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'Promote international co-operation in health': UK and China hint at opportunity for COP Summits

Business Green

Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. They are good opportunities for the two sides to promote international cooperation in health and epidemic prevention".

COP 69
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Tortuous progress: Key takeaways from COP28

Envirotec Magazine

December’s COP28 event in Dubai took place against a backdrop of global emissions continuing to rise at a rate of 1.5% Fossil fuels were mentioned for the first time in a COP text two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow. Commentators were concerned about the decisive role seemingly prepared for carbon removal technologies.

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Ocean change is exacerbating the climate crisis

Envirotec Magazine

A stratified ocean has multiple negative effects from driving an increase in marine heatwaves and extreme weather events to a reduction in the ocean’s ability to take up carbon and a change in ocean circulation. Accelerate and integrate the efficacy of climate/biodiversity actions to achieve greater impact and effect.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Her work with an NGO on the Pacific island of Vanuatu has made her mindful of what might seem an incommensurable cultural and psychological gulf between indigenous groups and the formalities that perhaps hold sway in a modern, western-dominated forum like COP.

COP 130
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COP26 postponed: The reaction

Business Green

However, the decision to postpone now leaves huge question marks about global governments' ability to ramp up climate action in 2020 in order to keep the Paris Agreement on track, and also as to whether Glasgow will remain the host of the event if and when it does eventually take place next year.