Voice of climate-by Naseem Sheikh

The COP26 is the largest international event of its kind ever to be held in the UK with more than 25,000 delegates arriving in the city of Glasgow - including world leaders, opinion formers, and business giants. It will work to prevent global temperatures rising above 1.5C and protect our planet and people from the impacts of climate change. The UK has already achieved notable successes. Around 70% of the world’s economy is now covered by net zero targets, up from less than 30% when the UK took on the Presidency of COP26.   A fter a year-long delay, the UN Climate Summit COP26 in Glasgow has finally taken off. Here are some of today's highlights: Sir David Attenborough set a hopeful tone for COP26. Read more about it and watch his powerful speech. President Erdogan of Turkey, backed out of the summit at the last minute, with no explanation. Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO of We Don't Have Time, asked a question to the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven about fossil-fuel subsi...

  Today’s selected broadcast,  Food Production & Nature-based solutions , is part of the Exponential Climate Action Summit IV    Listen to renowned speakers such as  IbrahimThiaw,  Executive Secretary of the UN Conventions to Combat Desertification (UNCCD);  Johan Falk , founder of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative; and  Emelie Öhlander , Climate Action Program Manager at Ericsson.   You will also hear about two great solutions to restore degraded land and learn about the world’s first climate-positive hamburger chain.   9:00-10:00 –  Nordic Climate Leadership The Nordic countries have long been climate policy pioneers. But what are the associated drivers, barriers, and results, and how can the remaining gaps within targets be bridged? This workshop explores how lessons learned can be of value outside the Nordic Countries, and what can be learned from efforts elsewhere.   Speakers:  Mikael Karlsson , Associate Profess...

The prestigious Young Champions of the Earth prize, powered by Covestro, is awarded every year by UN Environment to young environmentalists between the ages of 18 and 30, for their outstanding ideas to protect the environment. Twenty-nine-year-old wildlife ethno-conservationist Adjany Costa from Angola has won the Young Champions of the Earth Prize for her efforts to conserve precious water and biodiversity hotspots in Angola. As world leaders gather at the UN Headquarters in New York for the Climate Action Summit and General Assembly in the coming days, environment and climate will be at the lead topics of negotiations. Youth around the world are already taking action, because there is no time to lose. Costa’s solution is to work with the Luchaze community in the Eastern Angolan highlands, threatened by unsustainable livelihood practices following the country’s three-decade-long civil war which ended in 2002, as well as clearing of Miombo woodland once landmines are removed....