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Campaigners Urge UK Government To 'Lock Out' Polluters From COP26

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins Campaigners are calling for polluters to be denied access to this year’s pivotal COP26 summit and locked out of all future UN climate talks. . Tags: COP26 fossil fuels

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

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The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.".

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Liz Truss prepares to announce energy price freeze plan

Business Green

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. The outgoing PM's sole allusion to his government's climate efforts related to increasing ambitions for UK offshore wind and nuclear power capacity, as he talked up his efforts to provide "the short and long term solutions for our energy needs".

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'This is not a scary transition': Six key takeaways from the CCC's net zero progress report

Business Green

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. They seem to be placing all of their chips on the new Net Zero Strategy that is planned before COP26. That Strategy is going to have an awful lot to do.".

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How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

Business Green

Just how much it will cost the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is the trillion-pound question at the epicentre of climate discourse at present. But the outcome of the COP26 Climate Summit could well be a crucial factor in how the costs of decarbonisation play out in the UK, he argued.

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Boris Johnson to pledge to 'build back greener'

Business Green

Let's hope the Chancellor is listening and ups the government's game next week - putting people, climate and nature front and centre of the government's recovery strategy.". However, Ed Matthew of the Climate Coalition offered a damning assessment of the Prime Minister's heavily-trailed speech.