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Three things that could make COP27 a success

Business Green

EY's Steve Varley sets out his expectations and hopes for the pivotal climate talks that kick off on Sunday. Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Despite this backdrop, it is vital that we have a high ambition for what we will achieve together.

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Our Best of 2023 Has Your Holiday Reading Covered

DeSmogBlog

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. billion in support provided since 2009. This year saw was the biggest COP ever, with over 84,000 participants, and among the assembled masses were a record number of lobbyists for industrial agriculture companies and trade groups.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science?

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Is the UK providing its 'fair share' of global climate finance?

Business Green

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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'Overdelivered on the politics, but underdelivered on the science': The experts' take on COP26

Business Green

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. The cumulative impact of all the newly submitted national climate plans fell far short of meeting the 1.5C

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

The UN Climate Change Conference is only a few months away, and to say that expectations are high would be an understatement. What are the big priorities for COP? She believed good progress was being made on Adaptation (the effort to secure protection for habitats and communities against the effects of climate change).

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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.