These are some of the stories I have found:
- COP26: Leaders call for urgent climate action on first day of talks
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Over 700 Groups Demand 'Real Climate Solutions, Not Net-Zero Promises'
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Earth will warm 2.7 degrees Celsius based on current pledges to cut emissions
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Greta Thunberg: Youth activist demands COP26 world leaders 'face up to climate emergency'
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'Manchin Is a F**king Snake': Progressives Urged to Keep Pushing for Both Bills
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'The Earth Is Speaking': Indigenous Activists Tell COP26 There's No Climate Solution Without Them
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Queen tells Cop26 in video address it is ‘time for action’ on climate
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G-20 public finance for fossil fuel projects dwarfs green energy support
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Discussing Egypt’s policies for adaptation to climate change
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Biden Must Stop Fossil Fuel Project Approvals, Declare Climate Emergency
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SEN. JOE MANCHIN HAS BEEN FIGHTING TO KEEP BILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY
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COP26: Leaders call for urgent climate action on first day of talks
World leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, called for urgent action to tackle climate change at the UN's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Monday.
"We've taken a number of decisions of the year 2015 [the year of the Paris agreement] as a guiding line," Merkel told the climate conference in her opening remarks. "As we've been hearing more than once, we are not yet where we need to be," she added.
"We must and we can implement the Paris agreement," Merkel said.
"The world community hopes that we present ourselves in a better shape at the end of this conference than we found ourselves in the beginning," Merkel added.
Over 700 Groups Demand 'Real Climate Solutions, Not Net-Zero Promises'
As world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday for a United Nations climate summit, more than 700 organizations from nearly 100 countries took aim at net-zero pledges "premised on the notion of canceling out emissions in the atmosphere rather than eliminating their causes."
"We are concerned that rich countries and polluting corporations will push ahead with 'false solutions' at COP26."
The groups' case for "real climate solutions, not net-zero promises" came in an open letter to governments and international institutions arguing that "to address the current climate emergency, we need real plans, real solutions, real finance, and real zero for an urgent, just transition."
Earth will warm 2.7 degrees Celsius based on current pledges to cut emissions
This year was supposed to be a turning point in addressing climate change. But the world’s nations are failing to meet the moment, states a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme.
The Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On, released October 26, reveals that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and rein in global warming still put the world on track to warm by 2.7 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by the end of the century.
Aiming for “net-zero emissions” by midcentury — a goal recently announced by China, the United States and other countries, but without clear plans on how to do so — could reduce that warming to 2.2 degrees C. But that still falls short of the mark, U.N. officials stated at a news event for the report’s release.
Greta Thunberg: Youth activist demands COP26 world leaders 'face up to climate emergency'
Four youth climate change activists including Greta Thunberg have penned an open letter to world leaders on the morning of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The letter is calling on world leaders to "face up to the climate emergency", adding that young people feel betrayed by "our governments' failure to cut carbon emission", and lays out a five-point plan to deliver a climate-safe future.
Since it was made public on Avaaz the letter has been signed by more than a million people.
'Manchin Is a F**king Snake': Progressives Urged to Keep Pushing for Both Bills
Supporters of passing the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package urged congressional progressives to maintain their position that it must move forward simultaneously with bipartisan infrastructure legislation after Sen. Joe Manchin accused his colleagues of holding the latter bill "hostage" and demanded an immediate vote.
During a Monday press conference, Manchin (D-W.Va.) said that "the political games have to stop" and called for the Democrat-held U.S. House of Representatives to swiftly vote on the infrastructure bill—which several Senate Democrats advanced in August with the expectation that it would only reach President Joe Biden's desk alongside the reconciliation package.
'The Earth Is Speaking': Indigenous Activists Tell COP26 There's No Climate Solution Without Them
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference—also known as COP26—got underway in Glasgow, Scotland this week, Indigenous activists from around the world warned that failure to center their peoples' voices and solutions would seriously hamper efforts to tackle the growing planetary emergency.
"We can develop actions based on our culture and our traditional knowledge."
"Today, the climate is warming, the animals are disappearing, the rivers are dying and our plants don't flower like they did before," Txai Suruí, a law student, activist, and member of the Paiter Suruí people of northwestern Brazil, said during Sunday's COP26 opening ceremony. "The Earth is speaking. She tells us that we have no more time."
Queen tells Cop26 in video address it is ‘time for action’ on climate
The Queen has expressed her hope that world leaders would “rise above the politics of the moment, and achieve true statesmanship” in tackling the climate crisis as she welcomed Cop26 delegates to Glasgow in a recorded video address.
“It has sometimes been observed that what leaders do for their people today is government and politics. But what they do for the people of tomorrow – that is statesmanship.
G-20 public finance for fossil fuel projects dwarfs green energy support
More than twice as much money went to bankroll oil, gas and coal projects than for renewable energy between 2018 and last year, according to an analysis of public finance released on Thursday (Oct 28) by two environmental groups.
Most of that money also went to projects in wealthier countries rather than to develop the energy needs of poorer nations, it found.
The Group of 20 (G-20) countries spent at least US$63 billion (S$85 billion) per year financing oil, gas and coal projects through their development finance institutions, export credit agencies and the multilateral development banks (MDBs) compared with about US$26 billion per year for renewables, the report by non-governmental organisations Friends of the Earth US and Oil Change International said.
Discussing Egypt’s policies for adaptation to climate change
Egypt has taken firm steps towards incorporating solid approach since 2015, to combat the effects of climate change on its environment in line with its 2030 national strategy for sustainable development.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi participates in the Glasgow Summit on confronting climate change in Britain, where Egypt is implementing a national strategy to confront climate change, which we review in the following report.
Below are steps taken by Egypt in this regard:
Climate change dimension has been integrated into a larger number of ministries to become one of the pillars of their strategic planning, in addition to working with development partners to attract climate finance in many fields.
Biden Must Stop Fossil Fuel Project Approvals, Declare Climate Emergency
Grassroots leaders from the Build Back Fossil Free campaign rallied ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks at the United Nations climate summit today in Glasgow, Scotland. Representatives of Indigenous, Black and frontline communities — along with dozens of other climate justice groups — demanded Biden take executive action to stop fossil fuel project approvals and declare a climate emergency.
President Biden has continued to approve fossil fuel expansion in recent months, while pointing to Congress to excuse the United States’ lack of climate ambition and espousing false solutions like carbon capture and “net zero” plans that perpetuate fossil fuel destruction and environmental racism. New analysis from Oil Change International shows that using executive action, Biden could stop at least 24 key fossil fuel projects totaling over 1.6 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions, including the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines.
SEN. JOE MANCHIN HAS BEEN FIGHTING TO KEEP BILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY
A PACKAGE OF legislation that represents a last chance to avoid severe climate crisis impacts was dramatically defanged late last week by conservative West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
Manchin, whose vote is key to any possibility of passing the already diminished $3.5 trillion reconciliation package into law, said he will not support its most meaningful climate provision. The Clean Electricity Performance Program would have sped up the transition to renewable energy from coal and natural gas by offering power utilities money to make the switch and charging them fines if they failed to do so.
With the cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s climate policy all but dead, Democrats are pushing to get Manchin on board for a suite of tax credits that would incentivize renewables. Manchin has signaled that he’ll only sign on to wind and solar credits if Democrats chip away yet another key provision of Biden’s agenda: the elimination of fossil fuel industry subsidies.