UN Climate Summit

• Canada allocates 20 per cent of climate funding to tackle biodiversity loss

  Canada's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made the promise during a Saturday speech at the United Nations COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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  Nov 6, 2021
  
• COP26: Trudeau says world needs a ‘standard’ for pricing carbon. What might that look like?

  The COP26 summit comes as the world is experiencing dramatic effects from climate change, and as leaders face growing pressure to chart a unified path forward to mitigate harms.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2021
  
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• Alberta has much on the line as UN climate conference gets set to begin

  Alberta will be watching closely as the most significant global climate change summit since Paris in 2015 gets underway in Glasgow.

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  Oct 30, 2021
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• Talking to Trump would have ‘wasted my time,’ Greta Thunberg says of UN moment

  Greta Thunberg explained why she settled on a 'death stare' over a discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump at the UN.

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  Dec 30, 2019
• Key issues unresolved at UN climate summit as meeting reaches ‘final hours’

  Negotiators split their work into two parts, separating discussions on aid for poor countries affected by climate change from those over a deal on international carbon markets.

  World

  Dec 13, 2019
• Time names climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year

  Thunberg, who turns 17 in January and who is known for her blunt, straightforward speaking manner, has urged immediate action to address what she describes as the global climate crisis.

  World

  Dec 11, 2019
• Trump calls teen Greta Thunberg a ‘happy young girl’ after her angry, impassioned speech

  "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future," Trump wrote in a tweet posted late Monday. "So nice to see!"

  World

  Sep 24, 2019
• ‘How dare you’: Greta Thunberg gives powerful, emotional speech to the UN

  Greta Thunberg scolded the leaders of the world, saying: "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words."

  Environment

  Sep 23, 2019
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• Make Earth carbon neutral by 2050, UN chief urges at summit

  Heads of nations such as Finland and Germany promised to ban coal within a decade.

  Environment

  Sep 23, 2019
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• Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante thanks youth for holding leaders accountable at UN Climate Summit

  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante spoke at the United Nations at the opening of the UN Climate Summit.

  Environment

  Sep 23, 2019