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COP26: US eyes less than $100/tonne DAC technology to hit net zero
Paris Cop president warns projected 1.8C heating limit is only hypothesis
Laurent Fabius says countries must be open and accountable about how they will deliver pledges in full
Prospects of limiting global heating to 1.8C on the basis of commitments made at the Cop26 climate summit are only “a hypothesis”, the godfather of the Paris climate agreement has warned.
Laurent Fabius, the former French prime minister who was president of the 2015 Paris summit, said he was “very impressed” by the commitments made in the first week of the Cop26 conference, including a deal to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane, a net zero target from India, plans from China to reduce emissions and commitments on coal.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on climate progress: now for the detail | Editorial
Pledges made during Cop26’s first week were encouraging. But without adequate finance and monitoring they don’t mean much
If week one of the climate conference in Glasgow set out a strong outline, the task for next week is to fill in as many details as possible. The long-term ambition of the global environmental policy now being negotiated would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. While it is not yet clear exactly where the various pledges will get us to in terms of limiting temperature rises, the new agreement on methane spearheaded by President Joe Biden and a commitment by India to get half of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 are highly significant.
Also encouraging is the more integrated approach to the many environmental challenges humanity faces. Previously, conservation and biodiversity were to some extent viewed as separate issues from the changing atmospheric chemistry that drives global heating. Now, with a promise to reverse deforestation and provide funding directly to indigenous people to help them protect their lands, there is greater recognition of the vital part that nature plays in regulating the climate.
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'Cop26 is a failure': Greta Thunberg rallies climate activists in Glasgow – video
Greta Thunberg had harsh words for world leaders and the press in a powerful speech at the end of a Fridays for Future protest in Glasgow as the first week of the Cop26 summit concluded
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Cop26: mothers from across globe demand action on air pollution
Representatives of almost 500 parent groups tell Alok Sharma their children’s health depends on cleaning up toxic air
It may have been his toughest meeting yet. A delegation of mothers from all over the world, all of whom had seen their own children suffer health damage from air pollution, met the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, on Friday morning to demand an end to fossil fuel financing.
The delegation was led by Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lost her nine-year-old daughter, Ella, to severe asthma that was officially linked to air pollution in London. She was joined by Dr Maria Neira, the director of public health at the World Health Organization (WHO), and other mothers from India, Brazil, South Africa, Poland and Nigeria, to present a letter to Sharma.
Continue reading...A strange poem for strange times: a response to Cop26 | Simon Armitage
I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, says the poet laureate
I wanted to react to Cop26 – so many of my friends and colleagues have been emboldened by the conversation it has generated. And strange times sometimes lead to strange poems.
I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, where the rules and natural laws of the old world feel to be in flux, one of those dreams which are full of danger, but not completely beyond the control of the person who sleeps.
Continue reading...‘Like a clown’: what other countries thought of Boris Johnson at Cop26
PM could not resist wheeling out the usual jokes and antics at crucial summit, but the laughs never came
It was one of the defining images from Cop26.
Seated next to Boris Johnson on Monday and wearing a mask was 95-year-old David Attenborough. The prime minister, however, was maskless. At one point, Johnson seemed to have nodded off.
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Digested week: The Atlantic can’t protect me from Boris Johnson shame | Emma Brockes
As the PM slumps around Glasgow, here in New York the maths and mayors are only getting weirder
It has been a feature o f Covid that, along with all the other bad things ushered in by the pandemic, it has opened up whole new categories of people to hate. Thought the mum you exchanged casual greetings with every morning at school drop-off was more or less sane? Turns out she believes the health authorities are lying to us and the vaccine programme is tantamount to murder. Or the friend who, before vaccines were available, was still throwing indoor parties? Or the cabinet minister and the testing contract? The world is full of lunatics, benign in good times, dangerous in bad, available, almost two years into this rolling disaster, for unprecedented levels of resentment.
Continue reading...Kenya’s water crisis leaves villagers at risk of violence and disease – in pictures
As rivers run dry, the desperate search for water has led to a rise in domestic abuse, conflict and illness
All photos by Cyril Zannettacci/Agence Vu for Action Against Hunger
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'We're in this together': why I'm protesting at Cop26 – video
As world leaders and their negotiators attempt to thrash out a plan to avert climate catastrophe at the Cop26 summit, thousands of activists have gathered in Glasgow to protest against inaction and false promises.
From challenging the concept of net zero to highlighting the difficulties faced by Indigenous communities, protesters explain why they have taken to the streets and what they hope to achieve
- Why the world is getting hotter and how you can help – video explainer
- Indigenous activists on tackling the climate crisis – video
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a baby orangutan, wandering rhino and competing pelicans
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How the climate crisis is forcing Americans to relocate – video
In the last few years, hurricanes and flooding have devastated parts of the American south. Smoke-billowing wildfires have torn through millions of acres of the west coast. In the south-west, people are suffering through record droughts. Sections of the US are becoming increasingly inhospitable. Adam Gabbatt investigates how these dramatic shifts in the climate are forcing Americans to relocate at alarming rates
Cop26: Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030 – day five live
Follow events at the climate summit in Glasgow for day five
- ‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit
- Cop26 pledges could limit warming to 1.8C, says energy agency boss
It is, among other things, oceans day here in Glasgow.
As the “blue finance” roundtable kicks off this morning, looking at how to invest in ocean resilience to tackle climate risk, the Guardian’s Seascape project – for which I am the editor, hello! – has published Part 2 of a deep dive (sorry) into so-called “blue carbon”.
Continue reading...The climate crisis is just another form of global oppression by the rich world | George Monbiot
At Cop26 the wealthy nations cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice
The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.
Competition for control of other people’s lands led to repeated wars between the colonising nations. New doctrines – racial categorisation, ethnic superiority and a moral duty to “rescue” other people from their “barbarism” and “depravity” – were developed to justify the violence. These doctrines led, in turn, to genocide.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...COP26: Emissions of rich put climate goals at risk - study
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