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This week’s R&D covers the COP26 Summit, the twenty-sixth meeting of nations that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 and later agreed to the Paris Climate Accord in 2015. The leaders of the attending nations are trying to work out a framework to prevent global temperatures from increasing by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next twenty years.
COP26 news: Coal phase-out boosts hope for limiting warming to 1.5°C https://t.co/4f5ou1KraU
— New Scientist (@newscientist) November 4, 2021
As long as multilateral engagement is defined by nationalism, power politics, and emotion, rather than solidarity, law, and science, our future will continue to grow bleaker, warns @ecfr‘s @markhleonard. #COP26 #climatechange https://t.co/djwaY5x5zJ
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) November 4, 2021
“COP is sort of turning into a greenwash campaign, a PR campaign, for C.E.O.s, world leaders, politicians,” said Greta Thunberg at an event on the sidelines of COP26. https://t.co/e2MzJMNgiw
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) November 4, 2021
The US and China have shunned the UK’s flagship coal pact, dealing a severe blow to #COP26 and drawing a warning from the world’s leading energy body, which said the chances of limiting global warming to the goals of the Paris accord were ‘close to zero’ https://t.co/WxaBiqmkym
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) November 4, 2021
What do the poorest countries want from COP26? #COP26BBC https://t.co/n5iOQPN5Oh
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 4, 2021
As COP26 kicks off, here are some of FP’s essential reads on the politics of climate action:https://t.co/HmjarIV4of
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) November 4, 2021
Ahead of #COP26, we explain why the phenomenal growth in energy use brought about by fossil fuels will be hard to decarbonise https://t.co/dXtPGe7iXr
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 4, 2021
This week at COP26, more than 70 countries, led by the European Union and the United States, formally announced their commitment to the Global Methane Pledge: a promise to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030. https://t.co/bdMaB5oQul
— The Nation (@thenation) November 4, 2021
Today is #Energy Day at #COP26. In an exclusive commentary for our #NewSummits sustainability magazine, @Orsted CEO @NipperMads explained what governments and corporate leaders can do to accelerate #decarbonization. https://t.co/y25z33fT87
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) November 4, 2021
COP26 is shaping up to be a disappointment. But one area where enthusiasm is growing is climate finance https://t.co/PB5IYcCBJB
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 4, 2021