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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Collective interest should spur us to deliver at COP27

Business Green

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And they could see the effects of our warming world around them. Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power. degrees limit within two decades.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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G20 reaffirms commitment to Paris Agreement's 1.5C temperature goal

Business Green

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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'Our planet is still in the emergency room': All the reaction to the COP27 deal

Business Green

This COP has taken an important step towards justice. We need to drastically reduce emissions now - and this is an issue this COP did not address. But they were ignored by the Egyptian COP Presidency. Ambition to keep the 1.5 degree limit alive and pull humanity back from the climate cliff. But let's be clear.

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COP26: Nations set out climate demands as crunch Glasgow talks step-up a gear

Business Green

US re-joins High Ambition Coalition, as snap analysis suggests commitments made in Glasgow could bring global warming trajectories down below 2C for the first time. warming pathway. Nick Mabey, co-founder and CEO of climate think tank E3G, said the HAC grouping "makes the political weather at COP".

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

Business Green

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C