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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

According to a report by the London-based NGO Global Witness, 503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. The behemoth task of changing UN policy Figueress predecessor, Yvo de Boer, who helmed the UNFCCC from 2006 through 2010, sees it differently. Shes changed her mind. Is it perfect?

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Meet the Climate Scientists Taking Arctic Icebergs-in-a-Bottle to Glastonbury

3BL Media

They’ve taken these bottles ( as well as a four-tonne melting iceberg from Greenland ) and set up camp (literally) at a handful of world events such as COP26 , the Davos World Economic Forum, and, in a matter of days, Glastonbury. Tell me more about the bottled water you took to COP26. OK, now for the actually serious stuff.

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European Commission launches proposals to reach 55% emissions reduction by 2030

Sustainable Development Network

Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow. One of the key points of debate at COP26 will revolve around the role of carbon removal by natural sinks in the calculation of ‘net’ carbon emissions. in 2010 to 9.3%

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Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Richard Matthews

Russia has lost its ‘most favored nation’ status and Russian airplanes and ships are banned in many countries. At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035. We have also seen sanctions against individual Russian oligarchs.