Top news of the week: 03.11.2021.
Climate
Interactive: Who wants what at the COP26 climate change summit
In an interactive table, Carbon Brief lists priority agenda items and “red lines” for various negotiating alliances at the talks, such as AOSIS, BASIC and the EU.
Biden plan pledges ‘largest effort to combat climate change in US history’
Hundreds of billions to be poured into clean energy, electric vehicles and flood defenses, officials say – but some key parts left out
State of Climate Action 2021: Systems Transformations Required to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires far-reaching transformations across power generation, buildings, industry, transport, land use, coastal zone management, and agriculture, as well ...
New financing mechanism will boost international response to climate change
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) are to announce at COP26 a new United Nations Coalition Fund to ...
There is no planet B: tackling climate change demands a sustainable, inclusive recovery from COVID
Over the last year LSE’s Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative has explored the direction the world could, and should, be taking after the pandemic. In this first special summary piece, ...
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science. Now, CEOs are testifying ...
Cop26: Biden urges action on climate change and vows US will ‘lead by example’
‘Right now, we are falling short,’ US president says, urging other world leaders to embark upon a shift to clean energy
COP26 summit: World can learn from US states who defied Donald Trump over climate change – Nicola Sturgeon and Mike Bloomberg
In a single summer, the world watched in horror as wildfires burned through large swathes of Greece, South Africa, California, and even Siberia.