The new draft agreement published this Friday at COP26 has generated mixed reactions: while some analysts value the greater balance between the demands to reduce emissions and the financing proposals for poor countries, environmental NGOs regret that the references to the end of hydrocarbons have been diluted in the new text. The environmental analyst Ed […]
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Spain considers the draft COP26 agreement very powerful in mitigation
Updated on 11/13/2021 09:37 am The third vice president of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, told Efe this Saturday at the COP26 that the new version of the Glasgow climate summit agreement “is very powerful on the mitigation side.” Ribera declared at the entrance of the plenary session […]
COP26: climate negotiations will drag on until Saturday
The Glasgow climate change conference (COP26) will prolong its negotiations on Saturday, the British presidency reported, after a day of intense debates around conflictive points such as financing. Delegates from 194 countries were preparing to spend a long night of technical consultations, at a decisive moment in the fight against global warming. The COP26 It […]
Record deforestation in the Amazon contradicts Brazil’s speech at COP26
The record of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in October, released this Friday, has cast doubt on the conciliatory speech of the Government of Jair Bolsonaro at the Climate Conference in Glasgow. The Brazilian Amazon, the largest rainforest on the planet, lost 877 square kilometers of vegetation cover in October, the largest area devastated for […]
COP26: What changes the China-US agreement? for Beijing?
It was the surprise of the final stretch of the COP26. Chinese and Americans announced an agreement confirming their cooperation on climate change, despite their political differences. What does this agreement mean for Beijing and how these commitments adopted in the last days of the world conference on the HIM-HER-IT about the climate in Glasgow […]
Discussion on who will pay the climate bill the agenda of the COP26 is taken
As the last day of the two-week UN climate summit approaches (COP26), delegations intensified their efforts to reach an agreement to curb global warming, focusing on finding money to help developing countries cope with the worst effects. A first draft of the COP26 agreement released on Wednesday implicitly acknowledged that current commitments were insufficient to […]
Eleven governments agree at COP26 to abandon oil and gas production
A coalition of eleven national and subnational governments agreed on Thursday at the UN COP26 climate summit to end the granting of new licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the territories under their jurisdiction. In an initiative promoted by Denmark and Costa Rica, called “Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance“(Alliance Beyond […]
Use of public transport must double to achieve 1.5 ° C
The transition to zero-emission vehicles tops a list of transport-related events at the COP26 conference in Glasgow on Wednesday. A chorus of city officials, labor leaders and policy experts urge climate negotiators not to lose sight of public transportation as a key tool in decarbonizing the transportation sector. “If national governments don’t back mayors and […]
Cities ask to double public transport trips by 2030
Updated on 11/10/2021 10:16 am The great world metropolises against climate change, gathered in the C40 group, demanded a greater state investment in public transport, up to US $ 208,000 million annually (179,600 million euros), which allows doubling the number of trips by 2030. Network C40, together with the International Federation of Transport Workers (ITF, […]
Automakers set 2040 as the deadline to end polluting vehicles
Countries and vehicle manufacturers said on Wednesday that they are willing to cease manufacturing vehicles with a combustion engine in 2040, although the top five brands in the sector did not sign the statement. The announcement came during the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, chaired by Great Britain, which ensured in the text that […]