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COP27 - Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing - U.N. expert group

Promises by companies, banks and cities to achieve net-zero emissions often amount to little more than greenwashing, U.N. experts said in a report on Tuesday as they set out proposed new standards to harden net-zero claims.

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'Toxic cover-up': UN draws red line around net zero greenwashing

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The UN's chief called Tuesday for an end to a "toxic cover-up" by companies as a sweeping report said they cannot claim to be net zero if they invest in new fossil fuels, cause deforestation or offset emissions instead of reducing them.

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Cop27: Lula brings Brazil back into climate fold with pledge to save Amazon

Expectations are high for Brazil’s newly elected president to reverse years of climate damage

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N. Korea slams US for raising alleged arms supply to Russia

North Korea accused the United States of cooking up a “plot-breeding story” on its alleged arms transfer to Russia

The Independent UK

Here's what happened today at the U.N.'s COP27 climate negotiations

A new early warning system for weather disasters, calls for wealthy nations and corporations to pay up and dire descriptions of human suffering. Here's what happened at COP27 today.

WEKU

Hackers threaten release of Medibank data, Russian tycoon admits to US election meddling, and Rebel Wilson's first child — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Putin’s war on Ukraine is reason to ‘act faster’ on climate, Sunak urges

Climate security goes hand in hand with energy security, PM tells UN COP27 summit

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UN unveils global 'early warning' system for disasters at $3 billion

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The United Nations on Monday unveiled a five-year plan to build a global early warning system for deadly and costly extreme weather events amplified by climate change.

AFP

Rewire financial system to aid climate-hit nations: UN chief

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The world needs to rethink the international financial system to provide debt relief to countries battered by devastating and costly climate impacts like Pakistan, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday.

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Reeling from floods, Pakistan seeks climate compensation, debt relief

Pakistan's prime minister said his country would need debt relief and would seek compensation for climate damage as it recovers from catastrophic floods that cost the country some $30 billion.

Reuters

Loss and damage: Fight over human harm, huge climate costs

An issue called loss and damage will likely dominate difficult climate talks in Egypt this month

The Independent UK

'We are on a highway to climate hell,' UN chief warns

“The clock is ticking,” he told delegates at the COP27 climate conference.

Fortune

World risks 'collective suicide', UN chief warns climate summit

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The UN's chief warned Monday that nations must cooperate or face "collective suicide" in the fight against climate change, at a summit where developing countries reeling from global warming demanded more action from rich polluters.

AFP

COP27: What are they saying at the climate summit?

World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the COP27 U.N. climate summit in Egypt, where they hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

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The U.N. chief tells the climate summit: Cooperate or perish

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

Evening Standard

Climate crisis here now, COP27 warned

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres told the COP27 gathering the world is not acting fast enough on climate targets

AFP

UN chief warns world leaders against 'collective suicide' on climate

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark choice between working together or "collective suicide" in the battle against global warming.

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UN Chief at Climate Summit: Humanity Must Cooperate or Perish

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. The speech was intended to set an urgent tone as governments sit down…

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At COP27, climate change framed as battle for survival

World leaders and diplomats framed the fight against global warming as a battle for human survival during opening speeches at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Monday, with the head of the United Nations declaring a lack of progress so far had the world speeding down a “highway to…

The Independent UK

World leaders gather to talk climate, but don't expect much

More than 100 world leaders are about to discuss a worsening problem that scientists’ call Earth’s biggest challenge, yet observers don’t expect much from it, maybe not even a lot of attention

The Independent UK

Loss and damage: Fight over human harm, huge climate costs

An issue called loss and damage will likely dominate difficult climate talks in Egypt this month

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak to demand ‘global mission for clean growth’ as COP27 begins

Rishi Sunak to tell world leaders to move ‘further and faster’ from damaging fossil fuels as UN chief warns of ‘climate chaos’

Al Jazeera

Past eight years eight hottest on record, UN report warns

The UN’s weather and climate body outlines ‘chronicle of climate chaos’ as COP27 talks get under way in Egypt.

The Conversation

A Canadian senator aims to end the widespread financial backing of fossil fuels

The United Nations climate change conference, COP27, has begun in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In the lead-up to the conference, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations.

AFP

COP27 summit opens as world races against climate clock

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt after a year of extreme weather disasters that have fuelled calls for wealthy industrialised nations to compensate poorer countries.

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