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Cop26 agreement: Is the world any closer to meeting the 1.5C global temperature rise target?

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow has entered its final days after almost two weeks …

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COP26: How a dispute over coal nearly sank the Glasgow Climate Pact

India Today

It was very nearly a diplomatic disaster. Alok Sharma, the president of the U.N. climate conference in Scotland, had convened the final meeting of representatives from nearly 200 countries to deliver the Glasgow Climate Pact, a deal meant to ensure the world still has a chance to avert the worst impacts of global warming. China, India, and other developing nations …

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COP26 wraps with nations agreeing to deal aimed at averting climate catastrophe

India Today

UN climate talks in Scotland ended with a global agreement that aimed at least to keep alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and so maintain a realistic chance of saving the world from catastrophic climate change. The overarching aim set by conference host Britain was one that climate campaigners and vulnerable countries had found far too …

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COP26 climate deal includes historic reference to fossil fuels but doesn’t meet urgency of the crisis

CNN

Glasgow, Scotland CNN — Nearly 200 nations reached a climate agreement on Saturday at COP26 with an unprecedented reference to the role of fossil fuels in the climate crisis, even after an 11th-hour objection from India that watered down the language around reducing the use of coal. He orally made India’s requested amendment, changing the text to a phasing “down” …

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Cop26: What has been achieved and agreed by leaders at the climate summit?

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The main goal of Cop26 – and its unofficial strapline – is to “keep 1.5 alive”, meaning countries must …

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COP26: 'Two realities' for climate delegates at Glasgow conference

The Hindu

November 8 was a typical day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. "The end of coal power is now within sight," declared COP26 president Alok Sharma on November 3 after a coalition of 190 countries, regions and organizations agreed to phase out coal energy. From the G20 group, which met right before the climate summit, there have been …

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Latrobe Valley coal community already looking to future as COP26 delegates discuss end of fossil fuel

ABC

It is 17,335 kilometres from Glasgow to the brown-coal-powered electricity generators of Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. Chief executive Karen Cain said with its strong networks and relationships, her local team had helped the process along with "latitude" to try unproven things. G7 agrees to stop financing fossil fuel projects Photo shows Coal train The world's seven largest advanced economies …

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Explained: Important terms and issues from UNFCC's COP26 summit you need to know

Firstpost

The Paris accord set a target for limiting global warming but left it up to each country to submit its own emissions reduction targets, known as Nationally Determined Contributions. The U.N. climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. NDCs The Paris accord …

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Greta Thunberg draws thousands to Glasgow for COP26 youth protest

CNN

Glasgow CNN — Greta Thunberg criticized world leaders and called the COP26 summit a “failure” on Friday, as she led a huge youth protest outside the venue of the climate summit in Glasgow. Young Filipino climate advocate Jan Karmel Guillermo told crowds the summit was a “crucial moment” in the climate crisis. Thunberg spoke to protesters more than three years …

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COP26: 5 climate takeaways from Day 3 of the Glasgow talks

CNN

CNN — As world leaders left Glasgow, delegates at COP26 rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work. The financing deal “represents a change in norms that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago,” Iskander Erzini Vernoit, a climate finance expert at think tank E3G, told CNN. “We’ve seen this go from the niche frontier concepts to …

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Cop26 road closures: How climate change summit will affect travel in Glasgow

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Planned road closures around Glasgow’s SEC during the summit The following timings for closures have been announced: Congress Road: …

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Boris Johnson talks up COP26 climate deals but stumbles on Attenborough mask controversy

CNN

Glasgow, Scotland CNN — Boris Johnson said he had been humbled to hear the stories of countries on the front lines of the climate crisis and hailed some of the early agreements announced so far at the COP26 summit in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Speaking to CNN on the sidelines of talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the …

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer mocked for reporting on Cop26 from Edinburgh – as conference gets under way in Glasgow

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Appearing to confuse Scotland’s two biggest cities on Monday, Mr Blitzer tweeted an image of himself in front of …

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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 …

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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 …

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Cop26: Activists heckle ‘hypocrite’ Alok Sharma at youth climate event

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Activists have interrupted a speech by Alok Sharma, the government minister who is president of …

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COP26 begins: PM Modi to launch 2 key initiatives, says Indian envoy to UK

India Today

The 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change kicked off on Sunday in Scotland's Glasgow and will conclude on November 12. On Sunday, India's High Commissioner to UK Gaitri Issar Kumar said that PM Modi would be launching two important initiatives under the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and the International Solar Alliance. At …

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Infographic: Who is attending COP26?

Al Jazeera

Leaders from around the world and other notable figures set to meet in Glasgow to discuss climate crisis. World leaders, leading scientists and environmental activists will converge this week in Glasgow, Scotland, for the 26th Conference of Parties, an annual event focused on issues related to the climate crisis and global emissions. This year’s conference comes a few months after …

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Cop26 agreement: Is the world any closer to meeting the 1.5C global temperature rise target?

COP26: How a dispute over coal nearly sank the Glasgow Climate Pact

COP26 wraps with nations agreeing to deal aimed at averting climate catastrophe

COP26 climate deal includes historic reference to fossil fuels but doesn’t meet urgency of the crisis

Cop26: What has been achieved and agreed by leaders at the climate summit?

COP26: 'Two realities' for climate delegates at Glasgow conference

Latrobe Valley coal community already looking to future as COP26 delegates discuss end of fossil fuel

Explained: Important terms and issues from UNFCC's COP26 summit you need to know

Greta Thunberg draws thousands to Glasgow for COP26 youth protest

COP26: 5 climate takeaways from Day 3 of the Glasgow talks

Cop26 road closures: How climate change summit will affect travel in Glasgow

Boris Johnson talks up COP26 climate deals but stumbles on Attenborough mask controversy

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer mocked for reporting on Cop26 from Edinburgh – as conference gets under way in Glasgow

COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow amid acrimony

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

Cop26: Activists heckle ‘hypocrite’ Alok Sharma at youth climate event

COP26 begins: PM Modi to launch 2 key initiatives, says Indian envoy to UK

Infographic: Who is attending COP26?