Articles for Climate Pact

Climate pact withdrawal breaks trust in US
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Climate pact withdrawal breaks trust in US

China Daily  

This year will see countries finalize their national plans to meet their emissions reduction targets by 2035, the focus of this November's COP30 global climate talks in Brazil. The United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement that the new US administration announced on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump began his second term has therefore undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow …

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COP27: A Year On From Glasgow Climate Pact, The World Is Burning More Fossil Fuels Than Ever
2 years, 4 months ago

COP27: A Year On From Glasgow Climate Pact, The World Is Burning More Fossil Fuels Than Ever

ABP News  

The burning of fossil fuels caused 86 per cent of all CO₂ emissions during the past ten years. The ongoing energy crisis – and the short-term responses to it by governments around the world – have made it more difficult to meet the pact’s goals of ending the dominance of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels at COP27 US and European allies …

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Penny Wong to visit New Zealand, Solomon Islands amid concern over climate change, China security pact
2 years, 9 months ago

Penny Wong to visit New Zealand, Solomon Islands amid concern over climate change, China security pact

ABC  

Foreign Minister Penny Wong will travel to New Zealand and Solomon Islands this week to discuss climate change and regional security in what will be her third visit to the Pacific since being sworn in last month. Key points: Senator Wong will meet her Wellington counterpart Nanaia Mahuta on Thursday On Friday she will visit Honiara to meet Solomon Islands …

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After the Solomon Islands security pact and Lambie's Medevac deal, does the government have any political ammo left?
2 years, 11 months ago

After the Solomon Islands security pact and Lambie's Medevac deal, does the government have any political ammo left?

ABC  

It was September 2015 and the then Immigration minister Peter Dutton was waiting for a meeting to start at Parliament House, with then prime minister Tony Abbott and then Social Services minister Scott Morrison. Dutton's comments — reflecting a spectacular disdain for the existential threat many Pacific nations feel from climate change — came to mind on Friday. On morning …

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Watered-down hope: Experts wanted more from COP26 climate pact
3 years, 4 months ago

Watered-down hope: Experts wanted more from COP26 climate pact

Live Mint  

While world leaders and negotiators are hailing the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, many scientists are wondering what planet these leaders are looking at. “In the bigger picture I think, yes, we have a good plan to keep the 1.5-degree goal within our possibilities,” United Nations climate chief Patricia Espinosa told …

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COP26 Wrap: Are India & China Really Responsible for the Watered-Down Pact?
3 years, 4 months ago

COP26 Wrap: Are India & China Really Responsible for the Watered-Down Pact?

The Quint  

The COP26 summit, one of the largest international events since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, was held in Glasgow in the backdrop of a looming climate emergency. Given the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to take action on “carbon, cars, cash and trees”, switching away from fossil fuel cars is an important step towards net-zero. My friend Surina …

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Glasgow Climate Pact: Five things you need to know about the UN COP26 deal
3 years, 4 months ago

Glasgow Climate Pact: Five things you need to know about the UN COP26 deal

Firstpost  

From phasing out coal to carbon market loopholes, here are the highlights of the finally signed Glasgow Climate Pact, which brought together 197 countries in a fight against climate change London: The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. If the 2015 Paris …

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Glasgow climate pact mentions 1.5 degree goal but weak on equity and finance
3 years, 4 months ago

Glasgow climate pact mentions 1.5 degree goal but weak on equity and finance

Hindustan Times  

The Glasgow Climate Pact was adopted by 196 parties at the Glasgow climate change conference on Saturday evening. The original text was: “Calls upon Parties to accelerate the development, deployment and dissemination of technologies, and the adoption of policies, to transition towards low-emission energy systems,including by rapidly scaling up the deployment of clean power generation and energy efficiency measures, including …

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Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron look past differences on Paris climate pact during visit
7 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron look past differences on Paris climate pact during visit

ABC  

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have set aside lingering differences on climate change during their meeting in France, asserting that it should not prevent them from working together toward a post-war roadmap for Syria and to enhance Mideast security. Key points: The two got off to a bumpy start this year but appeared intent on moving …

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Donald Trump pulls out of Paris climate pact: Loopholes in the US president’s claims
7 years, 9 months ago

Donald Trump pulls out of Paris climate pact: Loopholes in the US president’s claims

Hindustan Times  

Announcing that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for his decision. A look at some of the claims in a Rose Garden speech and an accompanying fact sheet about the deal to curtail emissions responsible for global warming: A …

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Trump gives the world more reasons to save our planet
7 years, 9 months ago

Trump gives the world more reasons to save our planet

China Daily  

US President Donald Trump walks with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. Yet it doesn't take rocket science to fathom that US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate change agreement makes the future of concerted global action against climate change uncertain. By ordering …

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Major US companies call on Donald Trump with one message: 'Don't quit Paris climate pact'
8 years, 4 months ago

Major US companies call on Donald Trump with one message: 'Don't quit Paris climate pact'

Firstpost  

More than 360, mostly American companies and investors, including a dozen Fortune 500 firms, called Wednesday on Donald Trump to uphold the 196-nation Paris climate pact. An open letter released at high-level UN climate talks in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh called on the US president-elect to back “continued US participation in the Paris Agreement, in order to provide the …

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Paris climate pact to enter into force on Nov. 4
8 years, 5 months ago

Paris climate pact to enter into force on Nov. 4

The Hindu  

The Paris Agreement on climate change will enter into force on November 4 as enough countries have signed onto the landmark accord to bring it to the emissions threshold that will trigger its implementation, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said. India, the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, had ratified the Paris climate agreement on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary …

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Brexit May Deliver a Fatal Punch to the Paris Climate Pact
8 years, 8 months ago

Brexit May Deliver a Fatal Punch to the Paris Climate Pact

The Quint  

Till now, 177 member states have signed the Paris agreement but only 17 have ratified it through their national legal process. The 17 Parties – nearly all of them small island countries – that have ratified the pact represent only 0.04 percent of the total global GHG emissions. But the scenario after Brexit – as of today the yes-no votes …

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Change of Guard 100 Days Into Paris Climate Pact
8 years, 11 months ago

Change of Guard 100 Days Into Paris Climate Pact

The Quint  

US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Washington some days ago and signed a joint statement reiterating their resolve to fight climate change, adding that both the countries “must and will play a leadership role internationally in the low carbon global economy over the coming decades”. Canada is the only country that ratified and then …

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Climate change actions must respect rights, equity: Paris pact
9 years, 3 months ago

Climate change actions must respect rights, equity: Paris pact

The Hindu  

The preamble to the Agreement states that climate change is a common concern of humankind, and when countries take action, they must respect, promote and consider their obligations on human rights, right to health, rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations, the right to development, gender equality, empowerment of women and …

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