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Late-Breaking Optimism in Glasgow

Climate 4.0

These dark thoughts cross my mind as the COP26 climate-abatement meeting in Glasgow wraps up today, a couple of weeks after a G20 meeting that also focused on climate change finished in Rome. So I head into this weekend with some optimism in mind, and hope for the world's climate-abatement future. Tolkien's earlier Hobbit creations.

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COP27: Summit edges towards deal on Loss and Damage, but tensions remain

Business Green

Observers warn legacy of Glasgow Climate Pact at stake as fraught climate talks enter final hours. If the draft deal and wider draft texts released by the Egyptian Presidency earlier today secure widespread backing then hopes remain that an agreement that builds on last year's Glasgow Climate Pact could yet be finalised this evening.

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From net zero factions to sewage spills: 10 green questions for the new Prime Minister

Business Green

Liz Truss may have been confirmed as the next Prime Minister, but her approach to the big energy and environmental issues facing the UK remains remarkably opaque. The Conservative Party's summer-long leadership race has finally come to a close, with Liz Truss confirmed as the fourth Prime Minister in six years.

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'Will you help us?': PM urges world leaders to hit phones in search of COP26 deal, as US and China promise late breakthrough

Business Green

With COP26 talks on a knife edge, the UK Prime Minister travelled to Glasgow today to meet with negotiating teams and urge them to thrash out an agreement over the next 48 hours that could mark "the beginning of the end of anthropogenic climate change". alive and make Paris the success that the world needs it to be.".

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Coming less than 90 days before global leaders meet in Glasgow in a bid to finalise the Paris Agreement and hammer out more ambitious international climate strategies, the IPCC report could not have landed at a more important moment. That is why this year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is so important.