Eligible COP26 attendees are expected to receive their UK-sponsored Covid-19 jabs this week, but the Climate Action Network says it is too late
Wars and pandemics have managed to reduce global emissions in the past but delegates to COP 26 in Scotland will need to find other solutions
The zero greenhouse gas goals are a mainstream expectation for all large institutional investors
Gabriel Klassen, who grew up on Cape Town’s Cape Flats, is one of the many young climate activists in South Africa who are reaching out
to their peers and pushing for change and action
Emerging markets need $3-trillion to 4-trillion a year in low-carbon investments over the next 15 years to meet their climate mitigation commitments
Amendments to offset regulations published on 8 July give clarity on big emitters carrying old carbon credits to a new framework
They want quantitative commitments to the various finance mechanisms that rich countries have promised to contribute to
One country pays for greenhouse gas emissions in another country and uses that credit for its own emission reduction targets — but accounting irregularities increased carbon emissions
The ongoing three-week talks ahead of COP26 are proving tricky in a world of virtual climate diplomacy
The stage has been set for one of the most anticipated climate conferences to address global warming – and targets for the biggest emitters
The commission has been meeting with interest groups to finalise the country’s climate change mitigation commitments, while adopting and developing models towards a zero carbon emission future
Biggest players in the game show signs of recovery but a low-carbon future may threaten fossil fuel
The ambitious targets are not set in stone until they are deposited at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year, while legislative processes vary between countries that have stated their mitigation
South Africa’s latest proposed reduction targets on greenhouse gas emissions, while an improvement on before, do not go far enough to avert a disastrous rise in global temperatures this century.
Other steps to fight climate change include improved reporting, monitoring and laws