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☆ Analysis: COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn for climate justice'
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Megan Rowling | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
Yeb Saño, head of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said the fund's approval "marks a new dawn for climate justice." While the loss and damage fund would not be enough to deal with growing climate losses, "it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust" between rich and poor nations, he said in a video statement. Their opposition was rooted in fears of being held financially liable for the impacts of their historically high greenhouse gas emissions. FOSSIL FUELS MISSINGPolitical figures had urged countries at COP27 to set aside geopolitical fights in order to keep climate action on track. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, global climate and energy lead for environmental group WWF, who presided over COP20 in Peru, said leaders had missed the chance in Egypt to speed up the rapid and deep emissions cuts essential to limit climate damage.
☆ Analysis: Climate damage fund trumps 1.5C push as COP27 summit nears end
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Megan Rowling | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
The focus on loss and damage certainly reflects that," said David Waskow, director of the international climate initiative at the U.S.-based World Resources Institute. Since COP26, only about 30 countries have strengthened their national plans to cut fossil fuel emissions. FOSSIL FUEL OMISSION? Progress toward reducing fossil fuel use - and the resulting climate-warming emissions - was less clear in the proposed deal. "Unabated" fuels are those whose emissions are not captured in some way to prevent them entering the atmosphere and adding to climate change.
☆ COP27: More countries join methane pact as focus turns to farms and waste
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Valerie Volcovici | Laurie Goering | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The United States and the EU launched the Global Methane Pledge during the Glasgow climate talks last year. China is developing its own methane strategy but has not yet said whether it will join the global effort. Fifty of the signatories to the Global Methane Pledge have so far unveiled detailed strategies to cut emissions. The United States and EU will also launch other initiatives on Thursday under the Global Methane Pledge that tackle oil and gas, agriculture and waste sectors. The United States and EU also announced that Carbon Mapper, which tracks methane by satellite, will develop a global waste sector methane baseline assessment on landfills and dumpsites.
☆ Activists block private jet traffic at Schiphol Airport
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Laurie Goering | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
[1/5] Climate activists protest against environmental pollution from aviation at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, in Schiphol, Netherlands November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Piroschka van de WouwAMSTERDAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Environmental activists rushed onto the area where private jets are kept at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday in an attempt to block them from departing. Hundreds of people had gathered in and around the airport for a demonstration against pollution organized by Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion. No delays in commercial flights were reported as of the early afternoon. Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Toby ChopraOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Explainer: What the latest IPCC science says about climate change
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Laurie Goering | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces reports roughly every five years that represent global scientific consensus on climate change, its causes and its impact. Last year's report tackled the main drivers of global warming and the core elements of climate science. Here are some of the key takeaways from those reports:THE SCIENCE REPORT* Last year's report on the physical basis for climate change pulled no punches, stating unequivocally that humans are to blame for rising temperatures. * It also warned that climate change was already dangerously close to spinning out of control. * Millions of people face poverty and food insecurity in coming years, as climate change hits crops and water supplies and threatens to disrupt trade and labor markets.
☆ Australia, Pacific nations to bid to co-host 2026 UN climate summit
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Laurie Goering | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
SYDNEY, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Australia will launch a bid with Pacific nations to host the United Nations climate summit in 2026, its energy minister said on Saturday, as the new labour government seeks to position the country as a renewable energy powerhouse on the global stage. The government also reinstated the role of the Ambassador for Climate Change, appointing Kristin Tilley, who it said has over a decade of experience with climate change policy, to work with other countries to tackle the climate crisis. We're back at the International table," Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy, said of the bid for COP31 at a press conference in Sydney,"It's an opportunity to work closely with our Pacific family, and we will seek to co-host the bid with the Pacific to help elevate the case of the Pacific for more climate action." Australia has lagged developed countries on its climate action, with the former government of Scott Morrison resisting pressure to set more ambitious carbon emission targets at last year's Glasgow climate summit. Bowen is leading Australia's delegation to attend COP27 climate summit in Egypt from Nov. 6 to 18, the first such summit for the newly elected labour government that came into office in May.
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