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Ukraine war: COP26, IEA heads warn of digging in on fossil fuels

Alok Sharma and Fatih Birol say they are hopeful the global hydrocarbon crisis could spur a transition to green energy. “If you do so, we will lock in our energy infrastructure and the chances of reaching our climate goals, which were once again agreed to and endorsed in Glasgow, will be diminishing substantially.” Those COP26 pledges include a pact to …

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3 years ago

‘Declaration of war’: Pacific islands blast COP26 pledges

Al Jazeera

Nations most vulnerable to climate change say rich world must step up, meet goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5C. It was the Pacific’s expectation that this would be firmly and irreversibly secured in Glasgow,” Satyendra Prasad, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in New York told Al Jazeera. It is that simple – period.” In …

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3 years, 1 month ago

SNL satirises lacklustre Cop26 with ‘hot and pissed’ Mother Earth

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Saturday Night Live marked the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Cop26 agreement: What’s in the final text?

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. Countries ‘requested’ to set tougher 2030 climate plans A crucial element of the new deal is a request for …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Amazon deforestation in Brazil surges to 15-year high

Al Jazeera

Space research agency findings come after the Brazilian government at the COP26 climate summit pledged to end illegal deforestation by 2028. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest soared 22 percent in one year to the highest level since 2006, according to the government’s annual report, undercutting President Jair Bolsonaro’s assurances that the country is curbing illegal logging. At the United Nations …

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3 years, 1 month ago

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

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 The Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow has entered its final days after almost two weeks …

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3 years, 1 month ago

U.K. PM says COP26 climate deal 'tinged with disappointment'

The Hindu

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed a global accord to speed up action against climate change as "truly historic" and "the beginning of the end for coal power". But he said his "delight at this progress" at the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow was "tinged with disappointment" because of a failure to secure the agreement of all countries …

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3 years, 1 month ago

UK PM Boris Johnson Hails Big Step Forward' with COP26 Deal

News 18

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the deal struck at the end of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow as a big step forward and the first-ever international agreement to phase down the use of coal. His statement followed an agreement between nearly 200 countries on a final communique late on Saturday, which recognises India’s intervention for the world …

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3 years, 1 month ago

What do the Cop26 deals mean for you?

The Telegraph

Cop26 has come to a close. But we are still reliant on gas to heat our homes and generate electricity, and recently prices have been rising because wind turbines have not produced as much power as usual, as well as because of pressure on supplies due to last year’s cold winter and demand from Asia for liquefied natural gas. To …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Infographic: What has your country pledged at COP26?

Al Jazeera

With the annual climate change summit over, what have world leaders achieved at COP26? Saturday’s Glasgow Climate Pact is the first climate package to directly reference coal and fossil fuels, although many countries were angered by a last-minute change to the text replacing the call to phase “out” the use of coal with a call to phase it “down”. Phasing …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Boris Johnson: Cop26 has sounded the death knell for coal

The Telegraph

Cop26 has sounded the “death knell” for coal, the Prime Minister has said, as he defended the deal against charges it had been significantly watered down after last-minute concessions to China and India. The Prime Minister said it was impossible for the UK to force big polluters to cut their emissions, but insisted that the change in wording from “phasing …

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3 years, 1 month ago

UK’s biggest carbon emitter Drax ‘greenwashing’ wood-fired power at Cop26, campaigners say

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 Campaigners at Cop26 have accused energy giant Drax, which runs the biggest wood-burning power station …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at COP26

The Hindu

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupendra Yadav says rich countries have “an obligation, responsibility, duty and a vow” to provide climate finance to developing nations and should deliver on an unfulfilled promise to raise $100 billion a year. “Because if there is any gap that remains it is in the action for climate finance.” Mr. Yadav heads the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

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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3 years, 1 month ago

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Indian minister at COP26

Associated Press

GLASGOW, Scotland — India’s environment and climate minister says rich countries have “an obligation, responsibility, duty and a vow” to provide climate finance to developing nations and should deliver on an unfulfilled promise to raise $100 billion a year. A draft deal under negotiation noted “with regret” that rich nations had failed to meet their promise to provide $100 billion …

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3 years, 1 month ago

The COP26 deal will not be enough to end SA’s coal addiction

Al Jazeera

While the deal is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, the amount offered is nowhere near sufficient to ease South Africa’s concerns about decarbonisation. Mantashe, who previously described giving up coal as “economic suicide” and a threat to South Africa’s energy security, did not meet the climate envoys during their visit to the country. But with South Africa descending …

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3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: How realistic is Bangladesh's climate prosperity plan?

The Hindu

At the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on wealthy nations to fulfill their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and provide the promised $100 billion annually in financial aid to less wealthy countries to help them adapt to climate change and mitigate further rises in temperature. "The impact of climate change on countries …

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3 years, 1 month ago

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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3 years, 1 month ago

As COP26 Vows to End Deforestation, a Lesson Closer Home From Odisha’s Nayagarh

The Quint

On 2 November 2021, fourteen community rights and community forest resource rights titles from twenty-four villages in Nayagarh district were approved by the Odisha government under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. One, the nature of the titles is such that two or three villages ‘jointly’ hold the title, a first in the country, as possibly …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Boris Johnson poised to trigger Article 16 but will hold fire during Cop26 summit

The Telegraph

Article 16 will not be triggered by the Government during the Cop26 climate change summit, which ends next week, despite EU fears that action is imminent. The mechanism, which would see the UK attempt to unilaterally suspend parts of the Brexit agreement over Northern Ireland, could be used near the end of this month at the earliest, according to UK …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Steny Hoyer introduces $9 billion bill to meet Biden’s COP26 deforestation pledge

CNN

CNN — After President Joe Biden entered the US into a global pledge at COP26 to end and reverse deforestation, a top Democrat in the House introduced a bill Wednesday to put financial weight behind Biden’s commitment. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s legislation would establish a $9 billion trust fund at the US State Department to finance bilateral forest conservation …

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3 years, 1 month ago

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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3 years, 1 month ago

CoP26 summit | Leaders pledge to cut methane and save forests

The Hindu

Leaders at the CoP26 global climate conference in Glasgow have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change. Surangel Whipps Jr, president of Palau, a Pacific state of500 low-lying islands under threat from rising sea levels, told the leaders of the G20 industrial powers …

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3 years, 1 month ago

World leaders at COP26 will pledge multibillion-dollars to end world's deforestation by 2030

Firstpost

The signatories include Brazil and Russia, which have been singled out for accelerating deforestation in their territories, as well as the United States, China, Australia and France. World leaders meeting at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow will on Tuesday issue a multibillion-dollar pledge to end deforestation by 2030 but that date is too distant for campaigners who want action …

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Ukraine war: COP26, IEA heads warn of digging in on fossil fuels

‘Declaration of war’: Pacific islands blast COP26 pledges

SNL satirises lacklustre Cop26 with ‘hot and pissed’ Mother Earth

Cop26 agreement: What’s in the final text?

Amazon deforestation in Brazil surges to 15-year high

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

U.K. PM says COP26 climate deal 'tinged with disappointment'

UK PM Boris Johnson Hails Big Step Forward' with COP26 Deal

What do the Cop26 deals mean for you?

Infographic: What has your country pledged at COP26?

Boris Johnson: Cop26 has sounded the death knell for coal

UK’s biggest carbon emitter Drax ‘greenwashing’ wood-fired power at Cop26, campaigners say

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at COP26

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

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Indian minister at COP26

The COP26 deal will not be enough to end SA’s coal addiction

COP26: How realistic is Bangladesh's climate prosperity plan?

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

As COP26 Vows to End Deforestation, a Lesson Closer Home From Odisha’s Nayagarh

Boris Johnson poised to trigger Article 16 but will hold fire during Cop26 summit

Steny Hoyer introduces $9 billion bill to meet Biden’s COP26 deforestation pledge

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

CoP26 summit | Leaders pledge to cut methane and save forests

World leaders at COP26 will pledge multibillion-dollars to end world's deforestation by 2030