Full coverage: U.N. climate summit
Heads of state, environmental activists, business leaders and journalists are in Scotland for a climate summit that comes as world leaders are running out of time to break away from fossil fuels and prevent the most catastrophic effects of global warming.
Here’s full coverage from The Times:
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The House passed a roughly $2-trillion social policy and climate bill Friday, including $555 billion for cleaner energy, although the legislation is almost certain to be changed by the Senate.
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Government negotiators from nearly 200 countries adopt a new deal on climate action after India watered down language on cutting coal emissions.
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United Nations summit goes into overtime before ending with an agreement in fight against climate change.
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Negotiators in Scotland held last-minute huddles and pored over fresh proposals for a deal to advance worldwide efforts to tackle global warming.
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Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow appear to be backing away from a call to end all use of coal and to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies.
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Antonio Guterres says the U.N.’s climate talks will ‘very probably’ not yield the carbon-cutting pledges needed to limit global warming.
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As conference host, Britain’s Boris Johnson has brought his colorful but polarizing style to the U.N. climate change gathering in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The world’s top carbon polluters agree to increase their cooperation and speed up action to rein in climate-damaging emissions, signaling a mutual effort on global warming.
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The agreement reflects a growing recognition that the shipping industry isn’t doing enough to curb emissions on its own.
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Former President Obama is expressing confidence that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555-billion climate package through Congress.
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Police helicopters were buzzing above Glasgow, Scotland, for a second day of protests outside the U.N. climate summit.
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The environmental activist says leaders at the talks in Glasgow, Scotland, are creating loopholes for rules and greenwashing their countries’ emissions.
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To water resiliency advocates at the U.N. climate conference, the Colorado River stands out as ‘the best example globally of how things can go badly.’
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What nations have promised varies. Some have pledged to quit coal completely at a future date, while others say they’ll stop building new plants.
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Young activists are coming of age when the effects of the climate crisis are already being felt — foreshadowing a perilous future. They want the United Nations COP26 summit to reduce global warming.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tests positive for COVID-19 while at the climate summit in Scotland. The fully vaccinated mayor is ‘feeling good.’
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On Biden’s last day at the U.N. climate conference, he announces measures to curb carbon emissions. Advocates’ fear the summit won’t do enough.
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The global pledge to end deforestation in the coming decade is critical to limiting climate change, but it’s one that’s been made and broken before.
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The administration’s plan to reduce methane emissions could affect thousands of idle California oil wells that have been left unplugged.
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New study says climate change is essentially two-thirds to 88% responsible for the conditions driving wildfire woes in the western United States.
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As the COP26 climate summit begins, we know basically what we need to do to keep climate change from destroying us. So what’s the holdup?
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‘Glasgow must be the kickoff of a decade of ambition and innovation to preserve our shared future,’ the president says.
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Only four heads of state from Pacific island nations can attend the climate summit.
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Newsom had been preparing to go to Scotland for weeks, saying California exemplifies a state fighting global warming while still thriving economically.
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China is offering no significant new goals for reducing climate-changing emissions ahead of next week’s global climate summit in Scotland.
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Thousands will attend the U.N. global climate summit. While hopes for a major breakthrough are slim, here’s what leaders hope to get done.
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It’s not that people don’t care about global warming. It’s just that they don’t seem to care in rational proportion to the enormity of the problem.
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Governments’ failure to take aggressive action looms large as leaders head to the COP26 climate summit, billed as ‘the last, best chance’ to save Earth.
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The United States is going to Scotland with a patchwork plan that falls far short of what’s needed to prevent climate change devastation.
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The rest of the world may suffer the consequences if the U.S. and China don’t work together on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
