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World Economic Forum says taxing carbon emitters would cost less than economic fallout from climate crisis.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said his Bezos Earth Fund will spend $2bn (£1.5bn) restoring landscapes and transforming food systems.
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The COP26 climate summit kicks off in Glasgow this weekend - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming.
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Cop26 pledge cautiously welcomed as ‘first step’ in making indigenous rights central to climate crisis talks.
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India and the UK will launch a transnational and transcontinental grid project, the Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG or OSOWOG), at COP26 tomorrow.
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Summary of the main developments on the second day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow
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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…