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WWF: Deforestation has gotten worse despite landmark COP26 conservation pledge
…to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. In 2022, the world missed its UN-backed deforestation target by 21%, WWF…
MPs: Government’s ‘mixed messaging’ policies undermining net-zero finance shift
The EAC has today (29 November) called on the Government to overhaul the progress it has made against key pledges made in Glasgow at COP26 in 2021. At COP26, then-Chancellor…
COP28 director-general: Business involvement in summit crucial to keep 1.5C alive
…as a negotiator for the UAE at a string of previous climate COPs. Like many others familiar with the summits, he has observed at uptick in business presence since COP26…
WATCH: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim on how COP28 can meaningfully support Indigenous-led climate solutions
…solutions made two years ago at COP26 in Glasgow. She expressed disappointment that only 7% of this finance had made its way directly to Indigenous groups within a year, because…
‘Alarming’: Businesses rank keeping 1.5C alive bottom of COP28 priorities
…sentence for the most-affected island states, and would also lead to cascading socio-economic impacts across the world. COP26 in Scotland in 2021 placed much onus on reaching an agreement that…
From leader to laggard: The fall and fall of the UK’s climate optics
…nature funding this year. The pledge was initially made by Boris Johnson at COP26 in 2021, with Sunak also present in Glasgow as Chancellor. Sunak is arguing that the pledge…
Other countries believe UK is ‘slowing its climate ambitions’, CCC warns
…COP26. It has a strong history and top-line commitments, the CCC has noted, but these are not being built upon to the extent that it would like to see. In…
COP28 Action Tracker: Last-minute climate talks in Abu Dhabi as UK offers new fossil fuel licences
…and COP26 President Alok Sharma called him “a hugely experienced source of wise advice and a good friend to the British COP26 team”. Betts died at the age of 64…
Science-based nature targets for cities and Race to Zero updates: The 7 biggest stories from 6 December at COP28
…lead-up to COP26. Over the past three years, it has grown steadily, with thousands of individual sub-national actors including businesses and cities signing up, all committing to playing their role…
COP28: UN climate chief’s four key calls to action with summit negotiations nearing endgame
…fuels should be phased out or down. While the direction on coal was set at COP26 two years ago, petrostates including Saudi Arabia are continuing to block strong language on…
COP26 President Alok Sharma to oppose North Sea fossil fuel expansion bill
Sharma appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme on Monday morning (8 January) to confirm his stance ahead of the Offshore Petroleum Licencing Bill’s second reading in Parliament, stating that…
CCC appoints Nigel Topping as new business champion
…equality. In 2020, Topping was selected to serve as the UN’s High-Level Champion for COP26, representing the UK as the host nation. More than 40,000 people attended the two-week climate…
Alok Sharma says COP28 agreement on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘vital’
…negotiating rooms. He said: “You know, we had a big fight at the end of COP26, which you’ll remember, on coal language. We managed, for the first time in any…
Conservative MPs push UK’s controversial oil and gas expansion law past first hurdle
…drawing on his international climate diplomacy experience as COP26 President: “Sadly, what this Bill does do – and this is my opinion, and others will have theirs – is reinforce…
Zac Goldsmith steps down, says PM Is ‘uninterested’ in tackling climate crisis
…the UK has “abandoned” its environmental commitments – domestically and on the world stage – since it hosted COP26 in winter 2021. Goldsmith writes of how the UK had, since…
International climate adaptation funding flows must grow at least tenfold, UN warns
…gap previously with the new figure more than 50% higher than the previous calculation. Wealthy nations pledged at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 to scale their international adaptation finance support…
Report: Insurers continue to support oil and gas expansion while withdrawing cover for climate-hit communities
…Despite these alarming numbers, leading insurers have abandoned climate change commitments they made as members of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, which was launched ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. The Alliance’s…
YouTube accused of letting creators profit off climate disinformation
…demonetised. Goggle published an update to its misinformation and monetization policies on climate in October 2021, in the lead-up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. It stated that it…
The UK should lead the G7 in the push for wind
…when it comes climate leadership since world leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26. But at this week’s G7 meeting in Hiroshima, the Prime Minister has a prime opportunity to reclaim…
‘Risk to competitiveness’: CCC urges Government to step up green job growth
…UK has a proud record of international climate leadership with our Climate Change Act 2008 and presidency of COP26. “IEMA is calling on delegates at COP28 in the UAE to…
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