COP26 climate change

IMPRESSIVE AMBITIONS In an interview that the European Central Bank supervisors circulated to banks in the week after the ISSB announcement at COP26, John Berrigan, the Commission’s financial services director-general, discussed the EU’s…

The United States, Canada and 18 other countries committed at the COP26 climate summit on Thursday to stop public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of next year, and steer their spending into clean energy…

CHINA SURGE Looking at the national level, the report found a return to pre-COVID patterns among the world top four carbon polluters, which account for 60 per cent of global CO2 emissions. In China - which has pledged to peak its…

Observers say the Glasgow gathering, which runs until Nov 12, will be tough going. Most nations have already submitted their renewed emissions-cutting plans - known as "nationally determined contributions", or NDCs - in advance of COP26.…