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Australia at COP26 diary

John Englart

UN climate conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) is ocurring in Glasgow from Monday November 1 to Friday November 12, 2021 (but may also go overtime into the weekend). This is my digital diary of Australia at COP26. I may not be able to be present in Glasgow but I can still follow whats going on.

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Holding Businesses to Account Now: Using CDCs to Address the Climate Emergency

GreenBiz

The private sector accounts for the majority of global emissions, but at present, business progress and delivery against decarbonization targets, ambitions and aims is not being captured.

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On Twitter, fossil fuel companies’ climate misinformation is subtle – here’s what I’m seeing during COP26

Environmental News Bits

s Glasgow climate conference, they often presented themselves as part of the solution to climate change and talked about energy security. by Jill Hopke, DePaul University When oil and gas companies took to Twitter during the first half of the U.N.’s

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Many boardrooms around the world are presented with net-zero goals. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high. Goals, targets and commitments are worthless without accountability and enforcement — and that goes for countries as well as companies. Many are asked to nod to those goals.

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COP26 presented forests as a climate solution, but may not be able to keep them standing

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from Inside Climate News. The deal to limit deforestation and boost tree planting is only a small step toward slowing global warming, and key nations show few signs of adhering to the pact. Read more →

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Nature-based solutions key to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss, says Lords

Envirotec Magazine

Lord Patel said COP26 is “the perfect opportunity to highlight on the world stage the importance of nature-based solutions.” ” (image credit: ukhouseoflords , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 For example the restoration of the UK’s degraded peatlands, which efficiently lock away carbon while hosting a unique array of biodiversity.

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Observers reflect on a disappointing COP26

Envirotec Magazine

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). While COP25 in Madrid had seen the launch of many such schemes by big polluters like Shell, Total and BP, with COP26 we could now see these schemes taking a central place in the draft agreement. Carbon capture.

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