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The climate summit COP26 was accompanied by protests by social movements, with demonstrators arriving in Glasgow from all over the world and expressing themselves in their own language or dressing up as dinosaurs to symbolize their criticism. But government delegates did not listen to their demands for ambitious and fair action to contain the global warming crisis.

Social movement voices fall on deaf ears of governments at COP26

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Emilio Godoy, IPS — One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…

November 15, 2021

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The corridors of the Blue Zone of the Scottish Events Campus, where the official part of the 26th Climate Conference was held in the city of Glasgow, were emptying on Saturday Nov. 13, at the end of the summit, which lasted a day longer than scheduled and ended with a negative balance according to civil society organizations.

Glasgow summit ends amidst climate of disappointment

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Emilio Godoy, IPS — Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left them as an afterthought. That was the…

November 15, 2021

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How the wealthiest countries schemed to avoid economic commitments at COP26

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world’s leading problems, while preserving…

November 9, 2021

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