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COP27: Fears over oil producers’ influence with UAE as next host of climate talks
More than 630 fossil fuel lobbyists attended Cop27, and the Emirates, where Cop28 will be held, is a major oil and gas exporter
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COP27: US receives stinging criticism despite China’s growing emissions
The country is highlighting China’s status as top polluter after being called out for climate inaction
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COP27 : L’UE et l’ONU se disent déçues et regrettent le manque d’ambition quant à la réduction des gaz à effets de serre
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COP27 : la RDC exige des compensations pour annuler ses projets de prospection pétrolière dans les tourbières
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COP27: Climate fund breakthrough at cost of progress on emissions
COP27 climate summit ends after marathon weekend negotiations. Final deal delivers on creating historic climate finance fund but negotiators say some blocked tighter emissions targets.
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COP27: le fonds pour pertes et dommages «est une victoire pour les communautés les plus vulnérables»
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COP27: une avancée majeure pour l'aide au Sud, mais pas d'ambition nouvelle sur les émissions
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COP27: Loss and damage fund agreed but no fossil fuel progress
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COP27: Five key takeaways
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COP27: World still ‘on brink of climate catastrophe’ after deal
Experts say biggest economies must pledge more cuts to carbon emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and damage fund
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COP27: Fridays For Future Japan reiterates its protest against the government and companies following awarding of "Fossil Prize" to Japan for financing fossil fuel projects
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COP27: la Chine refuse de financer le fonds «pertes et dommages» proposé par l'UE
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Cop27: EU agrees to loss and damage fund to help countries recover from climate disaster
Change in stance puts spotlight on US and China, which have both objected to fund
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COP27: Draft agreement fails to call for ‘phase-down’ of all fossil fuels
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COP27: toujours pas d'accord financier sur le fonds «pertes et dommages» des catastrophes climatiques
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Blog: Calling for action on climate justice at COP27
Africa has already suffered from significant climate-induced loss and destruction, yet it produces less than 5 percent of global GHG emissions.
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COP27: Lack of women at negotiations raises concern
Too few women are participating in COP27 climate negotiations, charities, activists and politicians have warned.
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COP27: Brazil’s Lula vows halt to rampant deforestation
Lula has vowed to make Brazil a leader in the fight against climate change following the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.
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COP27: Climate disaster aid scheme ‘Global Shield’ launched
The G7-led plan aims to rapidly provide prearranged insurance and protection funding after devastating events occur.
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Arlette Soudan-Nonault, ministre de l’Environnement (Congo-B): «Pour aller vers une transition avec des énergies propres, il nous faut des financements»
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COP27: Antigua's PM warns people don't want to become climate refugees
Prime Minister Gaston Brown, of Antigua and Barbuda, has angrily rejected the idea his people should be forced to migrate, and warned that climate diplomacy is failing to act with anything like the urgency needed.
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COP27: Media groups urge climate tax on fossil fuel giants
Dozens of international media titles publish a joint editorial calling for radical thinking on how to fund climate action in poorer countries
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COP27: U.S., Japan and partners mobilise $20 billion to move Indonesia away from coal
A coalition of countries will mobilise $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants
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COP27: une première semaine de négociations au bilan mitigé pour les pays en développement
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COP27: Round up - visionless summit flails into week two
What does winning look like for the Egyptian presidency?
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COP27: Declaration encourages prioritizing low-impact circular economy solutions that reduce overall demand for transition minerals
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COP27: Analysis finds increasing demand for oil and fuel threatens African nations’ economies
Carbon Tracker thinktank says investors in fossil fuels on the continent would be left with stranded assets
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Afrique : 1,4 Md$ pour la résilience climatique de petits exploitants agricoles
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COP27: Fears of compromise on key 1.5C global temperature issue
A key target to stop climate change raising global temperatures is under threat at a UN summit.
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COP27: 1.5C global warming limit is at risk, warns Alok Sharma
Alok Sharma, a former British cabinet minister who chaired the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, has warned Cop27 delegates that the possibility of limiting global warming to no more than 1.5C could be in jeopardy.
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COP27: Amnesty International recommends Human Rights consistent climate action to UNFCCC
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COP27: Amnesty International new briefing illustrates devastation climate crisis is already causing
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COP27: les femmes kényanes, victimes directes du changement climatique
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COP27: Biden and Xi unshackle climate teams to formalise talks on G20 sidelines
Both presidents agreed on the G20 sidelines climate action was in their common interest, despite tensions over Taiwan’s status
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COP27: Climate justice activists demand community-based renewable projects
The climate justice movement’s message is clear: community-based renewable projects that work for the people, not corporations, are a necessity.
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COP27: Ukraine highlights environmental cost of Russia’s war
Delegation at climate summit tell of destruction of protected areas and carbon toll of invasion and rebuilding
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COP27: une parole africaine, pour peser
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COP27: la société civile crie dans le désert à Charm el-Cheikh
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La COP27 vue depuis l'Afrique du Sud, les Émirats arabes unis, la Pologne et le Brésil
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COP27: Island nations implore major economies to not water down commitments
Major polluters have a history of watering down negotiations at the eleventh hour - but the world cannot afford this to happen at COP27
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Egypt: Political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah continues to be denied visit by lawyer during climate summit
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COP27: Gas producers using conference to rebrand gas as transitional fuel, experts warn
Companies and financial backers are laying the groundwork for a shift in attitudes towards gas
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COP27: BP chief listed as delegate for Mauritania
BP chief executive Bernard Looney was registered as a delegate for Mauritania to attend COP27.
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COP27: UNCTAD forum underlines urgent need for more investment in climate action
The event paved the way for the creation of a roadmap and global alliance to harness international trade and investment in the fight against climate change.
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COP27: International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change urges States to respect and promote rights of Indigenous Peoples in climate action
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COP27: Pacific Indigenous activists say they are being neglected & pushed aside
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COP27: Coalition demands recognition & incorporation by UNFCCC and state parties of the role of defenders in facing climate crisis
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COP27: Key climate goal of 1.5C rise faces new challenge
Emissions of CO2 are rising so quickly there is now a 50% chance the world will cross a crucial climate change threshold soon, a new report suggests.
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COP27: ‘Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists attending conference
Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year
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Latinoamérica: Sociedad civil pide que acuerdos para el financiamiento del clima llene estándares de derechos humanos y ambientales
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Global: Organizaciones de derechos humanos piden protección a personas defensoras en la COP27
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COP27: la jeunesse du Sud donne de la voix
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COP27 : la Caravane africaine pour le climat veut faire entendre la voix de la société civile
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COP27: Scientists warn against limits of adaptation
The limits of humankind to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change, which include ever more frequent and severe drought, storms and floods.
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América Latina: Sociedad civil ve con preocupación que aumenta la tendencia a usar energías fósiles
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COP27: les crédits carbone sont-ils une solution pour les pays africains ?
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COP27: sur les pertes et dommages, «l'agenda est conditionné», regrette le négociateur Alpha Kaloga
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COP27: Civil society groups report surveillance and intimidation
Attenders say actions of Egyptian authorities are threatening their participation at conference
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COP27: Indigenous & community groups leading the charge on saving the planet, say commentators
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COP27: Developing world seeks financing details
Finance took centre stage with U.N. experts publishing a list of projects worth $120 billion that investors could back to help countries cut emissions and adapt to the impacts of global warming.
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COP27: Climate crisis will have huge impact on Africa’s economies, study says
As Cop27 discusses climate finance, report says continent’s GDP growth could fall by two-thirds this century
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COP27: Colombian government calls on leaders of the Amazonian countries to form a block to safe rainforest
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COP27: Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim
Greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas facilities around the world are about three times higher than their producers claim, new data has shown.
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COP27: UN report on corporate greenwashing demands higher standards from financial institutions
Financial institutions cannot claim to be net-zero while investing in fossil fuels, says UN report
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Egypt: Authorities arrested hundreds in the past two weeks over calls for protests during COP27
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Egypt COP27: French Govt. & defence industry "enabling repression" say activists, as cameras imported by Thales-owned Arab Intl. Optronics are ubiquitous
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COP27: ‘Significant’ moves on climate disaster funds lifts hope of success on loss and damage
Small but symbolic moves at summit where finance is critical include new loss and damage money and debt relief
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COP27: U.N. expert group say corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing
Promises by companies, banks and cities to achieve net-zero emissions often amount to little more than greenwashing, U.N. experts said in a report as they set out proposed new standards to harden net-zero claims.
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Coca-Cola, EgyptAir, Orascom, Microsoft... Les douteux sponsors de la COP27
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COP27: 602 investors call on governments to create just transition plans, guarantee long-term resilience and energy security
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COP27: il faut 2.000 milliards de dollars pour les pays en voie de développement
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COP27 : l’Egypte et les Emirats arabes unis vont développer un nouveau projet basé sur l’énergie éolienne
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Barbados PM Mia Mottley launches blistering attack on rich nations at Cop27
Mia Mottley warns of a billion refugees by the middle of the century unless governments act now to tackle crisis
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COP27: Tuvalu issues historic call for treaty to phase out fossil fuels
The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu on Tuesday urged countries at the COP27 climate summit to establish a global treaty to phase out the use of fossil fuels.
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COP27 : 14 entreprises alimentaires veulent éliminer la déforestation de leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement d’ici 2025
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COP27: les dirigeants africains appellent les pays riches à verser les financements promis
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COP27: Developing countries will need $2tn a year in climate funding by 2030
About $2tn (£1.75tn) will be needed each year by 2030 to help developing countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the effects of climate breakdown, new data suggests.
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COP27: «Ce dont les populations vulnérables ont besoin, ce n’est pas un agenda, ce sont des finances»
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COP27: Macron invite les pays riches à honorer leurs engagements envers les pays du Sud
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COP27: Indigenous leaders and NGOs seek climate agreement that protects 80% of the Amazon by 2025
The “Amazonia for Life Initiative” calls for the protection of 80% of the Amazonia by 2025 to avert the “tipping point” in the largest carbon sink for the planet.
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COP27: «Une occasion unique pour les pays africains de remettre un peu d'équilibre dans la balance»
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Egypt: Wifi at COP27 conference centre blocks human rights and key news websites
Cop27 wifi in Egypt blocks human rights and key news websites Attendees say they are unable to visit Human Rights Watch and other sites needed during climate talks
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Antonio Guterres: «L’humanité a le choix, coopérer ou périr»
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Une COP27 pour rétablir la confiance Nord-Sud
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"Pourquoi on est là?": à Charm el-Cheikh, la société civile au ban de la COP27
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COP27: World on 'highway to climate hell' says U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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COP27: Indigenous knowledge must be included in policy making say Inuit leaders
The organization representing Inuit around the world are calling for urgent action on environment and for Inuit experience and leadership to be incorporated into national and global decisions on climate
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Ouverture de la COP27 en Égypte, les «pertes et dommages» mis à l’agenda des négociations
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Coup d'envoi de la COP27 dans la ville égyptienne de Charm el-Cheik
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Pertes et dommages dus au changement climatique: que faut-il attendre de la COP27? (2/2)
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Climat: comprendre les pertes et dommages, grande attente du Sud à la COP27 (1/2)
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S. Africa: CSOs call on the government to play leading role in just transition & coal phase-out at COP27
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Global: Análisis del contenido de la COP27 sobre cambio climático y las perspectivas para Latinoamérica
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Egypt: Civil society groups concerned they are being excluded from Cop27 for the security of Govt. officials
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Brasil: Governo deve mostrar ´energias verdes´ na COP27 para dar menos destaque a floresta, segundo reportagem
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RDC: Fin de la Pré-COP27 à Kinshasa sur un constat amer : les financements promis par les pays riches tardent à se concrétiser
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COP27 : Les défenseurs du climat dénoncent le parrainage de Coca-Cola, premier pollueur plastique au monde
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Egypt: OHCHR calls on Govt. to ensure safe & full participation of civil society ahead of COP27 as crackdowns, arrests & detention create climate of "fear"
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COP27 : Une vingtaine d’ONG internationales menacent de saisir les tribunaux pour dénoncer l’inaction climatique de certains gouvernements
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Egypte: Le groupe Infinity annonce qu'il alimentera la COP27 avec de l'énergie propre
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An Adaptation Delivery Breakthrough for Africa at COP27
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Egypt: Ahead of COP27, trade unionists and climate activists accuse the govt. of "greenwashing" its long record of human rights abuses & attacks on workers' rights to organise
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