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Here's why Alok Sharma, the UK COP26 President, apologised for the final agreement in Glasgow
This article is written by David Adams and was published originally on Business Insider Australia. …
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What are the two climate declarations India has been hesitant to sign at COP28?
India shares an often odd, yet powerful presence among the COP nations. Despite being classified as…
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Video shows Greta Thunberg mobbed at Glasgow train station ahead of COP26 climate summit
World leaders, including President Joe Biden and President Emmanuel Macron, will meet at COP26, the…
Bill Bostock
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Doctors advise Queen Elizabeth II to rest for 2 weeks and cancel all official visits
The 95-year-old monarch recently stayed in hospital overnight and has had to cancel her appearance …
Bethany Dawson
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Obama appeared to confuse Scotland with Ireland, then quoted Shakespeare - a playwright from England - in his COP26 speech
Former President Barack Obama addressed attendees at the UN-led COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotla…
Bill Bostock
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So many fossil fuel industry reps went to COP26 that they outnumber the delegates from any single country
503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the event, outnumbering the biggest national group - the the 479…
Bill Bostock
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Indigenous communities demanded more action to combat climate change at largest protest in Glasgow history during COP26
The protest was organized by a UK-based climate justice alliance and set forth a list of demands fo…
Morgan Keith
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COP26 is looking like a historic failure after the world's biggest polluters snubbed the summit and even rich nations failed to deliver
Without a big turnaround in the progress of the COP26 summit on climate change, it looks likely to …
Thomas Colson
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Biden's motorcade encountered 'a large, naked Scottish man' taking pictures on its way to the COP26 conference
President Joe Biden spent two days with world leaders at the COP26 climate change conference in Gla…
Sophia Ankel
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2 agreements from the COP26 conference pledge major cuts to deforestation and methane emissions, as leaders scramble to address the climate crisis
World leaders are meeting at the COP26 climate summit, where many nations agreed to limit cutting d…
Sinéad Baker
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Israel's energy minister said she couldn't attend the start of COP26 because her wheelchair couldn't get in
Karine Elharrar was stuck outside the Glasgow venue on Monday. After two hours of trying, she said …
Sinéad Baker
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China's Xi Jinping contributes only a written note to the COP26 climate conference, pushing the world's biggest polluter further to the margins
Xi Jinping declined to attend this week's climate change summit. The UK is said to be restricting a…
Thomas Colson
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The lines to get into the COP26 climate summit are so long that government officials are missing meetings, report says
Entry to the UN's COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, is chaotic and long, according to peop…
Sinéad Baker
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'They are liars or they are stupid': Arnold Schwarzenegger attacks world leaders over climate policies, arguing that cutting emissions can also boost the economy
Schwarzenegger pointed to the economy of California, where he was governor, to argue that high envi…
Marianne Guenot
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251 medical journals warned world leaders not to wait until COVID-19 is over to address the climate crisis, calling it the 'greatest threat to global public health'
In a rare joint article, the editors urged politicians to fund climate crisis action as they did wi…
Mia Jankowicz
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Boris Johnson flies by jet to the G7 summit in Cornwall in order to tell world leaders about 'tackling climate change'
Official figures show the decision to take a plane rather than a train to the summit will produce f…
Henry Dyer
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Delegates and activists say accommodation issues at COP26 could lead to power imbalance in the negotiation rooms
Canceled bookings and overpriced hotels have left representatives staying in the houses of local re…
Parisa Hashempour
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AOC won the adoration of Scotland by praising its sugary national soda, Irn Bru, at COP26
Ocasio-Cortez tried the regional soda Irn-Bru and declared: "Oh my god, I love it." She also compar…
Thomas Colson
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As the COP26 climate conference begins, here's a look at what life is like in one of the hottest cities on earth
Over the past few decades, on several occasions, temperatures and humidity levels have reached a th…
Alia Shoaib
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Wolf Blitzer was mocked for anchoring CNN's COP26 climate conference coverage from the wrong city
Veteran CNN broadcaster Wolf Blitzer was in Edinburgh to cover COP26, although the summit is taking…