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CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2021

1 NOVEMBER 2021 || The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William attended a reception for the Finalists of the first Earthshot Prize Awards at the Clydeside Distillery and a reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus for the foreign world leaders and other attendees.

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Coral goes white before it dies

With Diana Kristin Bechmann in Glasgow for Cop26, acrylics and pencil on paper, November 2021

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Vexed Smog monster. 😡🏭🌍⛽️🛢🚬

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CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2021

1 NOVEMBER 2021 || The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William arrived in Glasgow for COP26 Summit and met young scouts to hear how about their "Promise to the Planet" campaign.

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Five things you need to know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

COP26 saw incremental progress but not the breakthrough moment needed.

The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries.

If the 2015 Paris Agreement provided the framework for countries to tackle climate change then Glasgow, six years on, was the first major test of this high-water mark of global diplomacy.

So what have we learnt from two weeks of leaders’ statements, massive protests and side deals on coal, stopping fossil fuel finance and deforestation, plus the final signed Glasgow Climate Pact?

From phasing out coal to carbon market loopholes, here is what you need to know:

Progress on cutting emissions, but nowhere near enough

The door is ajar for further cuts in the near future

Rich countries continued to ignore their historical responsibility

Loopholes in carbon market rules could undermine progress

Thank climate activists for the progress – their next moves will be decisive

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India calls COP26 Glasgow climate summit a 'success'

India calls COP26 Glasgow climate summit a ‘success’

India on Sunday described the COP26 summit as a “success”, saying it had expressed the concerns and ideas of the developing world “briefly and unequivocally” to the international community. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed to a new climate agreement after the COP26 summit in Glasgow wrapped up full-time on Saturday with a deal recognizing India’s intervention in the world to “phase…

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WATCH: Nicola Sturgeon hailed as the 'true leader' at COP26 summit

NICOLA Sturgeon has been hailed as the "true leader" to emerge from COP26 after she doubled a commitment to help tackle the damages of…

NICOLA Sturgeon has been hailed as the "true leader" to emerge from COP26 after she doubled a commitment to help tackle the damages of climate change.

Despite Scotland not being an active party at COP26 due to being grouped with the UK, Scotland's First Minister has been making an impact at the climate talks.

Yesterday, she was given the "Ray of the Day" award at the summit after she announced a £1 million commitment to tackle loss and damage caused by climate change would be doubled.

The fund is separate from a $100 billion global fund to a Climate Justice Fund, for which she has also trebled Scotland's commitment over the course of the current parliamentary term.Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development, praised the FM as becoming the "true leader" who has emerged from this summit.

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Bojo the clown will be pissed given that he's tried to sideline Sturgeon. And while she was acting as a leader should Bojo was using a Cop26 news conference to assure the world that “the UK is not remotely a corrupt country” but with the Tories tanking in the polls it's not the world he needs to convince.

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Five EU countries form anti-nuclear alliance at COP26

In face of a French-led push to revive nuclear power in Europe, a group of five EU countries led by Germany have banded together to urge the

In face of a French-led push to revive nuclear power in Europe, a group of five EU countries led by Germany have banded together to urge the European Commission to keep nuclear out of the EU’s green finance taxonomy.

“Nuclear power is incompatible with the EU Taxonomy Regulation’s ‘do no significant harm’ principle“, says the joint declaration for a nuclear-free EU taxonomy signed by Austria, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal.

“We have plenty of evidence of how dangerous nuclear power can be,” said Leonore Gewessler, Austrian minister for energy, at a side-event at COP26 in Glasgow on 11 November.

The European Commission is expected to table a proposal in the coming weeks that will clarify the status of nuclear and gas under the EU’s green finance taxonomy, a rulebook that provides guidance to investors by spelling out conditions under which technologies can be considered sustainable.

Austria and Luxembourg are the fiercest opponents of nuclear power in Europe, and have resisted the inclusion of nuclear power in the taxonomy since the beginning, an EU diplomat told EURACTIV.

The two countries appear to have used the Glasgow UN climate summit to bring Germany, Portugal and Denmark on their side.

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