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What the COP26 climate conference really accomplished

The U.N. climate summit ended with calls on governments to return next year with tougher pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Nations made new pledges on methane gas pollution, deforestation, ...
Forbes

Bold Action Fueled COP26’s Zero-Emission Vehicles Declaration. Even Bolder Action Is Needed To Deploy Clean Cars Fast Enough To Save The Climate

Last month’s COP26 climate summit generated many pledges and declarations that gained international headlines, but one in particular marks a turning point—the first global pledge to accelerate the ...
Forbes

COP26 – Another Failure For The Planet

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP26 wraps up today in Glasgow without ever really discussing nuclear power. As COP26 wraps up today, the elephant in the room was why nuclear ...
JD Supra

Not Just CO2 and Anti-climax: Tackling Methane Emissions is a Further Challenge for the Petroleum Industry in the Wake of COP26

The Global Methane Pledge (GMP) was one of the few headline commitments announced at COP26. The response to the GMP indicates that tackling methane emissions is now firmly on the agenda for the ...
CNBC

COP26 climate summit switches focus to science and innovation

The coverage on this live blog is now over. International lawmakers, business leaders and activists convened in Glasgow, U.K. on Tuesday in the final week of the COP26 climate summit. Delegates have ...
YES! Magazine

Whose Voices Are (and Aren’t) Being Heard at COP26?

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. “COP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated ...
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COP26 Presents Historic Opportunity for a More Sustainable Future, Say Presidents of U.S. National Academies

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
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The Battle for Coal at COP26

On November 4, 2021, 45 countries and the European Union pledged to “accelerate a transition away from unabated coal power generation.” The statement is broad, more of a declaration than a firm ...
World Socialist Web Site

COP26 climate summit ends in failure

As the global climate summit COP26 drags out to its miserable end this week in Glasgow, Scotland, the major capitalist powers and the banks and corporations that call the shots in national and world ...
CNN

Global day of action to demand climate justice

Our live coverage of the protests has ended. Read up on the latest news below. Hundreds of thousands of people are understood to have turned out for climate protests across the world. In Glasgow alone ...
The Grio

The Weather Channel’s Paul Goodloe says Black people ‘need to have a seat at the table’ at COP26

COP26 is entering its second week to foster conversations about climate change and The Weather Channel veteran Paul Goodloe believes that Black people should be part of the discourse. “We’re on the ...
CNN

China surprises climate summit with pledge to work with US, but doesn’t budge on climate goals

The US and China surprised the COP26 climate summit on Wednesday when representatives of the countries announced an agreement to ramp up their climate ambitions, just days before the end of the ...