Pakistan, speaking on behalf of the “Group of 77” developing countries as well as China, has called for “immediate action” to reverse global environmental harm, claiming that a healthy environment is crucial to people’s health, safety, and livelihoods. “A degraded planet poses severe limits to our well-being and prosperity as well as for our future,” … Read more
DUBAI: Nissan is eco-friendly but also consumer-led, a top official from the Japanese automaker said in the wake of the company not signing a COP26 global pledge to phase out gas-guzzling cars, Arab News reported. As many as 30 national governments joined the deal struck in Glasgow last month, as the transportation industry races to fix decades … Read more
GLASGOW: UN climate talks headed towards a rocky conclusion Friday after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the emissions-cutting plans needed to limit global warming to 1.5C. “The world is watching us”, COP26 President Alok Sharma told delegates charged with keeping the Paris Agreement temperature goals alive even … Read more
GLASGOW: The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released Monday at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. Even if global temperature rises are capped at 1.5C, in keeping with the most ambitious … Read more
GLASGOW: Thousands of youth activists were preparing to descend on Glasgow on Friday to protest against what they say is a dangerous lack of action by leaders at the COP26 climate summit. Demonstrations are expected across the Scottish city to highlight the disconnect between the glacial pace of emissions reductions and the climate emergency already … Read more
LONDON – “Shameless.” “Sleazy.” “Guilty.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced damning headlines on Thursday that cast his government in a dismal light just as he browbeats world powers to show moral leadership over climate change. The government tore up the rulebook on how parliament polices ethical lapses by its members Wednesday, after an excoriating cross-party … Read more
GLASGOW: Nineteen countries, including the United States, vowed Thursday to end direct funding for all unabated overseas fossil fuel projects by 2022, though major coal, oil and gas funders China, Japan and South Korea were absent from the pledge. G20 nations last month agreed to end financial support for new unabated coal plants abroad, but … Read more
PARIS: As warnings have intensified about the massive damage that climate change will have on the world in the coming decades, big business has started to make commitments to reduce carbon emissions. But are these companies making a genuine attempt to fight global warming, or simply “greenwashing” their brands to try to divert criticism while … Read more
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called this week’s UN Climate Change Summit, COP26, which kicks off in Glasgow, a “turning point for humanity”. Unfortunately, in the last few days, the normally Tiggerish Johnson has also warned that getting the world’s governments to agree on binding commitments to radically reset Earth’s climate trajectory, is … Read more
Pope Francis on Friday said in a message released ahead of the COP26 summit that leaders must respond “urgently” to the climate crisis. “The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow, are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis,” the Pope said in a message played on BBC … Read more
The critical UN Climate Conference of Parties (COP26) scheduled to take place in Glasgow, in November, postponed until 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. “The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19,” stated an official message by the UN Framework Convention … Read more
