These are some of the articles I have found:
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COP26: African Youth Voices You Need to Follow
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COP26: What do the poorest countries want from climate summit?
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COP26: 'Window closing' to meet 1.5C warming target - Alok Sharma
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COP26: What effect does methane have on climate change? And more questions
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Why Protecting Tribal Rights Is Key to Fighting Climate Change
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Greta Thunberg: Sometimes you need to anger people, says activist
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Reasons to be hopeful: the climate solutions available now
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Science Museum: Climate activists in overnight protest over fossil fuel sponsors
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Australia's net-zero plan fails to tackle our biggest contribution to climate change: Fossil fuel exports
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The case for climate action is closed. Time to act.
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To Slow Climate Change, We Must Reimagine What It Means to Eat Like an American
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Donor countries set to reach $100bn climate finance target in 2023 – three years late
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Northern Rockies Wolves Need Your Help a petition.
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Inside Clean Energy: Who’s Ahead in the Race for Offshore Wind Jobs in the US?
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COP26: African Youth Voices You Need to Follow
Young Africans are on the frontlines of the climate justice movement, advocating for communities in their regions and for the continent that is bearing the brunt of climate inaction, and they are saying enough is enough!
“In Africa, climate change is no longer a threat but a reality!” says Oladosu Adenike, an eco-feminist, climate activist based in Nigeria and the initiator of the Fridays for Future movement in her country while delivering the opening remarks during Ecocide — a performance Art theatre at Staatstheater Stuttgart, Germany.
Hers was a call for urgent action in the wake of the climate crisis declaring that not acting on climate change is a crime against human rights. She is among many young African activists who have been on the frontlines advocating for climate justice. They are clear they are not looking for pity but for action.
COP26: What do the poorest countries want from climate summit?
Developing countries are the most vulnerable to the damage caused by climate change, such as floods, droughts and wildfires.
What do developing countries want?
The least developed countries have set out their priorities for negotiations. They want richer and developed countries to:
COP26: 'Window closing' to meet 1.5C warming target - Alok Sharma
The window to keep within the 1.5 degree warming target "is closing", Alok Sharma has told COP26 in Glasgow.
Scientists say that keeping global warming below 1.5C will avoid the worst climate impacts - it was a target agreed upon by world leaders in 2015.
The COP26 president was addressing delegates on day one of the global climate summit in Scotland, which was postponed from 2020.
Mr Sharma said: "During that year climate change did not take time off."
He added that COP26 was "our last best hope" to meet the target originally set in Paris six years ago.
"We know our shared planet is changing for the worse, and we can only address that together," Mr Sharma said.
COP26: What effect does methane have on climate change? And more questions
The COP26 climate summit kicks off in Glasgow this weekend - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming.
But what's it all about? BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath answers some of your questions.
What is the impact of the quantity of methane on climate change? - Maya Yossifova, Vienna, Austria
Methane is a greenhouse gas, which is released from both natural sources, such as wetlands and termites, but also through human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation and landfill sites.
It's a compound of carbon and hydrogen, and this makes it exceptionally good at trapping heat - and a major cause of climate change.
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, methane levels in the atmosphere reached 1,889 parts per billion in 2021.
Why Protecting Tribal Rights Is Key to Fighting Climate Change
Two centuries of forced removal and relocation onto often-marginalized lands have left Native Americans uniquely vulnerable to climate change. From northern Arizona, where the Hopi are facing a megadrought that is withering crops and killing livestock, to southern Louisiana, where the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw are seeing their ancestral lands succumb to rising seas, Native American tribes are at the forefront of the climate crisis.
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, discusses how Indigenous people in the United States are imperiled by the impacts of climate change – including megafires, floods, heat waves, and drought – and where they are making progress. Sharp’s own Quinault Indian Nation in Washington, where she serves as vice president, is planning to relocate two seaside villages to higher ground to escape worsening floods — a move funded by revenue from a statewide carbon tax that the Quinault and other tribes negotiated for.
Greta Thunberg: Sometimes you need to anger people, says activist
Greta Thunberg has defended the tactics of environmental activists who have blocked roads, saying "sometimes you need to anger people".
But the teenage campaigner, who is in Glasgow for the COP26 summit, told the BBC it was important to ensure no-one was hurt.
Asked if she wanted to be a politician herself, Ms Thunberg said: "Not yet."
The 18-year-old was surrounded by police, media and activists when she arrived for the climate change summit in Glasgow by train on Saturday evening.
Reasons to be hopeful: the climate solutions available now
The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have every tool we need to beat it. The challenge is not identifying the solutions, but rolling them out with great speed.
Some key sectors are already racing ahead, such as electric cars. They are already cheaper to own and run in many places – and when the purchase prices equal those of fossil-fueled vehicles in the next few years, a runaway tipping point will be reached.
Electricity from renewables is now the cheapest form of power in most places, sometimes even cheaper than continuing to run existing coal plants. There’s a long way to go to meet the world’s huge energy demand, but the plummeting costs of batteries and other storage technologies bodes well.
Science Museum: Climate activists in overnight protest over fossil fuel sponsors
Climate activists who slept overnight in London's Science Museum will approach the attraction's visitors to tell them about its sponsorship deals.
A new gallery funded by a subsidiary of the Adani Group, a multinational business involved in coal extraction, is due to open in 2023.
About 30 members of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) camped out in the lobby as a protest on behalf of "victims" of fossil fuel companies.
No arrests have been made.
Demonstrator Izzy Warren, 17, said the group, which includes school pupils, university students and scientists, chose to occupy the museum because the owners had ignored their petitions, letters and boycotts.
Australia's net-zero plan fails to tackle our biggest contribution to climate change: Fossil fuel exports
The Morrison government's eleventh hour commitment to net zero by 2050 is a monumental failure.
Critics rightly point out the government's plan involves no increase to Australia's 2030 climate target, no new funding or policies and few concrete details of how reductions will be achieved—except a heavy reliance on technological solutions not yet invented.
What we do know is not encouraging. The questionable focus on subsidizing technologies such as carbon capture and storage seems designed to allow the fossil fuel industry to keep operating for decades to come. There is also no detail on how the promised jobs and economic growth will be achieved, nor any plan to legislate the projected reductions in emissions.
The case for climate action is closed. Time to act.
As you have just heard from the UN Secretary-General, the heat is very much on when it comes to climate change. Five days ahead of COP26, climate action is still inadequate. The updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other commitments for 2030 not officially submitted only take another 7.5 per cent beyond what has already been committed, when we needed 55 per cent to stay on the least-cost pathway for 1.5°C and 30 per cent for 2°C. As the report demonstrates — the world would need seven times more ambition to keep on the 1.5 degree track.
This is a yawning gap to close in eight years. Eight years in which we must increase ambition, make new plans, put in place new policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. We can still get the job done. But only if we get moving now and only if we take advantage of every opportunity.
this is what Christopher wrote in his twitter bio:
“I run the most depressing twitter account around. I simply post data, new research regarding climate change. It will destroy your mental health. I am not joking” Check out his work.
To Slow Climate Change, We Must Reimagine What It Means to Eat Like an American
Burgers and steaks have come to symbolize both the all-American meal and the heart of a destructive American ideology, which may explain this year’s meat-centric controversies, like Colorado Gov. Polis’ Meat Out Day and President Biden’s nonexistent burger ban. Suggesting we eat less meat is often met with a perplexing fury, though U.S. beef consumption is a major driver of the climate emergency.
Like apple pie, burgers have become icons of Americana. But unlike apple pie, beef reveals the dark side of American consumption: greenhouse gases, degraded grazing lands, and the grim realities of slaughterhouse impacts. So how did hamburgers—named after a city in Germany—become so enmeshed in American identity? And what’s the next step when our environmental future hangs in the balance?
Donor countries set to reach $100bn climate finance target in 2023 – three years late
Donor countries are set to meet an overdue $100 billion climate finance target in 2023 – three years late.
That is the conclusion of a delivery plan compiled by Germany and Canada and commissioned by the UK host of the Cop26 climate talks, which start on 31 October.
In 2009, wealthy nations committed to collectively mobilise $100bn a year between 2020 and 2025 to help developing countries cut their emissions and adapt to climate impacts.
Rich nations were $20bn short of the target in 2019, according to the latest available data analysed by the OECD. And based on recent trends, it almost certainly wasn’t met in 2020.
That is the conclusion of a delivery plan compiled by Germany and Canada and commissioned by the UK host of the Cop26 climate talks, which start on 31 October.
Northern Rockies Wolves Need Your Help
Idaho and Montana have declared war on wolves — and we must respond.
New laws in these states have opened the door to an almost total slaughter of their gray wolf populations. If we let this happen, decades of work to restore these apex predators to their former range in the northern Rocky Mountains will be wasted.
In response to an emergency petition from the Center and our allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that wolves in the West may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Inside Clean Energy: Who’s Ahead in the Race for Offshore Wind Jobs in the US?
On a breezy morning this week, politicians gathered near the water in Portsmouth, Virginia, to talk about offshore wind energy and jobs.
Siemens Gamesa of Spain, a manufacturer of wind turbines, was announcing plans for up to 310 jobs in the region as part of the ramp-up to building what will be the largest offshore wind farm in the United States.
“Let me start off by saying, in a real quick word, ‘Wow,’” said Portsmouth Mayor Shannon Glover.
The wind farm, announced in 2019, would have a generating capacity of 2,640 megawatts, more than three times that of the Vineyard Wind 1 project off the coast of Massachusetts that I’ve called “super-sized” more than once.
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I will decide how to handle the COP26 news later today. I could be doing daily COP26 News Roundups. there is a lot out there, I stopped collecting because this roundup is over following.
Thanks for reading.
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GLASGOW CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE – OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2021