The hope that world leaders will reach a sweeping new climate change accord at COP26 to cut greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures from crossing 1.5 degrees Celsius of rise over pre-industrial levels has continued to dim in recent days.
Doing nothing while we pave more streets with black asphalt isn’t an option. Kansas City needs this new resolution to plan for a hotter future. | EditorialFew are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity ‘The nation’s worst polluters managed to evade accountability and scrutiny for decades as they helped the fossil fuel industry destroy our planet.
The reality is that only a handful of powerful individuals bear the personal respMillionaires be warned: Democrats are looking for creative ways to tax the wealthiest Americans to pay for their $1.75 trillion social safety net expansion, lawmakers and aides tell Axios.Why it matters: The nation’s 700 billionaires may have dodged a bullet when Sen. Joe Manchin effectively killed a plan to tax just their unrealized capital gains.
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COP26 climate summit gets PR push as royals turn on glamourClimate change has prompted emotional pleas from the royal family, and united three generations ahead of the U.N.’s COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
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India rejects net zero emissions target ahead of climate conference'It is how much carbon you are going to put in the atmosphere before reaching net zero that is more important,' India's environment minister says.
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China at COP26: Beijing's coal addiction is key to climate summitNEW: Ahead of COP26, many experts say China is doing nowhere near enough to reduce its coal consumption and avoid damaging temperature rises this century.
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Everything you need to know about COP26, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in GlasgowAfter a summer of record-setting heat waves, hurricanes and forest fires, public concern about climate change has reached an all-time high leading into the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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For the Shipping Industry, Moves to Cut Carbon Emissions Remain a StruggleAhead of the Glasgow COP26 climate summit, ship operators are contending with limited supplies of cleaner fuel choices and hefty prices for new modes of power.
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Scientists express doubt that Glasgow climate change conference will be successfulFor many of the scientists whose work has informed the grim reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in recent years, the chances that an agreement will be reached to keep global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels seem dim.
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