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Time for adaptation?

Envirotec Magazine

“The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation. Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least.

COP 130
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WoodMac: Emerging Solar Markets to Come of Age in 2020s

GreenTechMedia

Cumulative global solar installations have now surpassed 600 gigawatts, from around 20 gigawatts at the end of 2009. In 2009, China accounted for 2 percent of global installations. Reflecting on the 2010s. In the 2010s, solar defied expectations. Just eight years later, it claimed more than half of the market.

COP 130
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Defend Our Future Goes Abroad

Defend Our Future

For many years, young people were left out of formal negotiations and workshops at COP, but that changed with the creation of the Conference of Youth (COY) in 2005 and YOUNGO, the official children and youth constituency of UNFCCC in 2009. This statement is both functional and symbolic.

COP 52
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Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

DeSmogBlog

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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UK Climate Minister Pulls Out of Event with Climate Science Deniers

DeSmogBlog

This government, which still holds the COP Presidency, continues to share the stage with individuals and organisations that are undermining national and global attempts to tackle the climate crisis, despite UK citizens being shown to be committed to more urgent action”, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer told DeSmog.

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Alok Sharma to call on IMF and World Bank to ramp up climate finance

Business Green

In a speech that has been billed as his last in his role as COP president, Sharma is set to outline the climate finance priorities ahead of the climate talks taking place next month, where the UK will officially hand over the COP presidency to host nation Egypt.

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COP26: Postpone, virtual, or as you were?

Business Green

It's the first time that both conventions have had 'super-summits' in the same year, with China due to host the CBD in October and the UK the climate COP in November. And so, perhaps, will the Glasgow COP. See where I'm going with this? That's right. The wording is very explicit: these things should happen 'by 2020', not 'by COP26'.