Climate Summit

The UN climate summit ended in bitterness and accusations of betrayal. Now fears are growing for its future

CNN — This year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan kicked off with a fulsome celebration of fossil fuels, praised by the country’s president Ilham Aliyev as a “gift of God.” It ended with a climate finance deal developing countries called an insult, a joke and a betrayal. The question at COP29 was how much …

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Egypt Independent November 28, 2024

These small words could make or break the global climate summit

CNN — The thorniest issue at the global climate summit in Dubai is clear: Fossil fuels. More precisely, the role they should play in our rapidly warming future. As negotiators thrash out the terms of core agreements that will emerge from COP28, the big question is whether countries will ultimately agree to a phase-out of …

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Egypt Independent December 7, 2023

The world has ground to make up at climate summit in Dubai after a year of ‘backsliding’

CNN — Climate chaos spared no region this year. Canada burned, the US Southwest boiled, a Libyan city was swept away by floods and global heat was, as one scientist said, “gobsmackingly bananas.” Climate records fell like dominoes, and more are predicted — it is all but certain that 2023 will be the hottest in …

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Egypt Independent December 1, 2023

‘Stand and deliver,’ UN chief tells COP27 climate summit

Negotiators at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt must overcome a “breakdown in trust” between rich and poor nations to deliver a deal to save the world from the worst … Continued

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The New Daily November 18, 2022

King ‘ordered’ to skip climate summit by British PM

The King will not attend an international COP27 climate change summit in Egypt next month, after advice from new British Prime Minister Liz Truss. Buckingham Palace confirmed the King would … Continued