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Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, writes Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB). This summer we have seen heatwaves sparking devastating wildfires in Greece, Italy and Spain. And we have witnessed heavy rainfall leading to terrible flooding in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. But
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The race to zero is also a race to a better future This year’s UN Climate Change Conference brings the world together under a unifying challenge: a Race to Zero; that is, for industry, municipalities, investors and institutions to commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at latest – writes
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The fossil record over the last 178 million years – since mammals first appeared – reveals that the average mammalian species exists for about a million years before it evolves into something else or vanishes into extinction. Of our allotted lifespan of a million years, humanity has been around for about 200,000. In
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In the week since COP26 wrapped up, there has been much reflection on the results. Have we done enough to ward off looming disaster? Some progress was certainly made, but it must be put into context. Before the summit, there was a strong recommendation from the IPCC to focus on immediate
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The Center For Science and Environment (Delhi) is one of many climate advocacy groups whose verdict on COP26 is that it fell short. This is its assessment. “Has the Glasgow Climate Pact succeeded in going far enough to keep the world below a 1.5°C temperature rise – necessary to ensure that
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At the Glasgow climate summit, close to 200 countries committed to revisit and strengthen 2030 emissions reductions plan next year – just keeping alive the 1.5°C temperature ambition. India pushed though a last-minute intervention to water-down the language on coal. The commitment made, however, is unprecedented and historic – subsidies will
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As the clock ticks down on COP26, the scramble to reach a meaningful agreement is intense. At previous meetings, the deadline has been exceeded, sometimes by days, in the final frantic effort to find an agreed form of words. Here is our guide to the likely sticking points. Money matters Developed countries have
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John Kerry, the US climate envoy has called for COP26 to continue as planned, despite demands from 1,500 NGOs for the conference to be postponed. The environmental groups, that include Greenpeace, said that it would be too difficult for the developing countries to be appropriately represented, because of Covid-related travel
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Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of
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Newly relaxed rules will allow unvaccinated travellers to attend the COP26 conference in November. The special relaxation of the coronavirus rules has been agreed by the Scottish and UK governments so that thousands more people will be able to attend the event than had recently been estimated. Organisers estimate that 20-25,000
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