The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Tuesday a plan to protect forests globally that will include “all the tools of the US Government: political, diplomatic and financial“, In an act about”Forests and Land”At the COP26 climate summit. Biden assured that the plan will be “the first of its kind”And, with the […]
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Climate agreements always fail before they succeed
By David Fickling The history of the United Nations conferences on climate change is one of failure. That comes with the territory. If a single meeting solved all the problems to avoid catastrophic global warming, there would be no need for any further action. That’s the best way to think about the disappointing outcome of […]
Ministers of Chile and Canada call COP26 to set a real price for carbon emissions
Updated on 11/01/2021 10:55 am Chile’s energy minister and Canadian environment minister are among the signatories of a letter asking COP26 negotiators to put a real price on carbon emissions, a supervised panel reported Monday. by the World Bank. World leaders began arriving at the conference on Monday COP26 of the UN, considered fundamental to […]
World leaders called to “save humanity” at climate summit in Glasgow
Leaders from more than 120 nations gathered in Glasgow on Monday under pressure to “save mankind”In the face of the challenge of climate change, in the words of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. The Glasgow summit precedes the decisive negotiations at COP26, the climate conference of the HIM-HER-IT. An appointment that cannot be allowed […]
What are the most important issues at COP26?
The climate summit of United Nations of this year, the COP26, renews an urgent question for the international community: can the world unite to confront the common enemy of global warming before it is too late? The talks that begin on Sunday in Scotland have always been surrounded by a halo of tension, but the […]
Who is who at COP26?
Political leaders, activists, organizations and companies from more than 200 countries meet at the COP26 from Glasgow (Scotland) to try to advance the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement. These will be the main protagonists of the summit: – Political protagonists: Joe Biden: One of Biden’s first steps as president of the United States was […]
The world tries to limit the damage when greenhouse gases hit a record high
The concentration of greenhouse gases hit a record last year and the world is “very far” from slowing the rise in temperatures, said the United Nations (UN), a warning of the tough task to be faces the climate discussion in Glasgow to avoid dangerous levels of warming. A report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) […]
Who finances the fight against the climate crisis? All and none
Governments, companies and multilateral organizations must finance the fight against the climate crisis, although there is a lack of concreteness, as was clear last Thursday at the forum “Making climate action count”, organized by the World Bank (WB). A few weeks before the climate conference starts in November COP26 in Glasgow (the United Kingdom), the […]
G20 climate talks stall ahead of COP26
Updated on 10/16/2021 03:07 am The world’s major economies are stalled in their efforts to agree on concrete steps to tackle climate change just a couple of weeks before a crucial summit begins in Rome, according to three people familiar with the matter. Preparatory talks between officials of the G20 This week they did not […]
Tough decisions ahead for finance chiefs and their climate promises
In the main speeches and communiqués of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) This week in Washington, one word was ubiquitous: weather. Two weeks from the summit of climate change COP26 from Glasgow, the hierarchs pledged to take action to meet global climate goals of keeping temperature […]