Environment

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Prince Charles warns G20 leaders of their duties regarding climate issues

  

  Prince Charles of Wales has warned world leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Rome that they were having an “overwhelming responsibility to generations yet unborn” regarding climate issues, ahead of the COP 26 summit in Glasgow.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Argentine President wants debt swaps for climate action before heading for Glasgow

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who is already in Glasgow for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) after two days in Rome for the G20 Summit, is to propose a new goal of reducing emissions.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Biden announces US-UE negotiating carbon-conscious trade agreement

  

  As the Glasgow COP26 climate Summit was starting, US President Joseph Biden said from Rome that the United States and the European Union had agreed to negotiate “the world's first trade agreement based on how much carbon is in a product”.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  G20 rounds up Rome Summit with compromise declaration on climate neutrality

  

  Leaders of the G20 have issued their final statement Sunday at the end of a two-day summit, in which they pledged to increase efforts to reach the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal which is in line with a global commitment made in 2015 through the Paris Climate Accord.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  COP26 Finance Delivery Plan still short of the US$ 100bn agreed by developed countries

  

  The UK COP26 Presidency has published a Climate Finance Delivery Plan to provide clarity on when and how developed countries will meet the US$ 100 billion climate finance goal pledged.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 14:04 UTC

  BAS and WWF invite the public to work on a “Walrus from Space” census

  

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and WWF are seeking the public’s help to search for walrus in thousands of satellite images taken from space, with the aim of learning more about how walrus will be impacted by the climate crisis. It’s hoped half a million people worldwide will join the new “Walrus from Space” research project, a census of Atlantic walrus and walrus from the Laptev Sea, using satellite images provided by space and intelligence company Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil envisions plans to cut down Amazon deforestation while developing other activities in the rainforest

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week 1 million hectares per year will suffer deforestation until the year 2030, despite Vice President Hamilton Mourão's announcement Monday that plans to avoid it would be announced at the upcoming 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-26) in Glasgow.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Crystal Endeavour scheduled to visit Falklands 21 December and 16 January

  

  Crystal Expedition Cruises will provide included round-trip chartered flights non stop between Miami and Ushuaia, Argentina, as well as hotel nights in both cities for Crystal Endeavor’s inaugural Antarctica program.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Greenpeace: “Coca Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi, ”world's top corporate plastic polluters”

  

  Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report: “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World's Top Corporate Plastic Polluters”, released by Greenpeace.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Climate change tops agenda during encounter between Argentine, US officials

  

  Argentina's Secretary of Strategic Affairs Gustavo Beliz and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held a meeting in Washington DC to discuss the climate change agenda and the current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, it was reported.