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COP27: Frustration builds at lack of progress on fossil fuels, 1.5C goal, and nature

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Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

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

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Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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'Nothing short of critical': Fraught G20 climate talks intensify pressure for progress ahead of COP26

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"We recall our collective commitment to hold the global average temperature increase well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C are much lower than at 2C," states. The group called for action on habitat loss, land degradation, marine plastic litter, sustainable water management and ocean health. "I

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Collective interest should spur us to deliver at COP27

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That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. degrees limit within two decades.

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COP27: Sunak declares climate action 'right thing to do', but absence of fresh pledges mars start of Summit

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As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It

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The Net Zero Strategy: The Reaction

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Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one. Overall, the global goal of net-zero by 2050 needs to be matched by an equally clear global goal of net positivity for nature.".