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COP26: As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up

India Today  

Poor nations are pressuring their wealthy counterparts at the U.N. climate summit to pay up for the mounting damage being caused by global warming, pointing to increasing powerful storms, cyclones, droughts and floods afflicting their people. A study commissioned by development agency Christian Aid, meanwhile, estimated that climate damage could cost vulnerable countries a fifth of their gross domestic product …

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COP26 should listen to small states and island nations at risk
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26 should listen to small states and island nations at risk

Al Jazeera  

This week, world leaders are gathered in Glasgow to define the next 30 years of our response to the climate crisis. Currently, only 2 percent of international finance available actually reaches small island nations, even as they grapple with the worst of climate change, including sea level rise and increasingly frequent and disastrous weather, with dire socioeconomic consequences. To help …

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COP26 summit | Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26 summit | Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal

The Hindu  

Several major coal-using nations have pledged for the first time to phase out their use of the heavily-polluting fossil fuel or to speed up existing plans to do so, while others announced commitments to end investment in new coal-fired power plants. U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said on Wednesday that the commitments made on the sidelines of the U.N. climate …

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opens COP26 climate conference with dire warning
3 years, 1 month ago

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opens COP26 climate conference with dire warning

ABC  

The planet will face "doomsday" if world leaders do not pull off a "James-Bond" victory, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told the official opening ceremony of the COP26 leaders summit. Key points: More than 100 world leaders have gathered for the UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland UK PM Boris Johnson told delegates the world was at …

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Scott Morrison, at COP26, pledges funding to support neighbouring Pacific, Asian nations dealing with climate change
3 years, 1 month ago

Scott Morrison, at COP26, pledges funding to support neighbouring Pacific, Asian nations dealing with climate change

ABC  

Pacific Island leaders at the Glasgow climate conference have pressed Scott Morrison to make sharper cuts to Australia's emissions this decade as they grapple with the impacts of global warming. Key points: Australia's funding for neighbouring nations will increase to $2 billion over the next five years Scott Morrison told the conference technology would be crucial to achieving net zero …

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CoP26 summit | India will achieve net zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi
3 years, 1 month ago

CoP26 summit | India will achieve net zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi

The Hindu  

India will achieve net zero emissions latest by 2070, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on Monday. Until Monday, India was the only major emitter that hadn't committed to a timeline to achieve net zero, or a year by which it would ensure its net carbon dioxide emissions would be zero. Mr. Modi's statements were …

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Brazil pledges 50 percent emissions cut by 2030 in change of tone
3 years, 1 month ago

Brazil pledges 50 percent emissions cut by 2030 in change of tone

Al Jazeera  

Environmentalist says Brazil is attempting to rebuild goodwill amid global outrage about deforestation in the Amazon. Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 9.5 percent in 2020, according to a study released last week Deforestation, which hit a 12-year high in Brazil’s Amazon in 2020, is the biggest source of the country’s emissions. Brazil’s Environment Minister Joaquim Leite said on Monday the …

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As PM Modi Heads To COP26, Why India's Batting For 'Climate Justice' to Beat Global Warming
3 years, 1 month ago

As PM Modi Heads To COP26, Why India's Batting For 'Climate Justice' to Beat Global Warming

News 18  

PM Narendra Modi will be in attendance as the crucial COP26 climate summit gets underway in Glasgow from October 31, where India is expected to make a strong pitch for “climate justice” and showcase the steps it has taken to do its bit for keeping global temperature rise in check. Ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties to the UN …

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EXPLAINED: 'Net Zero', $100Bn Fund, What Will Be India's Focus At Glasgow COP26 Climate Meet?
3 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINED: 'Net Zero', $100Bn Fund, What Will Be India's Focus At Glasgow COP26 Climate Meet?

News 18  

India is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Further, pointing to India’s progress on renewables — the country is looking to generate 450GW by 2030 — PM Narendra Modi had said in August this year that “today, India is the only country in the group of G20 countries, which is moving fast towards achieving its climate goals", adding that …

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Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high last year, UN reports ahead of Glasgow COP26 climate summit
3 years, 1 month ago

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high last year, UN reports ahead of Glasgow COP26 climate summit

ABC  

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is "way off track" on capping rising temperatures, the United Nations says, ahead of climate talks in Glasgow aimed at averting dangerous levels of global warming. Key points: UN seeks "dramatic increase" in climate commitments Australia is expected to formally approve a target of net zero by 2050 UK …

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Australian prime minister will take net zero target to COP26
3 years, 1 month ago

Australian prime minister will take net zero target to COP26

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia will commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not increase its goal for 2030 at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Scotland, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday. Morrison’s conservative Liberal Party-led government was narrowly re-elected in 2019 with a climate policy that opposed the 2050 net zero target adopted …

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Mitigating a crisis: The Hindu Editorial on COP26 Glasgow climate meet
3 years, 2 months ago

Mitigating a crisis: The Hindu Editorial on COP26 Glasgow climate meet

The Hindu  

In a week, heads of state from at least 120 countries are expected to convene in Glasgow for the 26th meeting of the United Nations Conference of the Parties. The year 2020 was to have been an important year in the COP calendar as most of the major economies were expected to review the actions undertaken so far in meeting …

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Scott Morrison to attend COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, no decision on net zero
3 years, 2 months ago

Scott Morrison to attend COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, no decision on net zero

ABC  

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed he will attend the United Nations COP26 international climate conference in Glasgow in November. Key points: It was unclear whether Mr Morrison or another government representative would go to the conference Prince Charles and other world leaders had urged him to attend in person The government has still not struck a deal on whether …

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COP-26 will not lead to anything unless there is pressure on leaders: Thunberg
3 years, 2 months ago

COP-26 will not lead to anything unless there is pressure on leaders: Thunberg

India Today  

For climate activist Greta Thunberg, success at the upcoming U.N. climate conference would come only if world leaders honestly admit that their action is not living up to their words. "We are so, so far behind what would be needed," the 18-year-old told Reuters in an interview at the kitchen table of her two-bedroom Stockholm apartment on Wednesday evening, after …

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More than five billion people could have difficulty accessing water in 2050 says UN report
3 years, 2 months ago

More than five billion people could have difficulty accessing water in 2050 says UN report

Firstpost  

Most of the flood-related deaths and economic losses were recorded in Asia, where river flood warning systems require strengthening, said the WMO. More than five billion people could have difficulty accessing water in 2050, the United Nations warned Tuesday, urging leaders to seize the initiative at the COP26 summit. Already in 2018, 3.6 billion people had inadequate access to water …

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Why Greta Thunberg is right to be angry
3 years, 2 months ago

Why Greta Thunberg is right to be angry

Live Mint  

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been in the news this week. We’re just a month away from one of the most crucial international climate summits since Paris 2015, the COP26, and the strong indications are that it will end in failure. If ‘failure’ is a strong word, it’s also a true one, because UN officials are resigned to not being …

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China, US deal on climate change fails before COP26: report
3 years, 3 months ago

China, US deal on climate change fails before COP26: report

Al Jazeera  

Beijing rebuffs US proposal to accelerate climate efforts, including public commitment to stop financing of coal-fired power plants. “China already has its own plans and road map for achieving its climate goals,” Chinese leaders told US climate envoy John Kerry, the report quoted a source as saying. Li Shuo, a senior global policy adviser for Greenpeace East Asia, told SCMP …

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Climate science report ‘critical for success’ of COP26: UN
3 years, 4 months ago

Climate science report ‘critical for success’ of COP26: UN

The Hindu  

Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations on Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale. Another milestone since the last IPCC tome: the Paris Agreement has been adopted, with a collective promise to cap the planet’s rising surface temperature at “well below” two degrees Celsius above late-19th …

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