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UAE promises to allow climate protests at COP28

Official permission is required for protests in the Gulf nation, which is hosting UN climate talks this year.

Al Jazeera

So what if fossil fuel lobbyists have to declare themselves at Cop28? That won’t curb their power

Oil and gas companies don’t just have a seat at the Cop table: they are in charge of the table, says climate journalist Amy Westervelt

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to a media inquiry

The Guardian - UK

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Countries must put aside national interests for climate crisis, UN says

Simon Stiell tells conference in Bonn the world is at ‘tipping point’ and must fight together for common good

The Guardian - UK

UAE-France Program to Accelerate Clean Energy Development

The UAE and France agreed to launch a bilateral program that combines French and Emirati expertise to develop commercial and investable opportunities that accelerate clean energy development, notably in the decarbonization of hard-to-abate (HTA) industries, including clean hydrogen solutions for mobility. The program's operations will be officially launched during COP28,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

COP27: The good, bad and the ugly

COP27 could be called largely uninspiring; a plateau in progress marked by periodic bright points. It also represented an effective transition to a new dynamic as the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) moved beyond negotiations to a broader coalition of those willing to implement…

Bangkok Post

COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits?

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization and planetary ecosystems. Yet despite 27 UN Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings that have taken place so far, the international community has been unable to ward off imminent disaster.

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Gordon Brown says China must pay into climate fund for poor countries

Former prime minister says US and Europe will pay biggest share of loss and damage fund, but China must too

The Guardian - UK

NZ is on climate glide time

Many firsts were achieved at COP27 to which Aotearoa enthusiastically signed up, but we have a chasm between climate commitment and action.

Newsroom.co.nz

Cop27: is it right to talk of ‘reparations’?

Negotiations are centred on ‘loss and damages’ – but some think that language does not fully account for climate debt

The Guardian - UK

‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists

Campaigners who interrupted US president’s speech had passes revoked after they put ‘lives in danger’

The Guardian - UK

EU reversal of stance on loss and damage turns tables on China at Cop27

China is responsible for more cumulative emissions than any country other than the US

The Guardian - UK

‘Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop27 climate summit

Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year

The Guardian - UK

Factbox-Countries and rival interests at the COP27 climate talks

Each of the 197 signatories to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has its own concerns and interests, which makes reaching consensus a daunting challenge.

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The Conversation

COP27: three reasons rich countries can no longer ignore calls to pay developing world for climate havoc

Payments from high-emitting countries to mitigate the harm that climate change has caused in the most vulnerable parts of the world is finally on the agenda for discussion at a global climate change summit, more than 30 years after the idea was first articulated by delegates from small island developing…

Reuters

Climate talks must wrench attention from competing crises

This year's U.N. climate conference must wrench global leaders' attention back to global warming as multiple crises, including a looming global recession and war in Europe, vie for attention, former U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa told Reuters.

The Guardian - UK

Loss and damage issue keeps us Cop27 negotiators wrangling late into the night

Developing countries hope to make progress on this problem because we are already suffering the effects

The Guardian - UK

IPCC, methane and carbon offsetting: Cop27 jargon buster

World leaders meeting for UN climate talks in Egypt are under pressure to take action. Here are some commonly used terms and what they mean

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Phony Environmentalism Comes to Sports

Qatar’s World Cup is the latest—and most high-profile—example of greenwashing to hit the industry.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 alarm as Boris Johnson plans to attend Cop27 climate summit

Ex-PM’s Cop27 visit is seen as snub to Sunak as Labour attacks government’s policy failures on environmental crisis

Tribune News Service

Earth’s on track to warm above 2C despite climate action

Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions aren’t enough to avoid catastrophic global warming, with the planet on track to heat up between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times, according to a new report from the United Nations Framework Convention on…

The Hindu

What it will take to avert a global climate catastrophe

The Global Stocktake of 2023 is a major opportunity for emerging economies and least developed countries to call richer countries to account.

The Hindu

India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution to combat climate change

The updated NDC is a step towards India’s goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2070.

The Guardian - UK

Egyptian NGOs complain of being shut out of Cop27 climate summit

Civil society groups say covert screening process excluded government’s critics

Bangkok Post

Manchin's small step a big leap for mankind

On a celebratory night in late 2016, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower were lit up in green to remind the world to implement the Paris climate agreement. Yet in recent years, climate legislation in the United States has been stuck at a red light, most recently because…

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