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Latest text published at COP26 – Greenpeace response
"The key line about fossil fuels is still in the text. It’s weak and compromised, but it’s a breakthrough, it’s a bridgehead and we have to fight like hell to keep it in there and have it strengthened."
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Article 6 negotiations risk blowing hole in Paris Agreement
“The new Article 6 text gives polluters the right to scam by allowing indefinite double counting of an emission reduction that has only happened once - or may not have happened at all."
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New COP26 final decision text – Greenpeace response
“It could be better, it should be better, and we have one day left to make it a lot, lot better." - Jennifer Morgan
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China USA Statement at COP26 – Greenpeace Response
Commenting on news of a bilateral US-China climate agreement in Glasgow
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Major global economies and car manufacturers fail to sign even the weakest of agreements on electric vehicles at COP26
Not only were major economies like the US, Germany, China, Japan and manufacturers including VW, Toyota and Hyundai absent from the signatories of the “declaration on zero emission cars and vans”, the scale of ambition in the deal itself was disappointingly weak.
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New COP26 Draft Decision Text – Greenpeace Response
We need to see a deal that commits countries to coming back every year with new and better plans until together they get us over the bar and we can stay below 1.5C of warming.
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Climate Action Tracker update is “devastating”
The respected Climate Action Tracker today releases its annual global update – calculating that taking into account 2030 pledges alone, the global temperature increase will be at 2.4C in 2100.
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Greenpeace sues Volkswagen for fuelling the climate crisis and violating future freedom and property rights
Car companies like Volkswagen need to take responsibility and act much faster to phase out the highly-polluting internal combustion engine, and decarbonise their activities.
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Glasgow first draft text revealed: “exceptionally weak” with no mention of fossil fuel phaseout – Greenpeace response
Thanks to blocking by fossil fuel interests, the first version of the official text, published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, fails to acknowledge that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis, nor does it make any commitment to tangible actions to end global reliance on coal, oil and gas.
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Environmental, Indigenous & human rights groups slam net-zero ‘smoke and mirrors’ at COP26
At the halfway point of COP26, leading Indigenous, environmental and human rights NGOs are criticising the focus on ‘net-zero’ targets due to their over-reliance on offsetting scams and unproven technology.