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Cop26: Boris Johnson talks the talk but can he really deliver a climate deal?
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Cop26 attendees stranded in London as fallen tree halts rail services
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COP26: 'Moment of truth' as world meets for climate summit
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COP26: Boris Johnson says 'no excuses' for not tackling climate change
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Behaviour change on climate can be driven by TV, says Sky
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They would walk 500 miles: meet the Cop26 pilgrims who got to Glasgow on foot
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Climate march in Edinburgh on day one of COP26
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Indigenous peoples seek greater voice and more influence at COP26 climate conference
- Youth activists sailing to COP26 onboard the Rainbow Warrior ignore warnings from port authorities
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Cop26: Boris Johnson talks the talk but can he really deliver a climate deal?
Anyone who listened to Rishi Sunak’s budget speech last Wednesday could be forgiven for concluding that there is nothing particularly urgent for people to worry about – economically or existentially – on the climate front.
The chancellor was 35 minutes into his third budget address to MPs before he even alluded to matters environmental. And when a reference finally came it was a fairly brief one – to the government’s “ambitious net zero strategy” – of which he is said to be no great fan. Throughout the entire budget, Sunak did not use the phrase “climate change” once.
There were, however, no less than 10 mentions by the chancellor of the price of cider. And four of sparkling wine as he made much of his plans to cut duties on both, something he said he was able to do because the UK was now outside the EU. This was a budget not about the long-term goal of saving the planet ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, to be chaired by the UK and which Sunak will attend, but about fostering short-term optimism, dealing out largesse and creating feelgood headlines at home.
Cop26 attendees stranded in London as fallen tree halts rail services
Hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to Glasgow for the Cop26 climate summit by train have been left waiting inside London’s Euston station after a fallen tree halted services.
Travellers acknowledged the irony of the situation, as many were forced to book domestic flights to the conference on climate change as a result of the cancellations.
Just before 2pm no Sunday, an announcement in the station revealed all train services had been suspended and the concourse was “exit only” due to overcrowding.
Pictures on social media showed the concourse packed with people, many of whom were hoping to travel north for the climate conference which began on Sunday.
David Johnson was left sitting on his train from London Euston to Glasgow for more than half an hour on Sunday morning before eventually being told to get off along with his fellow passengers
COP26: 'Moment of truth' as world meets for climate summit
The highly anticipated COP26 climate change summit has begun in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Delegates from around 200 countries are there to announce how they will cut emissions by 2030 and help the planet.
With the world warming because of fossil fuel emissions caused by humans, scientists warn that urgent action is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the summit will be the "world's moment of truth".
Speaking ahead of the two-week conference, Mr Johnson urged leaders to make the most of it: "The question everyone is asking is whether we seize this moment or let it slip away."
COP26: Boris Johnson says 'no excuses' for not tackling climate change
Boris Johnson has warned world leaders there are "no compelling excuses" for failing to tackle climate change.
Speaking at the close of the G20 summit in Rome, he said some progress was made in the past few days - but there was still a "huge way" to go.
World leaders were meeting in Rome to discuss what can be done to keep global warming in check, ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Mr Johnson added immediate action was needed to halve emissions by 2030.
Behaviour change on climate can be driven by TV, says Sky
Seventy per cent of people across Europe are willing to change their behaviour to address the climate crisis according to research published today by Sky and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT).
Using behavioural science techniques, Sky and BIT set out ten new behavioural science principles to guide broadcasters on helping their viewers to take action. The study develops a clear role for content creators and broadcasters to inspire green behaviours from their viewers, as well as revealing data on consumer attitudes to climate change.
It comes at a critical time as experts now widely accept that we must shift the behaviour of millions of people to deliver on our collective net zero goals.
They would walk 500 miles: meet the Cop26 pilgrims who got to Glasgow on foot
While most delegates deliberate about whether to drive, fly or catch the train to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, a dozen or so pilgrims have just spent the past 55 days getting there on foot from London. Members of the female-run faith group Camino to Cop26 have been walking a 500-mile route since early September.
Theirs is just one of a number of pilgrimages reaching Glasgow this weekend, with about 250 individuals expected, some coming from as far as Poland and Germany – one group has walked more than 1,000 miles from Sweden. Extinction Rebellion Scotland says their arrival will mark the “opening ceremony” for nonviolent protests planned in the Scottish city and around the world during the UN climate talks.
From 18-year-old students to 74-year-old grandmothers, members of Camino to Cop26 – which is part of Extinction Rebellion – have been raising awareness about the climate and ecological crisis along the way. On some days they had 70 people walking with them. The group spent nights sleeping on the floors of churches, village halls and community centres, raising £17,000 to cover their costs, with any additional money going to support the work of climate activists in developing countries.
Climate march in Edinburgh on day one of COP26
Extinction Rebellion activists have marched through Edinburgh in solidarity with protests taking place across the world during the COP26 climate summit.
The demonstrators walked through the city to a rally at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
Among those who addressed the crowd was Monicah Kamandau, a climate activist from Kenya.
"I am in Kenya and I face the climate crisis first hand," she told protestors.
Indigenous peoples seek greater voice and more influence at COP26 climate conference
When she was first elected as a tribal leader in 2006, Fawn Sharp, now the vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state, confronted an ecological catastrophe: the virtual end of the sockeye salmon run.
“We used to have millions of sockeye salmon returning," Sharp said. "The year I got elected, we only had 3,000.”
Sharp later learned that issues like warming ocean temperatures and rising acidity in the seawater, along with the shrinking glaciers that feed the river that bears her tribe's name, all contributed to the near-extinction of a resource that is central to subsistence and to the identity of the Quinault people.
The tribe is also dealing with sea level rise, which has already inundated the place where the Quinault's treaty with the U.S. was signed.
Youth activists sailing to COP26 onboard the Rainbow Warrior ignore warnings from port authorities
The Rainbow Warrior will defy the authorities in Glasgow and sail up the River Clyde to the global climate conference, COP26, despite being refused access.
It is carrying activists from impacted communities who, if the ship’s voyage is successful, will be met by fellow activists on Monday afternoon outside of the summit where they will deliver a powerful message to world leaders.
The four youth climate activists onboard the ship are members of Fridays for Future MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas). They come from four countries across three continents – Namibia, Uganda, Mexico and Bangladesh – and are demanding that world leaders must ‘stop failing us’ [1].
If you open The Guardian link above it has short synopsis of things going on today.
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