brink, a falsehood giving the ecocide perpetrators cover for th
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
If We Respond to the Genocide in Palestine the Same Way We’re responding to the Climate Crisis, We Should Expect Many More Loss of Lives
23 July 2025
The climate crisis and genocide in Gaza share the same root: capitalism’s willingness to sacrifice the masses.

More Stories


  • Alex Saab, Venezuelan Political Prisoner on Trial in Miami, Refuses to “Sing”
    Roger D. Harris
    Alex Saab, Venezuelan Political Prisoner on Trial in Miami, Refuses to “Sing”
    14 Dec 2022
    Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab was kidnapped by the U.S. in 2020 and is still in custody. An evidentiary hearing is taking place to determine if the country that constantly speaks of a "rules based…
  • Invitations for a Seat at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Table Should Not Only Be Rejected, the Table Needs Turning Over!
    Black Alliance For Peace
    Invitations for a Seat at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Table Should Not Only Be Rejected, the Table Needs Turning Over!
    14 Dec 2022
    The 2022 U.S. African Leaders Summit is the latest effort by Washington to exert influence on a continent where it habitually thwarts democracy, sovereignty and independence for 54 nations. 
  • Rain of Sanctions Augurs U.S.-Prodded Regime Change in Haiti from Musseau to Montana
    Travis Ross
    Rain of Sanctions Augurs U.S.-Prodded Regime Change in Haiti from Musseau to Montana
    14 Dec 2022
    U.S. and Canadian sanctions against Haitians are a signal that a new Core Group regime change plot is underway.
  • Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
    Dee Knight
    Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
    14 Dec 2022
    A new book, Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, analyses unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which are war by other means waged by the U.S. against millions of people around the…
  • Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
    Chris Hedges
    Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
    14 Dec 2022
    The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us