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UN chief: Fossil fuel firms without credible net zero plans 'should not be in business'

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The world's top diplomat used a speech today at the UN headquarters in New York City to deliver a characteristically stark warning of the impending climate and biodiversity crises facing the world, noting global warming risks "hurtling past" the 1.5C threshold without urgent action this decade.

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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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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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'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.

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

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For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And so they fought.

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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 It is because climate is central to geopolitics, that the UK's Integrated Review established tackling climate change and biodiversity loss as the UK's top international priority. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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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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And, echoing the demands of many developing nations, Guterres stressed that progress on Loss and Damage - a thorny issue surrounding new forms funding for climate vulnerable nations facing the brunt of global warming impacts - should serve as a "litmus test" for the success of COP27 as a whole. It is a moral imperative.