That sinking feeling: Poor nations struggle with UN climate fund
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The Philippines has sought financing for seven projects from a UN environmental fund to tackle the catastrophic impact of climate change. Yet only one has secured backing since 2016, and it’s not because the $US17.3 billion fund lacks cash. Bureaucracy and a blizzard of information requests have stalled applications to the UN […]
Young pilgrims among thousands calling for climate justice at COP26
Last updated: 9am (AEDT), 13th November, 2021Glasgow, UK More than 2,000 young people have taken part in a pilgrimage across the UK in an initiative aimed at exerting pressure on politicians to respond to the climate crisis. The ‘Relay to COP26‘ pilgrimage, which started in Cornwell as the G7 met there last June and ended […]
US and China unveil emissions deal in bid to save UN climate talks
Glasgow, UKReuters The United States and China, the world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, unveiled a deal to ramp up cooperation tackling climate change, including by cutting methane emissions, phasing out coal consumption and protecting forests. US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua announced the framework agreement at the UN […]
From Gaziantep to Glasgow, Little Amal delivers seeds of hope to COP26
Glasgow, UKReuters After walking thousands of miles across Europe, a giant puppet named Little Amal reached the Glasgow COP26 talks on Tuesday to raise awareness of the plight of refugee children on the front line of climate change. On Gender Day, the 3.5 metre tall Amal – a figure representing a young Syrian girl refugee […]
Essay: How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
UK-based researchers DOUG WEIR, BENJAMIN NEIMARK and OLIVER BELCHER, look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what we do know about the contribution armed forces make to the climate crisis…
Wow!: Turning heat to cooling, Kenyan inventor cuts food waste – and adds jobs and income
LAURIE GOERING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on one of the winners of this year’s Ashden Awards, which promote low-carbon innovations in sustainable energy and development…
World heading for 2.4 degrees of warming after latest climate pledges – analysts
Glasgow, UK Reuters New national pledges to tackle climate change this decade would lead to around 2.4 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, far above safe levels, analysts predict. Climate Action Tracker said on Tuesday that the promises by countries attending the UN summit in Glasgow to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 would still […]
“My dad’s village no longer exists”, campaigners call for COP26 action on refugees
Reuters “My dad, he was born in a village that doesn’t exist anymore,” UNHCR goodwill ambassador Emtithal Mahmoud said on Monday in an appeal to world leaders to do more to support people who have been forced to flee their homes because of climate change. At the start of the second, and final, week of […]
Tuvalu minister stands in sea to film COP26 speech to show climate change
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Tuvalu’s foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to show how his low-lying Pacific island nation is on the front line of climate change. Images of Simon Kofe standing in a suit and tie at a lectern set up in the sea, […]
Focus turns to climate finance after flurry of COP26 pledges
Glasgow, UKReuters Governments will push for agreement on Monday on how to help vulnerable countries deal with global warming and compensate them for damage already done, a test of whether developing and rich nations can end a standoff over cash for climate change. At the start of a crunch week for the UN climate talks […]