Posts Tagged ‘cop26’

COP26 Summit: Thousands March In Glasgow For Action Against Climate Change

Above Photo: @COP26_XR / Twitter. Activists around the world are mobilising to push global leaders to take immediate action and prevent the planet from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels. Glasgow, the host city of the COP26 summit, has been witnessing protests with demands for radical change to tackle the global […]

COP26: By 2100, Bangladesh may drown, Pakistan likely to face severe water shortage, fear experts

Alok Sharma, the President of COP26, the mega make or break climate negotiation event currently underway in Glasgow, in a speech given at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on October 12 warned “Paris promised, Glasgow must deliver.” He ends his opening speech to COP26 on October 31 on a hopeful note saying, “We can launch a […]

COP26: Wall Street rolls out climate finance

The US climate envoy John Kerry is getting down to the real business at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow after President Joe Biden has had his photo-ops, made his idiosyncratic public remarks and flew back home.  The Xinhua new agency reported that Kerry and the Chinese delegation will “continue their […]

Indigenous Activists Say Their Voices Are Missing At Cop26

Above Photo: Activists hold a memorial at Cop26 for the 1,005 environmental defenders murdered since the Paris agreement. (Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian) ‘A Continuation Of Colonialism’ Activists in Glasgow reject ‘big business’ approach to climate crisis as they commemorate murdered land defenders. As world leaders inside the Cop26 conference centre in Glasgow boasted about pledges to slash greenhouse […]

Menu of Cop26 Globalists (Who Arrived in 400 Private Jets) Leaked and It’s 60% Meat, While Telling You to Eat Bugs

“Like Serving Cigarettes to a Lung Cancer Conference.” While they tell us to reduce our carbon footprint by eating bugs, the Cop26 menu for technocrats (that arrived in no less than FOUR HUNDREDS private planes) is full of animal-based meals that are at least double the carbon footprint of the average UK meal. The globalists […]

COP26: Will Humanity’s ‘Last and Best Chance’ to Save Earth’s Climate Succeed?

There is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities. It would be an understatement to say that there is a lot riding on COP26, the international climate talks currently being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Officially, the gathering marks the […]

The Misanthropic Bankers Behind COP26 and the Green New Deal

Mark Carney – formerly of Goldman Sachs & the Bank of England – has hailed plans to spend 130 TRILLION dollars on “net zero finance”. Avast sweeping change towards a “green economy” is now being pushed by forces that may make an educated citizen rather uncomfortable. Of course, news reports flash daily showcasing the brave […]

Greta Crashes COP26 To Call Bull$hit On Carbon ‘Offsets’, Still Hasn’t Heard Of China

While the teen environmentalist sat in the back of the room, she tweeted earlier in the day that the fossil fuel industry & banks, which she called the “biggest climate villains,” were “here in Glasgow trying to scale up offsetting & give polluters a free pass to keep polluting.” “Polluting profiteers see offsetting as their […]

A Day Late, Israeli Minister Who Uses Wheelchair Can Access COP26

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s energy minister, who uses a wheelchair, was able to attend the global climate summit Tuesday, a day after police prevented her from reaching the venue. Energy Minister Karine Elharrar arrived at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow alongside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, using a blue ramp to enter […]

400 Private Jets Carrying Politicians To COP26 Emit More CO2 Than Hundreds of Citizens Would In A Year

More than 400 private jets carrying politicians and business executives to this week’s conference will belch out 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide, exceeding the emissions of 1,600 average Scots for a full year, according to an estimate by the Scotland’s Daily Record (Private jets flying to COP26 in Glasgow will blast more CO2 than Scots pump out […]

COP26 Exposes Failure of Neoliberalism

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow October 31st thru November 12th may be the most significant climate conference of all time. The fate of the planet is on the line. Prior to that august event, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers evidenced an alarming fact that the climate system is broken, endangering all complex […]

Sleep Walking Into Subservience: Sovereignty or COP26

Commentary Some Australians are more worried about net zero climate policies than defending our freedom and sovereignty, ironically against the largest polluter the world has ever known. And some Australians are profiting from pushing climate policies. At no time since World War II has Australia, the Indo-Pacific, and the free world been at more risk […]

Rainbow Warrior To Defy Glasgow Port By Sailing To COP26

The Rainbow Warrior is planning to sail to the COP26 summit in Glasgow in defiance of port authorities, environmental group Greenpeace has said. The campaign group’s famous ship is carrying youth strikers from communities most hit by climate change to demand world leaders “stop failing us”. Greenpeace said port authorities had warned the group not […]

COP26: Pope Francis hopes ‘cry of the Earth and of the poor’ is heard at climate summit

Pope Francis on Sunday urged people to pray so that “the cry of the Earth” is heard at the UN climate summit getting underway in Glasgow. Addressing worshippers in St Peter’s Square, the pontiff said he hoped the crucial conference can offer “effective answers” for future generations. “Today in Glasgow, in Scotland, the UN Summit […]

‘Last, best hope’: UK appeals for action on climate as COP26 opens in Glasgow

The UN climate summit in Glasgow opened Sunday with appeals for action and prayers, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of intensifying global warming. Leaders from around the world will gather in Scotland’s biggest city on Monday to lay out their countries’ […]

Expectations for COP26 are low but here’s what would make it a success

World leaders are gathering in Glasgow for this year’s climate conference as recent evidence suggests the world is falling behind in its effort to keep the rise in temperature low enough to avoid catastrophe. But expectations ahead of the crucial summit are low. The COP26 summit in Scotland opens on Sunday and will run through […]

Climate activists protest in London, feel ‘optimistic’ ahead of COP26

Climate activists protest outside the Lloyds and Macquarie offices in London to demand the global financial system stops putting money into the use of fossil fuels, ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. Thousands of Israelis take part in a climate march in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, calling on world leaders to take action […]

The US and China must find a way to cooperate at COP26 and beyond. Otherwise, global climate action is impossible

A week out from the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, all eyes are on two nations: China and the United States. Together, the superpowers are responsible for more than 40% of global carbon emissions. U.S.-China relations have been fractious in recent years, and whether they can cooperate on climate action is crucial to success at […]

A Local Rain-Check Before a Global Summit: What is India Busy with Pre-CoP26?

 The upcoming CoP26 is not without its own set of apprehensions and mired more in doubts than expectations with unrealistic ‘net-zero’ rhetoric and big consultancies like Boston Consultancy Group[i] managing the event, along with the latest rumours that one of the most notorious businessmen of the world, Adani[ii], trying to pitch for a presence in […]

What’s Up With COP26?

The UK (in partnership with Italy) will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26 in Glasgow on October 31- November 12, 2021. COP26 will be one of the most significant meetings in modern human history, comparable to the meeting of the Big Three at the Tehran Conference November 28, 1943 when […]

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