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

Business Green

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

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Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The North American Meat Institute will host a side event at the US COP pavilion on December 11, the summit’s Agriculture Day, for example. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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'Climate action is finally coming home on African soil': COP27 closes with historic deal on climate Loss and Damage

Business Green

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough. warming target.

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Taking the positives from COP26

Business Green

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. But whether or not the historic reference to fossil fuels is retained, this has been the COP where governments, investors, and businesses made it clearer than ever that the fossil fuel age is slowly drawing to a close.

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Glasgow Climate Pact: Green economy reacts to final COP26 agreement

Business Green

Dubbed the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement crucially puts pressure on countries to come foward next year with updated climate plans, promises more funding for climate adaptation, and for the first time ever includes explicit references to the need to drive down coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Phase out coal. degrees. "I

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In defence of COP26

Business Green

That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed. Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. If COPs did not exist you would have to invent them.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Business played a larger and more significant role at the Glasgow COP than any before it.