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#1313472021-11-01
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.
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#1313512021-11-01
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 ...
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#1313532021-11-01
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 ...
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#1313542021-11-01
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.
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#1313602021-11-01
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 ...
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#1313622021-11-01
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.
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#1313752021-11-01
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 ...
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#1313762021-11-01
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.
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#1313782021-11-01
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.
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#1313792021-11-01
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.
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#1313802021-11-01
‘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.
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#1313872021-11-01
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.
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#1313882021-11-01
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”.
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#1312872021-10-29
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.
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#1312882021-10-29
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.
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#1312952021-10-29
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 ...
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#1312972021-10-29
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.
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#1312982021-10-29
'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.
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#1313172021-10-29
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.
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#1313222021-10-29
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 ...
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#1312582021-10-28
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 ...
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#1312692021-10-28
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.
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#1312752021-10-28
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 ...
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#1312272021-10-27
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.
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#1311112021-10-25
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.
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#1310552021-10-21
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 ...
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#1309142021-10-18
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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#1309152021-10-18
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 ...
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#1309162021-10-18
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.
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#1309172021-10-18
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 ...
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#1309182021-10-18
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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#1309192021-10-18
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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#1309202021-10-18
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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#1309212021-10-18
Explained: What Is Kunming Declaration On Biodiversity, Pledged By More Than 100 Countries?
More than 100 countries on the 13th of October 2021 pledged to make the protection of habitats an integral part of their respective government’s policies. The delegations from these countries were attending the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in the Chinese city of Kunming.
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#1309242021-10-18
People's Daily Online: The Population of Endangered Species, Green Peafowl, Has Shown Steady Increase Research From the Kunming Institute of Zoology Shows
Phase one of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China from October 11 to 15, 2021. During the meeting, Yang Xiaojun, a researcher from the Bird Group of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Ch ...
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#1308912021-10-16
COP15 concludes in SW China's Kunming
The first part of the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference concluded in southwest China's Kunming on Friday. During the five-day meeting held both online and in person, the global community gathered to review a "post-2020 global biodiversity framework" and agreed on a new set of goals over the next ...
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#1308922021-10-16
WWF Director General: COP15 is an unmissable opportunity
The UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province is "an unmissable opportunity for the world" as it set a new direction for global biodiversity conservation, Director General of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Marco Lambertini has said.
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#1308932021-10-16
Part one of COP15 closes, setting stage for post-2020 biodiversity framework
Part one of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) closed Friday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, setting the stage for the adoption of an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework at the resumption of ...
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#1308942021-10-16
World inspired by China's great efforts
President Xi Jinping's remarks at the COP 15 meeting have demonstrated China's commitment in embracing a green economic system and boosted confidence in global biodiversity conservation, international experts said.
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#1308952021-10-16
First part of COP15 closes with ‘broad consensus’ on post-2020 biodiversity framework
After the adjournment of the week-long COP15 meeting on Friday afternoon, representatives and scholars attending the meeting said they expected the second part of the meeting next year to deliver a feasible global post-2020 biodiversity framework built on the political commitment and momentum fo ...
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#1308962021-10-16
Ambassador of Denmark to China on COP15
Thomas Østrup Møller, ambassador of Denmark to China, told CGTN host Tian Wei in an exclusive interview the nature does not respect borders. So when we are exploiting nature, it comes back and it will punish us. He also hoped that we are going to take some ambitious and decisive decisions at COP ...
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#1308972021-10-16
‘Ecological civilisation’: an empty slogan or will China act on the environment?
This week, China took charge of hosting a major UN environmental conference for the first time, at the opening of Cop15 in Kunming. The world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter and largest consumer of natural resources might seem a strange choice to host talks to stop the destruction of ecosystems ...
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#1308982021-10-16
‘Path to recovery’: Part one of COP15 closes with hopes high for new global biodiversity accord
The first phase of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China closed today (15 October) with the UN expressing confidence the week long talks had helped set the stage for the adoption of a new international treaty next year to ramp up global biodiversity protection.
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#1309002021-10-16
Kunming Conference provides a good prospects for further work to halt biodiversity loss
The first phase of a meeting of parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity provided good prospects for further negotiations aimed at halting biodiversity loss. Hosted by China in Kunming and partly arranged as a virtual event, the main achievement of the meeting was a unified message concernin ...
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#1309012021-10-16
China joins hands with world to start new journey of high-quality development for humanity
“The international community must enhance cooperation, build consensus and pool strength to build a community of all life on Earth,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a keynote speech.
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#1309022021-10-16
Exclusive: UK and China must continue to stand together to help world meet climate commitments, says UK envoy
At the COP15 in Kunming, Southwest China' Yunnan Province, China demonstrated a strong determination to work with other countries in protecting biodiversity, which is considered a new chapter in biodiversity conservation. The country's efforts of implementing a number of measures to protect and ...
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#1309042021-10-16
Preventing biodiversity collapse critical to COP26 climate goals, say world leaders
In the run-up to the UN’s crucial climate conference at month’s end, global leaders have laid the foundation for an international framework to protect nature and halt the collapse of biodiversity worldwide while also curbing global warming and protecting human health.
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#1309052021-10-16
UN biodiversity talks in China end in funding pledges to reduce loss of species
China, the European Union and Japan were among countries pledging to spend more on slowing down the rapid loss of species at talks this week in China to prepare for a new global biodiversity pact. But critics says the final agreement amounts to a "toothless tiger"
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#1309062021-10-16
Kunming Declaration refreshes global commitment to biodiversity
With a bang of the gavel, the Kunming Declaration was adopted Wednesday in the provincial capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, providing new momentum for drawing the roadmap for biodiversity conservation in the coming decade.
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#1309072021-10-16
Xinhua Headlines: Int'l community recognizes China-proposed ecological philosophy, urges bold global actions
Representatives from governments, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and private sectors worldwide have gathered in China, virtually or in person, to navigate transformative changes in biodiversity conservation.