COP26

The Ecologist
View In: COP26COP26: lest we forget Channel Other brendan 12th January 2022 Teaser Media

Yale E360
View In: COP26The Glasgow climate conference reached a successful conclusion on Saturday, with almost 200 nations signing up unanimously to the Glasgow Climate Pact. The diplomatic success was palpable, but climatically the outcome was more ambiguous, with no new moves in the final hours to bridge the gap betwee...

The Ecologist
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In These Times
View In: COP26Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the UN climate talks. Not so fast.

Popular Resistance
View In: COP26The 26th Conference of the Parties, COP26, climate summit ended with its president fighting back tears. Alok Sharma came to Glasgow, Scotland hoping for an agreement to end the extraction of coal. Instead he said this, “I apologize for the way this process has unfolded. I am deeply sorry.” The internationa...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: COP26When the final gavel went down on COP26, the British government minister Alok Sharma had tears in his eyes. “I apologize for the way this process has unfolded and I am deeply sorry,” he said. Sharma was right to apologize, even if he gave the wrong reasons for it. The Glasgow Climate Change Conferenc...

Inside Climate News
View In: COP26GLASGOW—As COP26 delegates went into overtime Friday night, shaping the language of their final climate communiques into something all 197 countries could agree on, scientists from around the world issued their latest, and perhaps starkest warning.  “We, climate scientists, stress that immediate, strong...

Popular Resistance
View In: COP26Regardless of the outcome of COP26, one inevitability is that the rich and powerful celebrate whatever the conference produces as vital progress. Only a disaster on the level of COP15 in Copenhagen might put a stop to the self-congratulatory triumphalism. Already, though, most observing the negotiation...

Common Dreams
View In: COP26The next two COPs are in oil producing countries. Unbelievable!

Truth Out
View In: COP26The scientists point to a “rapidly shrinking” carbon budget to limit warming over the century to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26As the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow concludes, all of Civil Society 700 members, walked out on Friday in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments in the final agreement.

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: COP26 An NGO representative expresses the perspectives of many observers present at - yet also excluded from - substantive talks in Glasgow. The post Frustrations over voices unrepresented in formal COP26 talks appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

The Ecologist
View In: COP26Activists are shut out, but billionaires are allowed in.

Popular Resistance
View In: COP26In his speech at COP26 on November 2, British prime minister Boris Johnson announced that more than 100 countries had joined the Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, which seeks to halt and reverse the alarming levels of global deforestation by 2030. The declaration also emphasizes the nee...

Common Dreams
View In: COP26Over 100,000 people marched through Glasgow yesterday.

Common Dreams
View In: COP26Allowing extractive industries to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached at COP26 in Glasgow.

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26A great talk by the Prime Minister of Barbados. She was one of the first speakers. Pointed out fixing climate change is cheap compared to the Quantatative Easing they have been doing.

Common Dreams
View In: COP26“This public money needs to be urgently redirected into a just energy transition.”

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26We speak to Farhana Yamin, one of the most prominent climate lawyers in Britain, who has been deeply involved in international climate negotiations for decades, including the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, and has also engaged in direct action to effect change. Yamin is currently working with the Climat...

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26A new ad released by the United Nations Development Program shows a computer-generated dinosaur speaking in the U.N. General Assembly hall, warning diplomats that “going extinct is a bad thing” and calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies. The dinosaur is voiced by Jack Black.

Counterpoint
View In: COP26“Boris Johnson opened the 26th UN Climate Conference in Glasgow on Monday. The event once again represents ‘the last best hope’ for world leaders to save the planet from climate change. President Biden arrived in an 85-car motorcade, called the climate an existential threat and apologized for the U.S...

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26This year's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow may be the whitest and most privileged one ever, with thousands from the Global South unable to attend because of lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines and travel restrictions. The global inequity in vaccine access mirrors the disproportionate impac...

Democracy Now!
View In: COP26As the U.K. government tries to claim the mantle of climate leadership at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, we speak with Mary Church, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland. She describes how activists are calling on U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to block the development of the gian...

The Guardian
View In: COP26Leaders say they hoped for more from G20 talks in Rome and chances of staying below 1.5C are fading. Plus, how to cure our addiction to trashDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Leaders representing more than 1 billion of the people most at risk from the climate crisi...

Grist
View In: COP26What’s a COP? Who’ll be there? Can I stream it? Read on to find out.