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COP 26 Day 8 | Will ministers ever agree?<\/h2>\nCOP 26 Day 8 | Will ministers ever agree?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Euronews Green delivers a Special COP26 email to my mailbox every day during the two weeks it is running (01-12 November 2021). I’ll publish it in its entirety for those who are interested. This is the fifth in the series.<\/p>\n
As COP26 enters its final and decisive week, ministers from all over the world are arriving in Glasgow with a challenging task at hand. They must reach a consensus between almost 200 countries on the rules that will govern the implementation of the 2015 Paris agreement.<\/p>\n
Positions are still far apart, according to many observers. A long list of contentious issues<\/strong> includes international carbon markets, deadlines for climate targets and accountability mechanisms.<\/p>\n Loss and Damage<\/strong> – the theme of the day – remains another sticking point. Little progress has been registered so far on the demand from climate-vulnerable countries to receive compensation for the damages caused by historic emissions of wealthy nations.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the UK COP26 presidency announced several hundreds of millions <\/strong>of pledges of funding to support communities struggling to respond to climate change.<\/p>\n Yet numerous developing nations expressed their pessimism about the progress of negotiations on Monday, saying pledges were high in quantity but low in quality.<\/p>\n “We have not done nearly enough,” said former US President Barack Obama<\/u><\/strong><\/a> as he spoke at the summit.<\/p>\n Praising young people\u2019s climate action, he told them: \u201cI want you to stay angry, I want you to stay frustrated. But channel that anger and that frustration to keep pushing for more and more.”<\/p>\n In case you weren’t able to follow along this weekend, here are five key takeaways<\/u><\/strong><\/a> from global climate marches on Saturday.<\/p>\n As negotiators and COP attendees were having a well-deserved rest, a People\u2019s Tribunal took place on Sunday. Made up of activists, experts, NGOs and even a former COP negotiator from the Global South, the mock tribunal heard four hours of evidence against the UN organisation.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n Aeroplane fuel can be made out of just sunlight and air, say scientists in Switzerland. A new system has been created on the roof of ETH Zurich University where engineers are testing whether this type of fuel generation can work in the real world. So is making plane fuel out of natural elements too good to be true – and how does it actually work? Emission-free hydrogen could, one day, entirely replace fossil fuels – and a start up in Germany believes it has the key ingredient to make it accessible to all. Born in a climate-change affected South Pacific Island, Vaitea Cowan believes deeply in green hydrogen technology. COP 26 Day 8 | Will ministers ever agree? Euronews Green delivers a Special COP26 email to my mailbox every day during the two weeks it is running (01-12 November 2021). I’ll publish it in its entirety for those who are interested. This is the fifth in the series. Today’s takeaway As COP26 enters […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3723,4695,4710],"class_list":["post-45830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-cop26","tag-word","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/h4>\nHas the UN ‘failed to address’ the root causes of climate change?<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nCould airplane pollution be solved by fuel made of sunlight and air?<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nGreen hydrogen: How half the water in a toilet flush could power your home for days<\/h4>\n
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