Welcome to day nine of our daily broadcasts from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and from our hubs in Nairobi, Stockholm and Washington DC.
Today's theme is Circular Electronics. Learn about the challenges, and meet the players who are moving ahead of their competition through bold climate action.
With top speakers like: Sacha Ghiglione, CEO of Prime Computer; Claire Shrewsbury, Director of Insights & Innovation at WRAP; and Wolfgang Lehmachar, Director, Thought leader & Former Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at World Economic Forum.
One billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress if the global temperature rise reaches 2°C. According to new research released by the UK Met Office at COP26, the climate crisis drives up a deadly combination of heat and humidity, to a point where the human body is unable to get rid of excess heat. A 4°C rise could see nearly half of the world’s population living in areas potentially affected. Twelve donor governments have today pledged $413 million in new funding for the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). The 46 Least Developed Countries have contributed the least to carbon emissions, but face some of the highest risks from the effects of climate change. Today is Gender Day at COP26, and many countries around the world has made gender and climate pledges to strengthen the leadership of women and promote gender-transformative approaches. For instance, Canada ensured that 80% of its $5.3 billion climate investments over the next five years target gender equality outcomes, Nigeria expanded on its Implementation Strategy for their National Gender and Climate Action Plan, and the US committed new funding for gender-responsive climate programming. As the Climate Summit is soon halfway into its final week negotiators are working hard to come up with a number of final drafts of texts and commitments to be agreed upon. Not all is going well. According to the Financial Times, motor giants like Toytota, Volkswagen and BMW refuse to sign a deal to end car emissions by 2040. Among the governments unwilling to sign the document are the United States, China and Germany. Meanwhile, on the We Dont Have Time platform: • Washington Post has received Climate Love for investigative reporting revealing that many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations. • Jair Bolsonaro has recieved a Climate Warning (again) for his lack of climate action, which has resulted in a 45 percent increase in deforastation rate, and Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions rising by 9,5 perdent the last year. Jair Bolsonaro has also chosen not to attend COP26. • A Climate Idea has been sent to COP26, suggesting that the sense of urgency might be accelerated if the organisers gave delegates a taste of what awaits the planet — perhaps a lack of food or water, or just turning up the heat in the main pavilion. • Our selected contributor Graeme Maxton, climate change economist and former Secretary-General of the Club of Rome, has published a piece in which he questions carbon pricing as a way of cutting emissions. Opinions about carbon markets vary. We encourage an active debate on We Don't Have Time. | Help us end fossil fuel subsidies | |
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| | | Did you know that all our governments around the world actively support the destructive fossil fuel industry with $11 million in subsidies* — per minute! That means almost $150 billion since the start of the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow. This sum is already 50 percent higher than the annual climate finance that is currently being discussed at the Glasgow summit.
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