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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This was coupled with another statement , that of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which also recognized the importance of limiting warming to below 2ºC. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year.

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

Business Green

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened.