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Archbishop calls on world leaders to be bolder on climate change
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on world leaders to be “bolder” in tackling the climate crisis when they meet for the UN’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, saying the era of fossil fuels must come to an end. But before he became ordained and heard, as he puts it, “God calling”, the Archbishop spent more…
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Colombia’s Amazon: Fears authorities turning blind eye to illegal deforestation as scale of problem exposed
Colombia’s Amazon rainforest has lost an area larger than Wales in recent years despite hundreds of millions of pounds sent from Britain to protect it from deforestation, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal.
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Students to boycott clubs amid reports of injection spiking
University students are set to take part in a boycott of nightclubs and are calling for more security at venues amid reports of women being spiked with needles on nights out.
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UK has ‘fallen behind’ its neighbours on measures to combat climate change, says Sir David King
We spoke to Sir David King, formerly the UK special representative for climate change, and first asked if the government’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is sufficient.
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Critics say government plans to meet net zero needs more funding
Less than two weeks away from the decisive climate COP summit in Glasgow, the government has announced a raft of announcements – but do they go far enough?
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Jon Snow turned into ‘hologram’ to report on how climate crisis could impact humanity over next 80 years
Jon Snow has been turned into a ‘hologram’ to report on potential climate impacts over the course of the next century in a new project for Channel 4 News ahead of the COP climate conference in Glasgow.
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2035: Green revolution choked by coal in Africa #OurClimateFutures
This video is part of Our Climate Futures – a project which takes real science to forecast what impacts and changes humanity may face as the climate crisis unfolds. This is not a news story. At least not yet.
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John Kerry: COP26 may fall short of climate targets
US climate envoy John Kerry has warned the COP26 summit is likely to end without an agreement by nations to the ambitious cuts in carbon emissions needed to avoid devastating levels of climate change.
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China to produce more coal after blackouts
In under three weeks, the world will gather in Glasgow for the climate change conference, COP26.
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Explained: What is the COP climate conference?
The COP26 summit in Glasgow kicks off at the end of this month, in the midst of a global pandemic, when the climate already seems to be tipping over into crisis. So what should we expect and why is it all so crucial?
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Exclusive: Palm oil bosses human rights abuses claims
Palm oil executives have been caught on camera apparently admitting to human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea (PNG), home to the world’s third largest rainforest, linking global brands to deforestation and child labour.
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This is what a year of climate disasters looked like
From -25C temperatures in Spain to a record-equalling 54.4C in Death Valley, the extremes of our climate are becoming more acute.
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Boris Johnson tells young climate activists they have ‘right to be angry’
Boris Johnson has said that young climate change activists “have every right to be angry”. The Prime Minister was speaking virtually at the final day of the youth climate change conference in Milan. His Italian counterpart’s speech was met by protests. So with just a month to go until COP26, has this given us a…
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Youth climate conference debate: what can be achieved at COP26?
We speak to Archie Young, the UK’s lead climate negotiator at the Cabinet Office, who’s in charge of the team who will actually sit at the table in Glasgow, and Ella Simons, from Australia, who’s just turned 15 and is the youngest delegate here in Milan.
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Youth activists lay out demands for a greener future and ‘real action’ on climate change
We sat down with a group of young activists from India, Pakistan, Argentina, Sudan and Moldova, and started by asking them how climate change is already affecting their own countries.