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Time for adaptation?

Envirotec Magazine

“The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation. Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least.

COP 130
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WoodMac: Emerging Solar Markets to Come of Age in 2020s

GreenTechMedia

Cumulative global solar installations have now surpassed 600 gigawatts, from around 20 gigawatts at the end of 2009. In 2009, China accounted for 2 percent of global installations. Reflecting on the 2010s. In the 2010s, solar defied expectations. Just eight years later, it claimed more than half of the market.

COP 130
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Defend Our Future Goes Abroad

Defend Our Future

For many years, young people were left out of formal negotiations and workshops at COP, but that changed with the creation of the Conference of Youth (COY) in 2005 and YOUNGO, the official children and youth constituency of UNFCCC in 2009. This statement is both functional and symbolic.

COP 52
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The True Power of the Climate Movement Is Now to Admit Our Own Powerlessness

DeSmogBlog

That the hopes invested when we were told for example in 2009 that we had eight years ( 100 months , to be precise) to save the world have definitively not been realised. And the Green Party. Any or all of these coming clean that one more heave — or one more standing order — is not going to do it.

COP 143
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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. At the end of 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit, COP15 , was held in Copenhagen. Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 Another time jump. The year was 2008.

COP 81
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Alok Sharma to call on IMF and World Bank to ramp up climate finance

Business Green

In a speech that has been billed as his last in his role as COP president, Sharma is set to outline the climate finance priorities ahead of the climate talks taking place next month, where the UK will officially hand over the COP presidency to host nation Egypt.

COP 45
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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

So I don't think it's as easy as saying it's going to be harder or easier, but I am very, very clear that there are some very problematic risks to achieving net zero and the Paris goals if we take the wrong response to the recovery, as we did in 2009.". Building back better. The 'strategic clarity' of net zero.