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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.
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#1315242021-11-08
COP26: Rich countries ‘pushing back’ on paying for climate loss
Vulnerable countries at COP26 say rich nations are pushing back against their attempts to secure compensation for the damage caused by climate change.
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#1315292021-11-08
Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26
Rich countries must hit their $100bn climate finance target in the last week of Cop26 or it will be catastrophic for the poorest nations suffering the most from the climate crisis, the Gambian environment minister has warned.
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#1315302021-11-08
‘Stop killing us’: A weekend of Cop26 activism around the world – in pictures
From Sydney to Seoul and from Swansea to Paris, protesters on the streets send messages to the climate negotiators
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#1315312021-11-08
Cop26 legitimacy questioned as groups excluded from crucial talks
The legitimacy of the Cop26 climate summit has been called into question by civil society participants who say restrictions on access to negotiations are unprecedented and unjust.
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#1315322021-11-08
Cop26: what’s still to be resolved in the week ahead
Countries that have failed to come up with national plans on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with limiting temperature rises to 1.5C must be forced back to the negotiating table every year from now on, poor countries have said ahead of crunch talks at the Cop26 climate summit.
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#1315392021-11-08
Barack Obama arrives in Glasgow ahead of appearance at COP26 today
FORMER US president Barack Obama has arrived in Glasgow ahead of his appearance at the COP26 climate summit. Obama was president as the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 at the COP21 summit in France.
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#1315402021-11-08
Which side of history will the Morrison government be on when Glasgow is over?
As the climate talks in Glasgow reach their midpoint, it’s worth taking a look back at Australia’s extraordinary performance in the first week.
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#1315442021-11-08
Obama urges countries to 'act now' to tackle climate change, help island nations
Former U.S. president Barack Obama called on the UN climate conference in Glasgow on Monday to address the risks that island nations face from rising sea levels.
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#1315452021-11-08
COP26: Indigenous peoples, protests, and a call to end the war on nature
Mother Nature, or “Pachamama”, as they say in Latin America, took centre stage as the pivotal UN climate conference reached the halfway point. Nature is critical to our survival: it provides the oxygen we need to breathe, regulates weather patterns, supplies food and water for all living things, ...
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#1315482021-11-08
Climate talks struggle with gap between rich, poor nations
Large rifts remain as United Nations climate talks tick down to a Friday deadline. A lot of the divide comes down to money, which nations have it and which do not. So it's time for the diplomatic cavalry to ride in.
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#1314732021-11-04
Cop26 will be derailed unless the rich world meets its obligation to the poor
A couple of hundred years ago Britain was not a lot different from many poor countries today. Life expectancy was low, infant mortality was high, living standards barely rose from year to year, water-borne diseases were rife. People worked long hours and life for the struggling was, as Thomas Ho ...
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#1314752021-11-04
As young climate strikers, we are sick of conference upon conference. The clock is ticking
I am 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through protest. I don’t know exactly how to write a policy; what exact words or grammar should be used. I am not a scientist. I am a year 9 student. But through joining the School Strike for Climate (S ...
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#1314782021-11-04
LIVE Biggest users fail to sign up to ending coal
Some very positive news coming this morning from the influential International Energy Agency, a body that advises governments about energy.
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#1314792021-11-04
Cop26: More than 40 countries agree to phase out coal-fired power – day four live
More than 40 countries have agreed to phase out their use of coal-fired power, the dirtiest fuel source, in a boost to UK hopes of a deal to “keep 1.5C alive”, from the Cop26 climate summit.
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#1314802021-11-04
COP26: Biggest polluters are missing from major pledge to phase out coal
On the fourth day of COP26, more than 40 countries have made a major commitment to end coal use. 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 ...
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#1314812021-11-04
Funding Deal Gets Late Entry; IEA Sees 1.8 Degrees: COP Update
About 20 nations have signed on to a deal to stop funding foreign fossil fuel projects -- with a last-minute entry by Italy. But the impact of the accord is undermined by the absence of key countries like China.
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#1314822021-11-04
Cop26: Coal in the crosshairs as climate summit stirs clean energy pledges
Indonesia, Poland, Vietnam and other nations have pledged to phase out their use of coal-fired power and to stop building plants, a move that Cop26 climate summit host Britain described as putting the end of the fuel “in sight”.