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Why the COP27 climate summit has to be about climate justice
2 years, 2 months ago

Why the COP27 climate summit has to be about climate justice

Live Mint  

In less than a month, the world’s governments will gather in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt for COP27, a crucial summit on climate change. This is a time when there needs to be complete unity of purpose among the 198 countries that are members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In fact, the rich countries—which account for an …

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Amazon deforestation in Brazil surges to 15-year high
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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Infographic: What has your country pledged at COP26?
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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COP26: Climate negotiators seek to resolve four key challenges at Glasgow
3 years, 1 month 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 …

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Prince William meets Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos at COP26 climate conference in Glasgow
3 years, 1 month ago

Prince William meets Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos at COP26 climate conference in Glasgow

Daily Mail  

Prince William has met Amazon chief Jeff Bezos at the Cop26 summit, days after urging space race billionaires to focus their minds and money on fixing planet Earth. The comments, made in an interview with BBC Newscast's Adam Fleming at Kensington Palace, came hours after Bezos blasted Star Trek's William Shatner into space aboard his Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. …

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CoP26 summit | Leaders pledge to cut methane and save forests
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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COP26: World leaders back deal to end deforestation by 2030
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: World leaders back deal to end deforestation by 2030

Hindustan Times  

UK prime minister Boris Johnson's office made the announcement on behalf of the leaders. Leaders of more than 100 countries pledged late Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, according to the COP26 chair of the United Kingdom. British prime minister Boris Johnson said the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land …

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COP26: More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030

Al Jazeera  

Agreement is underpinned by $19bn in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. We also need to connect all the dots all the way to the ground, to engage communities and Indigenous communities in solutions.” Monday’s agreement vastly expands a similar commitment made by 40 countries as part of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests …

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Which countries, blocs are major players at the COP26 summit?
3 years, 1 month ago

Which countries, blocs are major players at the COP26 summit?

Live Mint  

The diverse interests among the 197 signatories to the U.N. It returns this year to U.N. climate talks, after former President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement and eschewed global efforts to curb emissions. LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES This group represents the world's 46 poorest nations, whose 1 billion citizens across Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean …

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COP26 summit: India's climate destiny depends upon negotiations in Glasgow
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26 summit: India's climate destiny depends upon negotiations in Glasgow

Business Standard  

COP26 summit: India's climate destiny depends upon negotiations in Glasgow The country's climate negotiators at Glasgow will have to strike a balance between development needs and global pressures to do more Premium The developed economies led by the US pledged $100 billion in climate financing for the developing countries to shift to a low-carbon future and fund their climate mitigation …

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