The chance to meet climate targets almost gone, warns UN report
A landmark UN report warns that devastating climate change is already here, and the time to prevent more is running out.
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This autumn is the United Nations Climate Change conference, when the countries of the world will gather to negotiate a way forward.
Boris Johnson has told the leaders of the world’s major economies that history will judge them on whether they have the courage to “step up” and make commitments at the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow next month.
With just seven weeks until the critical COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the government is yet to pass its flagship post-Brexit green legislation.
A year after their hard-hitting report demanding action to tackle the climate crisis, the 100 members of the public who’ve been part of the UK’s first Climate Assembly are back in Westminster, asking when that action is finally going to happen.
A landmark UN report warns that devastating climate change is already here, and the time to prevent more is running out.
On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…
As London mops up from another day of flash floods, ministers from more than 50 countries have been in the city for a two-day meeting designed to make sure the UN’s climate change conference is a success.
Wildfires are blazing from Sardinia to Siberia – floodwaters are surging through China, India, the Philippines.
The executive director of the International Energy Agency hopes the UK government will bear in mind its global reputation on climate ahead of a decision on whether to approve drilling on a new North Sea oil field.
The next 100 days could “save many lives [and] trillions of dollars”, the US special envoy for climate John Kerry said in an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News looking ahead to the COP 26 UN climate conference.
Some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies have lobbied the UK government to support a gas “compromise” ahead of the COP26 UN conference, Channel 4 News can reveal.
I spoke to Anne-Marie Trevelyan – who’s Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, and asked her whether she thought we have a coherent enough plan to persuade the rest of the world to follow us at the COP summit in Glasgow.
The UK had freeports while it was still an EU member.
Large crowds of Scotland and England fans have been gathering in central London ahead of tonight’s Euro 2020 clash at Wembley Stadium, despite appeals for anyone without a ticket to stay away.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has paused part of her roadmap out of Scotland’s Covid crisis as cases of the Indian variant rise.