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#131423
2021-11-02

Trudeau takes carbon pricing debate to the global stage at COP26

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed the world to have 60 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions covered by a price on pollution in 2030, during a speech at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow on Tuesday.

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#131424
2021-11-02

Cop26 live: Biden launches pledge to cut methane by 30%

Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has told delegates at Cop26 that his trip to space made him realise how “finite and fragile” the Earth is. Bezos said: “I was told that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens from which you view the world. But I was not prepared for just how much that would be ...

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#131425
2021-11-02

COP26: Keep track of everything that's been agreed at the climate summit so far

Ending and reversing deforestation, cutting methane emissions, and the journey to net-zero have all been agreed to by world leaders at the crucial Glasgow climate summit so far. You can keep track of all the deals and pledges here.

News Headlines
#131426
2021-11-02

Cop26: 'You might as well bomb us,' says president of Palau – video

The president of the Pacific island state of Palau has told the Cop26 summit that parallels could be drawn between the climate crisis and the traditional Palau story of a boy who grew into a giant and 'wouldn’t stop growing ... depleting all the natural resources'.

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#131429
2021-11-02

‘We are digging our own graves’: world leaders’ powerful words at Cop26

Alarm, anger and a few significant promises featured during speeches made by dozens of world leaders as crucial UN climate talks came to life in a cold and wet Glasgow on Monday.

News Headlines
#131432
2021-11-02

Climate change: Five dealmakers who will influence the outcome at COP26

While Greta Thunberg, Sir David Attenborough and world leaders will attract most of the media attention at COP26, the real work of getting 197 countries to commit to changes will fall to lesser-known diplomats and ministers - the negotiators.

News Headlines
#131433
2021-11-02

Cop26 live: focus on finance as Rishi Sunak makes London net zero pledge

The UK’s longest-lasting snow patch, in the Cairngorms in central Scotland, has melted for the eighth time in the past 300 years and the third time in the past five.

News Headlines
#131332
2021-11-01

Poor countries at Cop26 concerned by G20’s limited climate progress

The G20 is failing poor and vulnerable countries by not agreeing to a climate plan that would ensure their people’s survival, leading figures at the Cop26 climate talks have said.

News Headlines
#131333
2021-11-01

Queueing chaos outside Cop26 venue as leaders arrive – live

Scenes like this have not been seen at a Cop since the poorly prepared Copenhagen conference in 2009. A crowd of many hundreds, probably at least 2,000 just in the forward bit, gathered at the entrance where there seemed to be no preparation, no attempt to encourage people to queue rather than s ...

News Headlines
#131334
2021-11-01

Call for world leaders to ‘banish ghosts of past’ with Cop26 climate vows

Alok Sharma, the president of the Cop26 climate summit, has called on global leaders to “banish ghosts of the past” and step up with new pledges to lower emissions as the world is running out of time to keep warming below 1.5C.

News Headlines
#131336
2021-11-01

We’re in uncharted territory for the world’s climate, UN says

The climate crisis has driven the planet into “uncharted territory”, with far-reaching repercussions for today’s and future generations, according to the UN World Meteorological Organization. It said the Cop26 summit was a “make-or-break opportunity to put us back on track”.

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#131337
2021-11-01

Optimism for Cop26: we must win the climate battle – and we absolutely can

I’ve been covering climate and the environment for 17 years – it’s astonishing to me that so many positive things are happening in response to the crisis.

News Headlines
#131338
2021-11-01

Cop26 summit at serious risk of failure, says Boris Johnson

The Cop26 climate summit is at serious risk of failure because countries are still not promising enough to restrict global temperature rises to below 1.5C, Boris Johnson has warned.

News Headlines
#131339
2021-11-01

Cop26 ‘literally the last chance saloon’ to save planet – Prince Charles

Cop26 is “the last chance saloon” to save the world from runaway climate change, Prince Charles has told world leaders in Rome ahead of the crucial climate summit in Glasgow.

News Headlines
#131341
2021-11-01

COP26: World at one minute to midnight over climate change - Boris Johnson

The world is at "one minute to midnight", having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. He was speaking as world leaders arrive for the landmark COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

News Headlines
#131342
2021-11-01

LiveLIVEWorld leaders under pressure to avoid climate catastrophe

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres have been greeting world leaders as they arrive in Glasgow.

News Headlines
#131343
2021-11-01

Cop26 must be about action, not rhetoric, warns Micheál Martin as crucial climate summit begins

Climate change is “without question” the most serious challenge in our lifetime, an existential crisis if it is not tackled with action instead of rhetoric. Those were the words of Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the United Nations Cop26 climate change event in Glasgow began, with world leaders desc ...

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#131347
2021-11-01

Māori activist takes centre-stage at COP26 climate change summit

Māori activist for climate and indigenous peoples India Logan-Riley opened the first day reflecting on her first presentation six years ago at the summit.

News Headlines
#131351
2021-11-01

As Climate Summit Begins, Analysts See Risks--and Opportunities--for Investors

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is the most important climate summit since 2015, when the world agreed to strive to cap global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels--or, better yet, to 1.5 degrees--by substantially reducing greenhouse gas em ...

News Headlines
#131353
2021-11-01

After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic

In September 2006, shortly before the annual UN climate talks to be held that year in Nairobi, Kenya, I looked for hope amid the predictions of ecological collapse and the total failure of countries to act on emissions. It was hard going. The best I could manage was to argue that political, soci ...

News Headlines
#131354
2021-11-01

Rwanda: Kagame Challenges World Leaders on Tackling Climate Change

"This year's G20 is an opportunity to recall that pledge. We need a delivery plan. The world's largest economies contribute almost 80 per cent of worldwide emissions," he said.

News Headlines
#131360
2021-11-01

Heating up: World leaders take center stage at climate talks

It’s time for more than 130 world leaders to feel the heat. They will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming. From U.S. President Joe Biden to Seychelles Presi ...

News Headlines
#131362
2021-11-01

COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow amid acrimony

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.

News Headlines
#131375
2021-11-01

Cop26: polling data is overwhelming – people want leaders to act

The world’s nations meeting at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow are tasked with dramatically ramping up action to tackle the climate emergency. But do their citizens back them? And does the UK, as host, have a strong public mandate to act? The evidence from dozens of recent opinion polls is overwhelm ...

News Headlines
#131376
2021-11-01

Hope for a 'eureka' moment on climate change persists as COP26 begins in Scotland

As the UN climate summit began in Scotland, an event billed as the "last, best hope" to save the planet from catastrophic consequences, there were more than enough reasons to feel as gloomy as the Glasgow weather that welcomed delegates.

News Headlines
#131378
2021-11-01

World Leaders to Focus on Climate Change as Major Conference Opens

More than 100 world leaders are gathering for a summit Monday as work begins at a two-week U.N. climate conference, with areas of focus expected to include pledges for emissions targets and funding to help developing nations cope with impacts from climate change.

News Headlines
#131379
2021-11-01

Young activists call Glasgow climate conference 'last chance for humanity'

There are over 8,900 miles separating the African nation of Malawi from the United States. A direct airplane between the two would take an estimated 16 hours, and, as well as physical distance, the lands are also culturally miles apart.

News Headlines
#131380
2021-11-01

‘Time is running out’: your messages for world leaders at Cop26

World leaders must commit to actions rather than promises, renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, and future security rather than present consumption, according to hundreds of messages from Guardian readers and supporters submitted to the Cop26 climate summit.

News Headlines
#131387
2021-11-01

World leaders meet for 'last best chance' COP26 climate talks in Glasgow

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the United Kingdom will commit an additional £1 billion – or $1.368 billion USD – in aid for climate finance by 2025, if Britain's economy grows as forecast.

News Headlines
#131388
2021-11-01

COP26: Stop treating nature ‘like a toilet’, UN boss Antonio Guterres warns world leaders in summit speech

The UN Secretary General António Guterres has thrown his support behind the “climate action army” of activists and protestors as he warned world leaders we must stop treating nature “like a toilet”.

News Headlines
#131287
2021-10-29

Fast facts about international views of climate change as Biden attends UN COP26 conference

President Joe Biden is in Europe this weekend to attend COP26, a United Nations conference on climate change. The summit comes after a UN panel reported in August that urgent measures are needed to avoid catastrophic effects from climate change.

News Headlines
#131288
2021-10-29

Interactive: Who wants what at the COP26 climate change summit

Many thousands of words have been written about what the COP26 climate summit should be aiming to achieve, according to a multitude of different perspectives.

News Headlines
#131295
2021-10-29

These 4 charts explain why the stakes are so high at the U.N. climate summit

Leaders from around the world are gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, to hammer out new pledges to fight climate change. The stakes are high. Scientists warn that heat-trapping emissions must fall dramatically by 2030. Otherwise, the world faces more extreme hurricanes, floods and droughts, likely d ...

News Headlines
#131297
2021-10-29

Pope Francis calls for ‘radical’ climate change response before COP26

Pope Francis said Friday that climate change was an "unprecedented threat" which requires an urgent and effective response, as global leaders prepare for the imminent COP26 summit in Scotland.

News Headlines
#131298
2021-10-29

'Everything is at stake' as world gathers for climate talks

More than one world leader says humanity's future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit.

News Headlines
#131317
2021-10-29

The Amazon is still burning. Can UN summit in Glasgow address such climate failures?

By all measures, Giovane Garrido Mendonça should be a logger. His father and grandfather and great-grandfather all made their livings felling thick trees deep in the Brazilian Amazon. As a child, Mendonça often tagged along, proudly toting his father's chainsaw.

News Headlines
#131322
2021-10-29

Exploring the rise of emissions in the shadow of global climate negotiations

This November, world leaders will meet once again to negotiate and discuss measures to address the global climate crisis. The question is, will COP26 in Glasgow make any difference? A recently published research article identifies key reasons behind the world's 30-year record of failure to bring ...

News Headlines
#131258
2021-10-28

Cop26 must focus on poorer countries, says UN development chief

Achim Steiner says failure by UK hosts to recognise developing nations’ concerns could lead to breakdown of talks. Developing countries, many of which are deeply indebted following the Covid-19 crisis, must be the focus of the Cop26 summit if the UK hopes to make it a success, the UN’s developme ...

News Headlines
#131269
2021-10-28

Here Are the Goals of the COP26 Climate Change Meetings—and Where the World Stands in Accomplishing Them

Next week, thousands of ministers and diplomats from across the world will descend on an event campus in Glasgow, Scotland for the most important climate conference in recent years—and perhaps the most significant international meeting of our lifetimes.

News Headlines
#131275
2021-10-28

Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing

“The rain it raineth every day,” Feste tells the audience at the end of “Twelfth Night”. And the cop it coppeth every year. Since 1995 the countries bound by the un Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) have missed only one conference of the parties—when the pandemic struck in 2020. Th ...

News Headlines
#131227
2021-10-27

U.N. biodiversity chief urges COP26 climate talks to prioritise nature

Any new pledges made at the upcoming COP26 climate summit must include protection and restoration of natural areas, said the U.N. biodiversity chief - a move that could give a boost to ongoing efforts to broker a separate global nature pact.

News Headlines
#131111
2021-10-25

Kunming, Beijing meetings set new directions for world

China's ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that conferences held in China this month on biodiversity and green-themed transport provide new starting points for efforts toward innovation-driven development.

News Headlines
#131055
2021-10-21

Biodiversity loss and climate change are humanity’s biggest issues: COP15 is a critical precursor to COP26

Findings in a recent co-sponsored workshop report compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) record that biodiversity loss and climate change are two of the most pressing issues ...

News Headlines
#130914
2021-10-18

Land of Diversity – a documentary dedicated to COP15

The power of evolution prevails even in some of the world’s toughest environments. From mammals and reptiles to flowers and leafy plants, the Himalayas have some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, which have bred the most incredible diversity of life on the planet.

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#130915
2021-10-18

China steps up construction of photovoltaic bases after COP15

China is accelerating the construction of photovoltaic power stations in deserts to support its environmental protection goals and develop renewable energy after several major renewable energy projects were revealed at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biolog ...

News Headlines
#130916
2021-10-18

Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far

“Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October 13 2021, otherwise known as COP15.

News Headlines
#130917
2021-10-18

Revival of rare species reflects China’s biodiversity conservation

China has made great strides in protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity in the past decades. Cases of population restoration of species such as giant pandas, Asian elephants, and snow leopards are familiar to people around the world. However, there are still many stories of rare ...

News Headlines
#130918
2021-10-18

Yili Group Attends COP15 Ecological Civilization Forum to Discuss Biodiversity Conservation

Yili announces latest biodiversity conservation initiatives: "Save Endangered Asian Elephants" and "Smart Grasslands" Yili attends COP15, showcasing progress of "Yili Homeland Initiative" and discussing plans on biodiversity conservation

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#130919
2021-10-18

Green Pulse Podcast: Saving biodiversity: It should be in our nature

The world is full of amazing plant and animal life, without which humans could not survive. Nature, from forests to coral reefs, to soils and grasslands, provides humanity with food and materials to live. Yet nature is under great threat from our rush for resources to grow our economies and cities.

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#130920
2021-10-18

Nigeria, others adopt Kunming declaration, create biodiversity fund

The High-Level Segment of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) closed last week with the adoption of the Kunming Declaration, where parties to the Convention, including Nigeria committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

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