Global temperatures are expected to rise by at least 2.4C, despite pledges made at the COP26 climate talks for the next decade, new analysis from the Climate Action Tracker warned today.
The first draft has been published of a text for the COP26 talks in Glasgow.
The former US president, Barack Obama, told young people to stay angry and prepare for a marathon on tackling climate change.
More than 500 lobbyists from some of the largest oil and gas companies have been given access to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, new analysis has found.
Talks focussed on energy at the fifth day of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. The COP president says “the end of coal is in sight” and there’s a commitment by some countries to end public funding for unabated fossil fuels.
The COP26 president, Alok Sharma, declared this morning: “I do believe that the end of coal is in sight. I do believe that we are getting to a point we can consign coal power to history.”
Campaigners from across the UK called today for councils to divest their pension funds from fossil fuels.
The US president has said the leaders of China and Russia lost world influence by not coming to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
A US/EU initiative to cut the powerful greenhouse gas, methane, will focus on the oil and gas industry, it was revealed today.
More than 100 world leaders have promised to stop and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade.
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