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#1316902021-11-15
Infographic: What has your country pledged at COP26?
After two weeks of intense negotiations, countries have struck a climate deal at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Scotland.
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#1317022021-11-15
Egypt to host next climate summit, putting a spotlight on resilience
Egypt has said it will put a focus on resilience to climate impacts when it hosts the annual UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh next year.
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#1316152021-11-11
US-China deal on emissions welcomed by global figures and climate experts
An unexpected agreement between the US and China to work together on cutting emissions has been broadly welcomed by leaders and climate experts.
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#1316162021-11-11
Cop26: delegates negotiate over draft text to limit global heating – day 11 live
On Kenmure Street, activists from some of Glasgow’s grassroots migrant support groups have assembled to march on the nearby Home Office, with the message “climate justice equals migrant justice”.
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#1316192021-11-11
Cop26 draft criticised for lack of financial help for vulnerable countries
Developing countries at the Cop26 climate summit have called for rich nations to come forward with more financial help for vulnerable countries, saying a new draft outcome for the talks is too weak in this regard.
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#1316222021-11-11
COP26: US-China climate agreement and fossil fuel spending
There's been a cautious welcome by activists and politicians to the unexpected announcement that the US and China would work together to tackle climate change. The EU and UN say the declaration is encouraging, and an important step, while Greenpeace believes the two nations need to show greater ...
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#1316232021-11-11
Summit Seen Going to Overtime With Talks Tricky: COP26 Update
Delegates are starting to make plans for COP26 to run beyond its scheduled end on Friday evening, but Covid-related travel restrictions raise the stakes for quick action.
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#1316242021-11-11
COP26: Five takeaways as negotiators review draft climate deal
COP26 entered a new phase of negotiations on Wednesday after a first draft of the summit's final decision was circulated early this morning.
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#1316272021-11-11
Options, options: As clock ticks on, climate talks wide open
Officials from almost 200 nations worked through the night at the UN climate talks in Glasgow, trying to hammer out agreements on a range of tricky topics in time for a Friday deadline.
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#1316302021-11-11
Cop26 draft text annotated: what it says and what it means
The draft text is the most important document that will emerge from the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Unlike the last major climate conference, in Paris in 2015, what emerges here will not be a new treaty, but a series of decisions and resolutions that build on the Paris accord.
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#1316382021-11-11
Uganda's Vanessa Nakate says COP26 sidelines nations most affected by climate change
As young climate activists descended on Glasgow for the COP26 UN climate summit, Vanessa Nakate was faced with a familiar yet sad experience: Being pushed to the side.
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#1316402021-11-11
Coalition to turn adaptation research into action launches at Cop26 climate talks
The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a group of over 90 organisations from 30 economies driving research and innovation for adaptation that strengthens resilience where it is needed most.
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#1316412021-11-11
COP26: Denmark and Costa Rica launch ambitious alliance to phase out oil and gas
A "first of its kind" alliance of governments has committed to phasing out the production of oil and gas. Led by Costa Rica and Denmark, the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) saw six full members, France, Greenland, Ireland, Quebec, Sweden and Wales, announced at COP26 today.
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#1316422021-11-11
Key Cop26 pledges could put world 9% closer to 1.5C pathway
New Cop26 pledges announced on methane, coal, transport and deforestation could nudge the world 9% closer to a pathway that keeps heating to 1.5C, according to a study by the world’s most respected climate analysis coalition.
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#1316442021-11-11
COP26: UN chief calls for ambitious agreements as global warming goals on ‘life support’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) is “on life support” with climate talks in Glasgow so far not reaching any of the U.N.’s three goals, but he added that “until the last moment, hope should be maintained.”
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#1315802021-11-10
COP26: Draft deal calls for stronger carbon cutting targets by end of 2022
Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit.
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#1315812021-11-10
Waste management to take centre stage after COP26 thanks to Dettol
HUNDREDS of firms and groups across Glasgow are set to benefit from Dettol’s status as COP26's official hygiene partner – with all the event’s hand sanitiser dispensers soon to be re-distributed for free by parent firm Reckitt.
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#1315832021-11-10
Cop26 deal brings support for victims of climate disaster a step closer
A network to help the victims of climate disaster could be up and running within a year, after negotiators struck a deal at Cop26 on what its remit should be.
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#1315842021-11-10
COP26: Everything to know about the climate change summit on 10 November
Six major automakers on Wednesday will commit to phasing out the production of fossil-fuel vehicles around the world by 2040, the British government said in a statement. Volvo, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover and China's BYD are set to sign the pledge at climate talks in G ...
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#1315852021-11-10
Car firms agree at Cop26 to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040
Twenty-four countries and a group of leading car manufacturers have committed to ending the era of fossil-fuel powered vehicles by 2040 “or earlier”, in a major new commitment set at Cop26.
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#1315872021-11-10
COP26 latest: Negotiations enter new phase as draft climate deal is published
COP26 entered a new phase of negotiations on Wednesday after a first draft of the summit's final decision was circulated early this morning.
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#1315902021-11-10
China’s top Cop26 delegate says it is taking ‘real action’ on climate targets
China has detailed and concrete plans on how to meet its climate commitments, and is pushing those plans forward vigorously, unlike some countries that are “paying lip service” to their climate targets, the head of delegation for China at the Cop26 climate talks has said.
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#1315932021-11-10
COP26: How can an average family afford an electric car? And more questions
The COP26 climate summit is under way in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming. BBC News Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris answers some of your questions.
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#1315942021-11-10
Horse trading set to begin over agreement at COP26
The UK presidency team have set out an ambitious stall in their first attempt to capture progress here at COP26. As well as the specific items mentioned in the document, it also gives us a sense of how the negotiations are going more generally.
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#1316042021-11-10
Youth activists petition UN to declare ‘systemwide climate emergency’
Greta Thunberg and youth climate activists from around the world are filing a legal petition to the UN secretary-general urging him to declare a “system-wide climate emergency”.
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#1316102021-11-10
Gender equality and Indigenous people: day nine at Cop26 – in pictures
Some of the best images from the global climate summit in Scotland on Tuesday 9 November
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#1316112021-11-10
Aviation industry brings net-zero 2050 commitment to COP26
New technology aircraft and jet fuel made from waste: the global air transport industry has outlined how to meet its new long-term climate goal during Transport Day events at the UN COP26 in Glasgow. This confirms the commitment of the world's airlines, airports, air traffic management and the m ...
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#1316142021-11-10
COP26 latest: US-China deal brings cautious optimism as negotiations enter final leg
As COP26 draws to a close, the announcement of a bilateral deal by the US and China to redouble climate efforts has brought cautious optimism to exhausted negotiators.
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#1315492021-11-09
Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report
The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN Cop26 summit.
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#1315502021-11-09
COP26: World on track for 2.4C warming despite climate summit - report
Despite pledges made at the climate summit COP26, the world is still nowhere near its goals on limiting global temperature rise, a new analysis shows. It calculates that the world is heading for 2.4C of warming, far more than the 1.5C limit nations committed to.
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#1315512021-11-09
COP26 climate summit switches focus to science and innovation
International lawmakers, business leaders and activists are convening in Glasgow, U.K. on Tuesday in the final week of the COP26 climate summit.
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#1315522021-11-09
Cop26: US must ‘deliver to get credit’ on climate crisis, says Ocasio-Cortez- day eight live
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, , has just been (you guessed it) speaking at an event attended by the press and US congresspeople.
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#1315532021-11-09
Changes in behaviour needed to tackle climate crisis, says UK chief scientist
Changes in behaviour are needed to tackle the climate emergency, the UK’s chief scientific adviser has said at the Cop26 summit.
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#1315562021-11-09
LiveLIVECOP26 accused of 'massive credibility and commitment gap'
President of COP26, Alok Sharma, says prediction reports about temperature rises demonstrate "that there has been some progress but clearly not enough"
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#1315572021-11-09
Climate change: What do scientists want from COP26 this week?
As the COP26 climate summit enters its second week, negotiations in Glasgow have hit a critical phase. The conference is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. So we asked more than a dozen climate scientists, negotiators and economists from around the world what they ...
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#1315582021-11-09
Cop26 news – live: ‘Mountain to climb’, Sharma admits as report shows world on course for 2.4C heating
There is a “mountain to climb” to make the Cop26 summit talks in Glasgow a success, Aloka Sharma has admitted. “We are making progress at Cop26 but we still have a mountain to climb over the next few days,” he told a press briefing held on Tuesday.
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#1315592021-11-09
An insider’s look at the Glasgow climate summit – talks intensify, amid grandstanding and anger outside
Young people poured into the streets of Glasgow on Nov. 5, 2021, angry and impatient as the first week of the U.N. climate summit ended. Their anger is matched by anxiety in the conference halls as the enormity of what has to be achieved in such a short period of time hovers over a complex proce ...
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#1315602021-11-09
Keep fighting, Obama urges young climate activists
At 19, Glasgow college student Ross Hamilton doesn’t think highly of world leaders — “they chat a lot of” nonsense — or expect them to accomplish anything on a problem he cares deeply about, climate change.
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#1315612021-11-09
How climate damage could break the Glasgow talks
The climate talks have shifted from global pronouncements to technical skirmishes as negotiators work behind the scenes to address dangers faced by millions of people from today’s rising temperatures.
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#1315652021-11-09
Frustrations over voices unrepresented in formal COP26 talks
Being on the ground in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26 is a strange and humbling experience. A quick search for news coverage on COP26 online brings up headlines that feature what Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is saying about the conference.
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#1315672021-11-09
Cop26 is creating false hope for a 1.5C rise – the stark reality is very different
Since the Paris agreement in 2015, countries around the world have promised ambitious action on climate change. Six years later, it is clear that they haven’t followed through on that promise. In the latest analysis carried out by Climate Action Tracker, published today, we find that the vast ma ...
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#1315682021-11-09
COP26: Tuvalu's Foreign Minister urges world leaders to address climate change
"We want the big emitters to take action in addressing climate change." That's how the Foreign Minister of the island nation of Tuvalu, Simon Kofe, feels about COP26 negotiations, as the effects of climate change are even more pressing for those who live in island nations.
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#1315692021-11-09
COP26: Two worlds talked past each other – or never even met
At the 2021 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, moving between the corporate slickness of the official “Blue Zone” (a UN-managed space which hosts the negotiations) and the wider fringe was quite a disconcerting experience for me. These were two different worlds. Everyone was committed to s ...
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#1315722021-11-09
Nicola Sturgeon tells COP26 summit that climate change is 'feminist issue'
Nicola Sturgeon has told COP26 that climate change is a "feminist issue" and called for the voice of women to be heard more loudly when tackling it.
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#1315732021-11-09
Cop26 leaders blame individuals, while supporting a far more destructive system
The protesters gathered in Glasgow for Cop26 are a diverse group – at the demonstration on Saturday I watched everybody file past – from international socialists to Scottish nationalists, healthcare workers to striking refuse workers, from indigenous activists at the very front to cycling enthus ...
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#1315742021-11-09
Climate activists decry ‘false solutions, fairy tales’ at COP26
Activists criticised plans by corporations and governments to solve the climate change emergency through opaque carbon-trading schemes instead of urgently shutting down fossil fuel production as many scientists recommend.
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#1315762021-11-09
COP26: Why we need more women at the top tackling climate change
There should be more women at the top of multilateral organisations to help alleviate the financial impact of climate change, Amanda Blanc, chief executive of British insurer Aviva and chair of a climate action group, said.
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#1315772021-11-09
COP26 latest: 'We still have a mountain to climb', says chair as clock ticks to strike cover deal
The clock is ticking at the UN climate summit, with only a few days left to strike a deal that will help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “We still have a mountain to climb,” said COP26 chairman Alok Sharma, while acknowledging "progress" in the negotiations.
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#1315792021-11-09
Egypt's Environment minister holds talks on sidelines of COP26
Egyptian Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad held talks with representatives of children and youth to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the sidelines of her participation in COP26 conference.
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#1315212021-11-08
Pacific island minister films climate speech knee-deep in the ocean
The foreign minister of Tuvalu, an island in the South Pacific, has filmed a speech to climate summit COP26 standing knee-deep in the ocean to show how the nation is vulnerable to global warming.