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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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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. These attendees come to COPs as “observers” to the talks, with the hope of influencing discussions from the outside.

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COP27: EU and Turkey enhance 2030 goals, as climate negotiations edge forward

Business Green

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. Europe is staying the course. Don't let anyone tell you, here or outside, that the EU is backtracking," Timmermans told COP27 delegates. Russia's war against Ukraine will end.

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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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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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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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COP27: 'Grumpy' talks press on as US and China signal deeper climate cooperation

Business Green

On almost all of the key issues - ramping up climate finance for developing nations, doubling adaptation finance, agreeing a new loss and damage fund to support countries suffering the fallout from climate impacts, establishing certain rules governing global carbon markets, and ensuring ambitious language around the 1.5C has dwindled.