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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.

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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. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Climate policy momentum builds as US and EU embark on clean energy 'race to the top'

Business Green

Specifically, it highlighted progress at EU level to expand the bloc's emissions trading scheme (ETS), develop a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), set dates to phase out fossil fuel vehicles, and reform planning and grid connection processes to to fast-track new renewables projects.

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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

The final text of the agreement confirmed the adoption of historic plans to introduce a new fundiung mechanism to help climate vulnerable nations cope with climate-related Loss and Damage, marking a sizeable victory for nations from the Global South. This COP has taken an important step towards justice. Ambition to keep the 1.5

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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 is closing fast.