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Countries taking part in an annual UN food security meeting have failed to agree on a shared response to widespread hunger and supply chain disruption triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The young Swedish climate activist does not expect much from either the U.S. president or COP26, the make-or-break summit that runs Oct. 31 to Nov. 12. 

More than 90 climate justice organizations have delivered a letter, including ads in major global newspapers, calling on former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England Mark Carney to push banks harder to abandon their fossil fuel investments.

Vital United Nations climate talks, billed as one of the last chances to stave off climate breakdown, will not produce the breakthrough needed to fulfil the aspiration of the Paris Agreement, key players in the talks have conceded.

An international conference aimed at tackling hunger and reducing the environmental impact of our food could end up making the situation worse, including in Canada, a coalition of farmers, activists, and scholars are warning. 

At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the UN’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all UN peacekeeping operations.

COP26 is being called our “last hope” for meeting the world’s Paris Agreement goal, and the role of youth is more important than ever.

A global agreement to curb plastic pollution is a few steps closer to becoming a reality after several countries, including the European Union — but not Canada — backed a draft resolution that will speed up negotiations towards an agreement. 

COP15 negotiations to set this decade’s targets on nature to be split into two, with face-to-face meetings delayed until 2022.

One of the difficulties of trying to stop fossil fuel production in Canada is many groups soft-pedal the real problem — the end use of the product, writes Ross Belot.

Many of the climate and energy ministers at a Group of 20 meeting hosted by Italy agreed Friday to work toward even more ambitious goals for fighting climate change than those established in the 2015 Paris accords, an Italian official said.

The former UN secretary-general reflects on the dinner parties and diplomacy that led to the Paris Agreement.

None of Canada’s big five banks were founding signatories of the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) that promised April 21 to align investment portfolios with science-based climate targets starting in 2030.

The “Global Registry of Fossil Fuels” would fill a major gap in public knowledge, where only expensive or proprietary databases on fossil fuel reserves have existed before, or ones that are not detailed enough or are designed for industry use. 

Members from across party lines joined forces Thursday to call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sign a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons, which takes effect Friday.