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Speaking at the event in Riyadh on Saturday, Prince Charles said there was a 'dangerously narrow window' to accelerate climate action. In a video message to the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, and just a week before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, the Prince of Wales said world leaders must ‘consider the kind of future existence that we are bequeathing to our grandchildren and their children's children’. He also welcomed Saudi Arabia’s target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060.

• Saudi Arabia sets target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060

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One of world’s biggest oil exporters more than doubles its annual target to reduce carbon emissions

Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s top oil exporters, has announced it aims to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 and more than double its annual target to reduce carbon emissions.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the announcement in brief scripted remarks at the start of the kingdom’s first Saudi Green Initiative Forum.

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Government urged to carry out comprehensive review of curriculum and decarbonise school estate by 2030

Climate crisis education should become fully embedded in the system, unions have urged.

A joint letter to the education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, calls for a review of the curriculum to ensure everyone is mobilised for a “sustainable future”.

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Ambivalence, industrial disputes and other issues are complicating city’s build-up to the climate conference

Diwali candles in pretty terracotta pots are stacked around the counter at Suresh & Sons grocer in Finnieston, the Glasgow district that borders the UN-managed “blue zone” of the Scottish Event Campus. Next weekend more than 30,000 delegates from 196 countries will converge on the area for the crucial two-week Cop26 climate conference.

Four days into the event is the Hindu festival of lights, Leena Kumar explains. The council advised her to talk to suppliers about getting stock delivered before the road closures begin this weekend, but it is not that easy, she says. “We are well-informed, but we still don’t know what’s going to happen,” she laughs.

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An insider says keeping temperatures within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels rests with big developing countries in G20

As we get closer to the beginning of Cop26, I worry that the main goal – keeping temperature rises within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels – is slipping away.

The Covid-19 pandemic offered the opportunity for a global reset. We could rebuild in a way that was green and with lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Every week we’ll hear from negotiators from a developing country that is involved in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations and will be attending the Cop26 climate conference.

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Each item will have an estimate of its carbon footprint, so visitors can make ‘climate-friendly choices’

Plant-based dishes will dominate the menu at the Cop26 climate conference, where 80% of the food will be from Scotland.

The low-carbon menu includes 95% British food, especially locally sourced Scottish produce, and each menu item has an estimate of its carbon footprint, “helping attendees make climate-friendly choices”.

Winter squash lasagne (0.7kg CO2 equivalent emissions) – celeriac, glazed root vegetables and winter squash, with a vegan cheddar.

Organic kale and seasonal vegetable pasta (0.3kg CO2 ee) – spelt fusilli, field mushrooms, kale and seasonal vegetables.

Braised turkey meatballs (0.9kg CO2 ee) – with organic spelt penne pasta in a tomato ragu.

Organic spelt wholegrain penne pasta (0.2kg CO2 ee) – with a tomato ragu, kale, pesto and oatmeal crumble.

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Summit president says 2015 global emissions agreement a ‘framework’ but rules were left for future talks

Achieving a global climate deal in Glasgow in the next three weeks will be harder than signing the Paris agreement of 2015, the UK president-designate of the Cop26 talks has said.

Alok Sharma, the cabinet minister in charge of the UK-hosted talks, just over a week away, said the task would be to get nearly 200 countries to implement stringent cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions, in line with holding global temperature increases to within 1.5C of pre-industrial levels – a goal fast receding as global carbon output continues to climb.

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Network to pilot “disconnected microgrids” – comprising mostly renewables - that will cut links to main grid and deliver, cheaper, cleaner and more reliable power.

The post Whole towns to be taken off the grid and powered by stand-alone renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Emissions, logistics and pure economics all pose strong arguments against Santos' Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea. And CCS won't help.

The post Carbon capture and storage won’t save Santos’ new LNG “emissions factory” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Millions of tonnes of sand were shifted to part of the Norfolk coast - have they held back the sea?

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The Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks (MECP) on Friday adopted an amendment package for the province’s Emissions Performance Standards (EPS) that will align the province’s electricity sector benchmark with the federal ‘backstop’, but did not indicate whether it will move to incorporate carbon offsets in the nascent scheme.

The UN International Marine Organisation (IMO) faces continued drag in developing policies to reduce GHGs, with some countries claiming that the cost is too high even as the container shipping industry sees record-breaking profits this year.

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Financial players unwound their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions slightly over the week, while compliance entities kept their holdings nearly unchanged, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

A group of Canadian fossil fuel companies on Thursday announced their three-step approach to reaching net zero operational emissions by 2050, with the first phase to focus heavily on a CO2 transportation and storage network in the oil sands heartland of Alberta.

North American carbon allowance prices set new all-time highs on Friday morning, with California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) surpassing $30 and RGGI Allowances (RGAs) bubbling closer to the programme’s Cost Containment Reserve trigger level before both products retraced.

With Glasgow around the corner and an election in sight, the prime minister could’ve done without this week’s privileges committee fracas

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Funnily enough, the most explosive drama of the week was not Liberals and Nationals facing off about the net zero target. That bullfight had been long scheduled.

The lesser-known fracas inside the government unfolded shortly after it used its numbers in the House of Representatives to quash Labor’s bid to refer Christian Porter’s use of a blind trust to pay legal fees to the privileges committee.

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Only around one in eight CDM projects could deliver abatement that would not otherwise happen if those carbon-cutting activities were allowed to transition into the Paris Agreement regime, according to researchers.