Commentary: World looks to ‘Uncle Sam’ and the ‘Red Dragon’ to avert climate catastrophe

Saturday marks 100 days to the COP26 Summit, with vital UN climate talks opening in Glasgow on November 1. Scores of world leaders will attend, and officials from a total of 196 countries will spend two weeks in high-pressure negotiations to set a new path to a safer climate.

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New report shows 40pc of all food grown goes uneaten, contributing to 10pc of global greenhouse emissions

Today, WWF and Tesco published 'Driven to Waste', a new report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food goes uneaten around the world each year.

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Global emissions to reach all-time high as governments rebuild Covid-ravaged economies

Governments worldwide are deploying an unprecedented amount of fiscal support aimed at stabilising and rebuilding their economies, but only about 2% of this spending has been allocated to clean energy measures

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Global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from fossil fuels

A new IEA report shows a 5% rise in electricity demand in 2021 with almost half the increase met by fossil fuels, notably coal, threatening to push CO2 emissions from the power sector to record levels in 2022.

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UN drafts Paris-style plan to halt biodiversity loss

The UN has drafted a Paris-style agreement that focuses on curbing biodiversity loss by eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction, and eliminating £360bn of harmful environmental government subsidies a year.

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Global insurance leaders establish alliance to accelerate transition to net-zero emissions economy

Eight of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers have made an historic commitment to play their part in accelerating the transition to a net-zero emissions economy, as required by the Paris Agreement.

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