Negotiations at COP26 are down to the wire, however Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says an agreement on loss and damage funding for developing nations hurt by global warming is in sight.
Speaking at a "people's plenary" meeting Friday, youth, farmers, trade unionists, environmental groups, and disability and gender rights advocates criticized the UN climate change conference in Glasgow for being among the most exclusive negotiations so far.
Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.
The world's top two carbon polluters, China and the United States, pledged on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, to increase their cooperation on climate action in a joint declaration issued at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow.
The United Kingdom wants to close COP26 with the rules of the Paris Agreement finalized. But a thorny section called Article 6 has pitted countries against each other for years.
The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made “some serious toddler steps” toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials said on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.
On Wednesday morning, a draft version of the final agreement to come out of the two-week United Nations climate conference was released. Now, the world waits to see what the final text will hold.