Etiqueta: summit
Glasgow bin workers to strike during Cop26 climate summit
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Bin workers in Glasgow have confirmed that they will strike during the Cop26 climate conference, amid growing anxieties that the city’s summit arrangements are falling into chaos with threats of industrial action acro...
La credibilidad climática de Boris Johnson está en juego antes de la cumbre de la Cop26
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Boris Johnson enfrenta una prueba significativa de su liderazgo antes de la cumbre climática de la Cop26, ya que el canciller y el secretario comercial están en guerra por el plan inminente para alcanzar emisiones netas de dióxido de carbono cero.. El g ...
‘Last-chance saloon’: Prince Charles urges Scott Morrison to attend Cop26 climate summit
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Prince Charles has urged the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to attend this month’s critical Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, saying it could be the world’s last chance to take action. In a wide-ranging...
ScotRail engineers plan strikes during Glasgow climate summit
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ScotRail engineers are planning strike action that they say is likely to severely disrupt travel to the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow next month, as unions accuse management of risking “national embarrassment”. ...
Biden to rally regional support for China containment strategy at Quad summit
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Joe Biden will host the first in-person summit of the Quad countries – the US, India, Japan and Australia – at the White House on Friday as he ratchets up the reorientation of US foreign policy towards the Pacific and...
The UN summit on food systems took two years to plan. It’s offered nothing to help feed families
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The role of the UN’s dozens of independent experts, or special rapporteurs, is to report and advise on various human rights. My role revolves around the right to food – which is under enormous threat. The world’s foo...
‘Corporate colonization’: small producers boycott UN food summit
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Hundreds of civil society groups, academics and social movements are boycotting the first UN global food summit amid growing anger that the agenda has been hijacked by an opaque web of corporate interests. Called the ...
Biden anuncia que EE. UU. Donará otras 500 millones de dosis de vacuna en la cumbre Covid - live
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UN food summit will be ‘elitist’ and ‘pro-corporate’, says special rapporteur
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The UN global food summit is “elitist and regressive” and has failed in its goal of being a “people’s summit”, according to the special rapporteur on food rights. As world leaders prepare to attend the virtual event o...
UK-France defence summit cancelled in Aukus row
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A Franco-British defence ministers’ summit due to take place this week has been cancelled as Paris steps up its protests over the loss of a £48bn submarine contract with Australia and its secret replacement with nucle...
Devon teenager to cycle to Glasgow for Cop26 climate summit
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Unable to afford the exorbitant train fare and refusing to fly, a 16-year-old environmental campaigner has decided to cycle 570 miles to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow – and has invited the public to join her for the rid...
Buscado: your spare room for global visitors to Glasgow’s climate summit
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En octubre, Calfín Lafkenche of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, on the southernmost tip of Chile, will embark on an 8,000-mile journey across the Atlantic. He won’t be the only one taking such a trip; indigenous peop...
Indigenous peoples call for ‘new alliance with equal rights’ at IUCN conservation summit
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Indigenous voices on the environment are finally being heard as Marseille hosts a global biodiversity summit, with a call to protect 80% of the Amazon, as well as a “counter conference” highlighting the conservation m...
Tulip, Summit, Mound: can urban properties really be ‘experiences’?
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What do a fake hill, a giant light-up ball, gondola rides 300 metres in the air, staircases to nowhere, a park perched over a river and a glass elevator stuck on the side of a skyscraper have in common? They are all p...
World’s biggest biodiversity summit since Covid opens in Marseille
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The world’s biggest biodiversity summit since the start of the pandemic has opened in the French port city of Marseille with a warning from Emmanuel Macron that “there is no vaccine for a sick planet”. Speaking at the...
Glasgow records hottest summer in run-up to Cop26 climate summit
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Glasgow, the host city of the crucial Cop26 UN climate summit in November, has experienced its hottest summer on record, the Met Office has said. Scotland also recorded the highest UK temperature in August – 27.2C (80...