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Summary of the main developments on the eighth day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow
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Day eight at the Glasgow summit focuses on loss, adaptation and damage
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Here is the evening summary of today’s events:
Little Amal, a 3.5m puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, will visit the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 from 9 to 11 November. This follows her completion of The Walk, a 4…
· Governments, farmers and businesses commit to urgent action to protect our land and make our agriculture and food systems more sustainable for the future
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Summary of the main developments on the third day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow
Country pledges at Cop26 would limit global temperature rises to below 2C, the first time the world has been on…
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Brazil - where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut…
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Summary of the main developments on kick-off day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow.
The main things that happened on day one of the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow included:
Chaotic scenes as…
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has told young protesters that politicians attending COP26 are "pretending to take our future seriously".
The arrival of world leaders in Glasgow for the COP26 summit…
The Queen has urged world leaders at the COP26 climate summit to "achieve true statesmanship" and create a "safer, stabler future" for the planet.
In a video message, she said many people hoped the…