'Palau is being ripped apart' President of Palau Surangel Whipps Jr says behaviours around using fossils fuels need to change and describes the impact climate change has had on Palau. Latest 👉 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Updates from climate change correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter, climate change reporter Victoria Seabrook and science correspondent Thomas Moore. Live reporting by Faith Ridler'We became a victim of something with which we had nothing to do': Pakistan PM gives emotive speech after devastating floods
"I'm sure all of you must have heard about the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, which impacted 33 million people."We struggled on with raging torrents … ripped out more than 8,000km of metal roads, damaged more than 3,000km of railway track and washed away standing crops on four million acres. Elsewhere, Octopus itself has invested £110m in the electric vehicle charging firm Be.EV; Aviva has put the same amount into another charging company, Connected Kerb; and Microsoft partnered with Wayve on developing AI for autonomous, sustainable vehicles.
But WTO discussions collapsed in 2016 after disagreements between China and Western countries about which products should be on the environmental list. Tuvalu PM Kausea Natano said that he would propose a non-proliferation treaty for coal, oil and natural gas later in a speech at the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Meanwhile, the UK's average land temperature has risen by around 1.2C from pre-industrial levels, sea levels have risen by 16cm since 1900 and episodes of extreme heat are becoming more frequent. 13:05:01A buzzword at today's talks is"adaptation" – but what does it mean?But the rich world has dragged its heels for so long that now the world has to adapt.
The World Bank will host a new facility that will help countries with heavy economic loss due to climate change, its president David Malpass said on Tuesday. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, is addressing delegates at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
She adds that, in Europe, countries are cutting dependence on Russian gas, which is good - but not enough.This will help the EU meet an"all time record" of 100 gigawatts of renewable capacity.
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