Former Greens leader says fossil fuels delegates should be banned from future COP meetings
Fossil fuel companies should be banned from future UN climate change Cop gatherings, a former leader of the Green Party has said.
Fossil fuel companies should be banned from future UN climate change Cop gatherings, a former leader of the Green Party has said.
Energy chiefs discussed the main knock-ons for oil and gas of COP26 during a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) webinar yesterday.
COP26 took fourteen days and some long nights of negotiations. It produced breakthrough pledges, a set of rules on carbon trading and some big aspirations that will have to be scrutinised against real action in the years ahead. Here’s what you need to know.
The Prime Minister has said COP26 "sounded the death knell for coal power", but his delight at any progress made at the Glasgow summit is "tinged with disappointment".
The deletion of a single word in the latest draft of the climate deal being negotiated at the COP26 climate conference signals a surprisingly ambitious move to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
A new draft of the deal that could be agreed at the Glasgow COP26 climate talks appears to have watered down its push to curb fossil fuels.
Talks on creating a global carbon market ran into new obstacles, highlighting how difficult it will be to break a six-year deadlock on an issue seen as a key benchmark of success for COP26.
The COP26 climate talks are entering their final scheduled day with the summit's president warning there is still "a monumental challenge ahead".
Confusion reigned today over whether or not Scotland is signing up to a group dedicated to phasing out the supply of oil and gas.
France has joined a group of countries and states that support fixing a date to end fossil fuel exploration, putting its name to an initiative that was snubbed by the UK.
COP26 is expected to have a carbon footprint twice as large as the previous summit on climate change, making it the most carbon-intensive summit of its kind.
World leaders have been urged to help negotiators get a climate deal over the line as Cop26 entered the final 48 hours of scheduled talks.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney says it would have been a “distraction” if he’d attended the COP26 climate summit in person.
A first draft of a deal for COP26 calls on countries to strengthen their emissions-cutting plans in the next year in a bid to keep a goal to limit warming to 1.5C within reach.
Boris Johnson has urged countries to "pull out all the stops" to secure action to limit dangerous global warming in the final days of COP26.
Boris Johnson is returning to the Cop26 climate summit as countries prepare to scrutinise a first draft of the deal that could be agreed at Glasgow.
It is crucial that the goal to limit temperature rises to 1.5C is kept alive, Sir Patrick Vallance has warned.
Negotiations continue at the UN Cop26 talks in Glasgow as events focus on efforts to boost women's equality and the climate fight.
While shots of private jets touching down in Glasgow may have raised some eyebrows, measures have been taken to keep the environmental impact of COP26 to a minimum.
West of the COP26 climate conference, among the lochs and glens of Argyll, Hazel White toils on the front line of the fight against global warming.
Former US President Barack Obama implored nations to move aggressively against climate change, warning that the world is falling dangerously short of what’s needed to tame rising temperatures and prevent disaster.
A first draft of the Glasgow final decision text at COP26 has been published ahead of the conference wrapping up this week.
Former US president Barack Obama has told the Cop26 climate summit that island nations are the "canaries in the coalmine" of climate change and are sending a message on the need for urgent action.
Oil and gas lobbyists outnumber representatives from any single country at COP26, according to new analysis.
COP26 is about to get messier with negotiators bracing for all-night sessions. Top of their list to pin down: how to create a global carbon market and who will pay for the ravages of rising temperatures.