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Over 40 Countries Pledge at UN Climate Summit to End Use of Coal Power GLASGOW — More than 40 countries pledged to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a deal announced Thursday at the United Nations climate summit that prompted Alok Sharma, the head of the conference, to proclaim "the end of coal is in sight.".
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The world doesn't spend nearly enough preparing for climate disasters, UN report says The Adaptation Gap report, which was unveiled at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow Thursday, reflects a crystallizing reality: The world is increasingly unlikely to meet the ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees ...
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7 takeaways from Day 4 of COP26: 1.8 degrees within reach, a deal on coal, activists request fewer police Glasgow, Scotland (CNN) It was energy day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday -- and some pretty big announcements were made on the end of coal and fossil fuel financing. Here's what happened on the fourth day of the climate summit.
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Chinese tennis star accuses former top Communist Party leader of sexual assault, triggering blanket censorship Hong Kong (CNN) A Chinese tennis star's explosive #MeToo allegation against a former state leader has been muffled by blanket censorship, with authorities racing to wipe out any mention of a politically sensitive scandal that has reverberated across ...
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Humanity needs to ditch coal to save itself. It also needs to keep the lights on. The Eggborough power station is just one of 14 coal plants the United Kingdom has laid to rest over the past decade. In 2012, 40% of the UK's power came from coal. By 2020, it was below 2%. Last year, the country went for 67 days without using any coal for ...
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Bitterness Over Brexit Lies Behind Fraying France-UK Relations Britain and France have been at odds ever since Britain left the European Union two years ago. They have quarreled over the safety of a British coronavirus vaccine and a submarine alliance that united Britain, Australia and the United States but left an ...
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Man Charged in Abduction of 4-Year-Old Girl After 18-Day Search The legal action came as the Australian authorities continued to address questions about how the police had been able to find Cleo Smith, who vanished from a remote campsite.
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Conflict-of-Interest Case Has Boris Johnson Reversing Course, Again On Wednesday he intervened to stop the suspension from Parliament of Owen Paterson, a fellow Conservative Party lawmaker found to have broken rules on political lobbying. The government also pushed through contentious plans to change the system that ...
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Will Brazil really save the Amazon? The Amazon Rainforest faces a point of no return, and if deforestation is not stopped it could be lost for good. But Brazil knows exactly how to stop illegal deforestation – will it do it in time? I. In Careiro da Várzea, Brazil, just across the river ...
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After Cleo Smith's rescue, a man is charged with abducting the 4-year-old Australian Police charged Terry Kelly, a local resident, with forcibly taking a child among other offenses, a police statement said. Kelly appeared briefly in court in the town of Carnarvon where a magistrate refused to release ...
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