Tag: COP27

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 16:27 UTC

  COP27 ends in “historical” deal short of Europe's goals

  

  Delegates from the world over agreed Sunday on the need that wealthier nations should provide loss and damage funding to the countries most affected by climate change.

• Saturday, November 19th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  COP 27 to go on at least until Sunday

  

  World dignitaries gathered at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 27) Climate Change Summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh have agreed to extend their sessions for the weekend after no conclusive agreement was reached before Friday's closing day activities.

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  UN Chief says enough rhetoric regarding gas emissions

  

  UN Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday urged world governments to move on from rhetoric to action while pursuing an “ambitious” deal to preserve the environment. The Portuguese diplomat's remarks came during the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Lula wants to host COP30, announces Ministry of Indigenous People

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced during his appearance at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, that he will create a ministry of native peoples so that indigenous people “are not treated as bandits.”

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Paraguay not bowing to global pressure against cattle farming

  

  Paraguay's delegation attending the COP27 climate summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh Tuesday announced that the South American country would not endorse any collective statement curbing livestock farming.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Shipping industry addresses decarbonization goals: training of 800,000 seafarers required

  

  A new action plan, launched at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt by United Nations organizations, ship-owners and unions, sets out recommendations to up skill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonization goals.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 20:16 UTC

  COP27 told Brazil in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen

  

  Brazilian dignitaries to the Conference of Parties 27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm El-Sheikh announced that their country was in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen and electricity from wind turbines to be installed offshore.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands residents demand “local and world leaders tackle climate change”

  

  In the light and spirit of COP27 a group of Falklands residents have organized a demonstration to “demand action from leaders, both locally and worldwide to tackle the natural disasters we currently face,” organizer Mark McLeod told Penguin News. The demonstration will take place at the Jetty Centre at midday on Saturday November 12.

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro-Kerry handshake “unplanned,” US gov't says

  

  The Government of the United States was quick to explain Wednesday that the much-publicized handshake between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Climate Envoy John Kerry in Sharm El-Sheikh was an “unplanned” event.

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Germany, Norway and UK support plan to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

  

  Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom are supporting a plan from the Colombian government, working with local communities to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon, it was announced at the COP27 taking place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.