UN climate summit

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by climate change. When diplomats from nearly…
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The likelihood of crossing a key global warming threshold has risen significantly, according to a new analysis. UK Met Office researchers say that there's now around a fifty-fifty chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C over the…
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A new UN report on the impacts of climate change is set to be the gravest assessment yet of how rising temperatures are affecting every living thing. The study, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), summarises several…
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To emphasize the moral imperative to combat climate change, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked her religious beliefs in a press conference on Thursday. Pelosi said limiting the severity of climate change is “a moral obligation for us to…
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UN climate talks entered their final week Monday with countries still worlds apart on key issues including how rapidly the world curbs carbon emissions and how to help nations already impacted by global heating. After a week of headline…
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Global-- As the World Leaders Summit closes at the UN climate talks, spokespeople for grassroots climate campaigning organisation, 350.org said: Namrata Chowdhary: Chief of Public Engagement at 350.org “We expect better, we deserve more,…
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Climate negotiators at the COP26 summit were banking on the world's most powerful leaders to give them a boost before they embark on two weeks of fraught discussions over who should do what to slow the rise in global temperatures. In the…
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday he would attend the U.N. COP26 climate summit in Glasgow as his conservative government faces global pressure to take further action to cut carbon emissions. Morrison had said he was…
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On the northern edge of a vast Chinese factory city, welding torches gleam as workers finish construction on a gas-fired power plant to replace one that burned coal and blanketed the surrounding neighborhood in a sooty pall. It is one of…
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