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Sir David Attenborough handed COP26 'People's Advocate' role

Business Green

He is expected to address world leaders at a number of major events over the next six months, including next month's G7 Summit in Cornwall, as well as delivering a key speech at the Glasgow Summit itself. The epidemic has shown us how crucial it is to find agreement among nations if we are to solve such worldwide problems.

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COP15: Crucial UN biodiversity talks pushed into 2022 amid Covid-19 concerns

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China and UN confirm plans to split key negotiations for potential global treaty for biodiversity into two parts, with virtual talks set for October followed by in-person meeting next year.

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Good health depends on a stable climate. This fellowship teaches health professionals how to advocate for both.

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The vision “Medicine is a practice. And it’s not hard for people who were trained as clinicians to see that there’s another practice that they can learn, which is community organizing.” From the perils of extreme heat to the spread of infectious diseases, climate change is a health crisis.

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Climate change may be fueling a global surge in cholera outbreaks

Grist

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. percent , three times higher than the typical rate.

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Coronavirus Response: 2020 has become a watershed year in more ways than one

Business Green

Nonetheless the present epidemic is guaranteed to help combat the threat of climate change by reducing emissions - and not just in the short term. Nonetheless the present epidemic is guaranteed to help combat the threat of climate change by reducing emissions - and not just in the short term. Oil Price Fall. Demand is falling.

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COP26 Climate Summit postponed until 2021 as coronavirus fears grow

Business Green

BREAKING: With key Glasgow venue set to be turned into a field hospital, UN and UK government conclude crucial climate summit must be delayed until next year. A new date for the summit in 2021 is now due to be set out "in due course" after further discussion with all parties, the UK government said.

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2020 unmasked the truth about ‘all lives matter’

Grist

As much as this year has been about Black Lives Matter, it is also about something else: This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people. Little else can explain white people allowing 139,000 of themselves to die from COVID-19 as of late November.