COP25 talks in Madrid fell short with nations refusing to do more to keep climate change at bay
5 years ago

COP25 talks in Madrid fell short with nations refusing to do more to keep climate change at bay

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Global emissions have to start falling as soon as possible to meet the Paris goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius. This year’s U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended Sunday with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay. While it wasn’t officially on the agenda, most participants and observers agreed that the U.N. talks needed to send a strong signal that countries were willing to set bolder targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists say global emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants have to start falling rapidly as soon as possible to meet the Paris goal of keeping global warming by the end of the century well below 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally 1.5 degrees Celsius. European Union countries responded to public pressure this week by agreeing to a long-term goal of cutting the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero, meaning any that remain will be offset with carbon reduction measures.

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Protesters gather at U.N. climate talks in global day of action as progress on a deal slows
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Protesters gather at U.N. climate talks in global day of action as progress on a deal slows

LA Times  

Activists demonstrate against fossil fuels at the COP29 U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday. “We are dragging our feet as a planet.” A letter signed by former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former U.N. climate secretary Christiana Figueres and former Irish President Mary Robinson called for “a fundamental overhaul of the COP.” “We need a shift from negotiation …

Climate talks in Bonn ahead of COP28 inspire little optimism
1 year, 7 months ago

Climate talks in Bonn ahead of COP28 inspire little optimism

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 07, 2023 16:53 IST - 6 MINS READ Diplomats from around the globe are meeting in the German city of Bonn starting June 5 to hash out plans that are key to global efforts to stop the planet heating and adapt to violent weather. “The thing that’s different about Bonn is that the politicians aren’t there—or very …

COP27 Climate Talks Reach Crunch Time with Big Rifts Remaining
2 years, 1 month ago

COP27 Climate Talks Reach Crunch Time with Big Rifts Remaining

News 18  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged world governments to “stand and deliver” a strong climate deal at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Thursday as negotiators remained far apart on key issues a day before the agreement’s deadline. The world is watching and has a simple message: stand and deliver.” “We are at crunch time in the negotiations.” The first draft …

Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27?

The Hindu  

The story so far: After the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change of 2015, the focus is on voluntary national actions to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in average global temperature to well below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C as possible by the end of the century. But the scientific community is losing …

COP26: Climate negotiators seek to resolve four key challenges at Glasgow
3 years, 2 months ago

COP26: Climate negotiators seek to resolve four key challenges at Glasgow

India Today  

As this year’s UN climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Laurent Fabius, the former French foreign minister who helped forge the Paris climate accord, said the general atmosphere had improved since the talks began Oct. 31 and “most negotiators want an agreement.” But negotiators were still struggling to put together a series …

COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow amid acrimony
3 years, 2 months ago

COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow amid acrimony

Al Jazeera  

World leaders have begun arriving at a United Nations conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of the climate crisis, their challenge made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree to ambitious new commitments. The COP26 conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday comes a day after G20 big economies failed to …

COP-26 is our last best hope, says president Alok Sharma opening the climate summit
3 years, 2 months ago

COP-26 is our last best hope, says president Alok Sharma opening the climate summit

Firstpost  

The Indian-origin cabinet minister called upon more than 120 world leaders gathered for the World Leaders’ Summit to do their bit for the planet Glasgow: The COP26 summit is “our last best hope” to agree on implementing the Paris Agreement, which limits the rise in global temperatures and keeps the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius alive, summit President Alok Sharma …

Two-week long COP26 climate meet formally opens in Glasgow
3 years, 2 months ago

Two-week long COP26 climate meet formally opens in Glasgow

The Hindu  

The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has formally opened, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global warming. Following Sunday’s opening gavel, officials began addressing a raft of procedural matters before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland’s biggest city Monday to lay out their countries’ …

COP26: World gathers amid calls to avert climate disaster
3 years, 2 months ago

COP26: World gathers amid calls to avert climate disaster

Al Jazeera  

COP26 aims to keep alive a target of capping global warming at 1.5C, amid warnings of disastrous climate catastrophe. COP26 president Alok Sharma opened the two-week summit saying the talks were “last, best hope” to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C alive. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged world leaders attending the UN climate change conference in …

EU chief calls for leadership at climate ‘moment of truth’
3 years, 2 months ago

EU chief calls for leadership at climate ‘moment of truth’

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s chief executive called Thursday for a show of climate leadership ahead of two major international meetings focused on curbing global warming, warning that world leaders face “a moment of truth.” “What we need is, first of all, leadership,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said before she heads to a weekend summit in Rome …

World leaders head to Scotland for global climate talks. Here’s what you need to know
3 years, 2 months ago

World leaders head to Scotland for global climate talks. Here’s what you need to know

LA Times  

Cyclists take part in Ride the Change in London, a 475-mile, seven-and-a-half day journey ending in Glasgow, Scotland, just as the U.N. climate conference, COP26, begins. Leaders come to COP with their own ambitions, but the summit’s overarching goal this time is to build off the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which requires countries to report on their progress cutting emissions …

COP26 will decide the direction of the fight against global warming: Here’s what needs to go right – Firstpost
3 years, 2 months ago

COP26 will decide the direction of the fight against global warming: Here’s what needs to go right – Firstpost

Firstpost  

progress can be slow because global climate talks involve people from all around the globe with different interests, preferences, and mandates. After all, it was the COP in Paris that tasked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to provide a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. Major emitters will also need to support …

Prince Charles warns of narrow window to face climate change
3 years, 2 months ago

Prince Charles warns of narrow window to face climate change

Associated Press  

LONDON — Prince Charles issued a warning to the world days before leaders gather in the U.K. for crucial United Nations climate talks, saying there is a “dangerously narrow” window to tackle global warning. The heir to the British throne said Saturday that the summit, which starts Oct. 31 in Glasgow, showed that “after far too long,” climate change and …

COP25 'lost opportunity' as it ends with no deal, no targets to cut greenhouse gases
5 years ago

COP25 'lost opportunity' as it ends with no deal, no targets to cut greenhouse gases

Firstpost  

The negotiators left the issue of how to deal with carbon emissions until COP26 in Glasgow, next year. The longest UN climate talks ended here on Sunday with no deal on carbon markets as delegates from almost 200 countries failed to come up with more ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases to fulfil the terms of the 2015 Paris agreement, …

Disappointment as marathon climate talks end with slim deal
5 years ago

Disappointment as marathon climate talks end with slim deal

Associated Press  

MADRID — Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls for ramping up efforts to keep global warming at bay and negotiators postponed debate about rules for international carbon markets for another year. Chile’s Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, who chaired the meeting, said she was “sad” no deal had …

COP25 was meant to tackle the climate crisis. It fell short
5 years, 1 month ago

COP25 was meant to tackle the climate crisis. It fell short

CNN  

CNN — The message from climate activists was passionate, the warning from the scientific community and countries already experiencing the effects of climate change, urgent. She added that, “after forcing negotiators to keep at it for three days straight,” the world’s biggest carbon emitters and fossil fuel industry “got what they wanted – a weakened text that kicks most of …

COP25: Madrid climate meet shows discord at critical juncture
5 years, 1 month ago

COP25: Madrid climate meet shows discord at critical juncture

Firstpost  

The 25th Conference of Parties which formally ended on 13 Friday, December, had an important agenda intended to take forward the world’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restrict global warming to under 1.5◦C. Under the Paris Agreement, which the US signed on to after many a presidential nudge from Barack Obama, thus, the whole idea of ‘common but …

As climate crisis rages, COP fails to deliver
5 years, 1 month ago

As climate crisis rages, COP fails to deliver

Hindustan Times  

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid hasn’t delivered much on countering climate change. According to Harjeet Singh, global lead on climate change for ActionAid, the US has urged that paragraph 51 of Article 8 COP21 decision which led to the Paris Agreement be invoked again with reference to compensation for loss and damage. It would have, however, added …

COP25 climate summit to focus on fresh climate action
5 years, 1 month ago

COP25 climate summit to focus on fresh climate action

The Quint  

Madrid, Dec 2 The COP25 climate summit, slated to begin here on Monday, was expected to lay the groundwork for a new phase of environmental action. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and Chilean Environment Minister and chair of the summit, Carolina Schmidt, among others, were scheduled …

COP25: Climate summit kicks off as Guterres issues stark warning
5 years, 1 month ago

COP25: Climate summit kicks off as Guterres issues stark warning

Al Jazeera  

UN chief says world risks ‘sleepwalking past point of no return’ unless immediate action is taken on climate change. They know we need to get on the right path today, not tomorrow, and COP25 offers us an opportunity.” The required global reduction of carbon emissions has more than doubled from 3.3 percent 10 years ago to seven percent now, he …

COP24 climate talks see pleas from small island nations for urgent climate action
6 years, 1 month ago

COP24 climate talks see pleas from small island nations for urgent climate action

Firstpost  

Ministers from nations imperilled by rising seas and temperatures on Tuesday called for drastic action at UN climate talks deadlocked over a refusal by big polluters to embrace landmark environmental data. The talks were thrown into tumult over the weekend when the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait blocked a proposal from 44 small island nations for the UN …

COP24 2018: Failure at climate talks would be ‘suicidal’
6 years, 1 month ago

COP24 2018: Failure at climate talks would be ‘suicidal’

CNN  

Katowice, Poland CNN — The heads of state for some of the main countries causing climate change – the United States, the UK, Germany, China, Canada and India among them – are not present here in Poland to try to keep the wheels from falling off an agreement meant to save humanity and the planet. “There is no political argument …

Live: COP24 2018 climate conference
6 years, 1 month ago

Live: COP24 2018 climate conference

CNN  

The Trump Administration’s refusal to “welcome” the results of a major scientific report on climate change is seen as a sticking point at the COP24 climate change talks in Poland, which are still in overtime without resolution. At issue is a report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says drastic cuts to fossil fuel and other carbon …

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