Presidents and prime ministers have left town. Now the hard work starts, with diplomats hunkering down in a cavernous tent complex at the U.N. climate talks here for the next week and a half, trying to hammer out deals to cut planet-warming emissions.

5 takeaways from the first days of the climate summit

Activists have criticised the menu being served at this year’s UN climate summit in Glasgow. It has at least one item that had a significantly larger carbon footprint than the average meal in the UK.

Climate activists mock COP26 menu over meat, fish selection  

COP26 summit has entered its final week, and while speaking to world leaders, UK PM Boris Johnson urged the countries to "make the bold compromises and ambitious commitments needed.

As COP26 enters its final week, Boris Johnson urges countries to 'make the bold compromises'

For more than two decades, promoters and purveyors of nuclear energy felt shunned at UN climate change conferences. At the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, however, they have been welcomed with open arms, the UN's top nuclear regulator told AFP.

Climate crisis could give nuclear energy a second wind

Mega summits are always a logistics nightmare, and when heads of state of over a dozen countries are coming, it is a challenge in every sense. Even amidst challenge, hosts Italy and UK for the G20 and Glasgow COP26 climate summit gave "special protocol consideration" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian delegation, it is learnt.

G20, COP26 saw special protocol for Indian PM Modi

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Paris to demand meaningful action from world leaders at the Glasgow COP26 summit on Saturday. Demonstrators answering the call of various environmental NGOs held banners and signs, performed stunts and chanted slogans in front of the French capital's city hall.

Paris protesters call for 'concrete actions' on climate change at COP26

Indonesian Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar has slammed the terms of deal under the COP26 to end deforestation by 2030, calling it “inappropriate and unfair” days after the island country’s President Joko Widodo joined with 127 other nations to sign the historic forest agreement.

Indonesia calls COP26 deforestation pledge ‘unfair’, says development ‘won’t stop in the name of emissions’

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Friday branded COP26 climate summit in Glasgow 'failure'. The climate summit in the Scottish city produced what some experts say vague promises to cut emissions even after a week of negotiations.

Greta Thunberg calls COP26 climate summit 'a failure'

Several major coal-using nations have pledged for the first time to phase out their use of the heavily-polluting fossil fuel, while others announced commitments to end investment in new coal-fired power plants.

COP26 Climate Summit: Several countries set coal phase out deadline

A new study has revealed that only two per cent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has escaped bleaching since 1998. The research, conducted by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology.

Research reveals only 2% of Australia's Great Barrier Reef escaped bleaching

Russia and China have defended their measures on climate change in the face of criticism from US President Joe Biden, and both nations have criticised the US for 'backsliding' on its climate plans.

COP26: China, Russia hit back at Biden's jibe, slam US on climate policies

More than 40 countries have agreed to ''consigning coal to history'' and phase out the world's dirtiest fossil fuel. The agreement in the COP26 summit will help to keep the United Nation's goal to limit global heating to 1.

'Consigning coal to history': Over 40 countries agree to phase out dirtiest fossil fuel

Developing countries need up to 10 times more funding to protect themselves from increasingly ferocious effects of climate change than the world has currently earmarked, the UN said on Thursday.

Climate adaptation cash one tenth of amount needed: UN

The UN's COP26 climate summit has not concluded, the host of the summit and UK PM Boris Johnson has already found himself in the middle of a controversy.

Climate pledges just a gimmick for UK PM Boris Johnson? | COP26

Global CO2 emissions caused mainly by burning fossil fuels are set to rebound in 2021 to pre-Covid levels, with China's share increasing to nearly a third of the total, according to an assessment published Thursday.

Climate 'reality check': Global CO2 emissions near record levels in 2021

COP26 features global leaders with a focus on climate issues across the world. Yet, Israel's differently-abled energy minister Karine Elharrar was unable to attend UN's COP26 session in Glasgow because the route to the venue wasn't wheelchair-friendly. UK PM Boris Johnson apologized her for the inconvenience caused.

Boris Johnson apologizes to Israeli minister Karine Elharrar over wheelchair access | COP26

On day 2 of the COP26 summit, Nearly 800 countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led pledge to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030. The pact aims at tackling one of the main causes of climate change, a senior Biden administration official stated.

Nearly 80 countries join US-EU pledge to slash methane emissions | COP26 climate conference

Indian PM Narendra Modi called for ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid' to improve the viability of solar power and announced that India's space agency (ISRO) will provide the world a calculator that can measure solar energy potential of any region.

Indian PM Narendra Modi launches ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid' at COP26 summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Vietnam counterpart Pham Minh Chinh and had a productive exchange on the sideline of COP26 in Glasgow, informed the Embassy of India in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Indian PM Modi, Vietnam's Pham Minh Chinh meet on sidelines of COP26, reaffirm strategic ties

On the second day of United Nations COP26 Climate summit, more than 100 world leaders promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.

COP26 Summit Day 2: Over 100 world leaders pledge to halt deforestation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches India after concluding five-day foreign visit to Rome, Italy and Glasgow, UK. PM Modi enhanced India's self-declared renewable energy commitments at COP26 in Glasgow, and outlined India's position on global issues at G20 Summit.

PM Modi reaches India after concluding five-day visit to G20 and COP26 summit

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday called upon the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) to work closely to protect the interests of developing countries and urged that climate finance cannot continue at the levels decided in 2009 and should be increased to at least 1 trillion dollars to meet the goals of addressing climate change.

India calls for hike in climate finance to $1 trillion

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Green Grids Initiative—One Sun One World One Grid, with his UK counterpart Boris Johnson at COP26 Climate summit. The initiative brings together the International Solar Alliance and the UK’s green grid initiative and complements India’s focus on harnessing the sun’s energy.

PM Modi- Boris Johnson launch 'One Sun One World One Grid' under green grids initiative

US President Joe Biden has criticised Russia and China for missing the crucial United States climate change conference, COP26. He said that both the countries have ''walked away'' from the ''gigantic issue'' of global warming that is adversely affecting the entire world.

US President Joe Biden slams Russia, China for missing COP26

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