After starting with high hopes for more ambitious actions against the climate crisis, the negotiations ended in a familiar way: fancy words, not enough commitments….

It is fair to recognize that some progress has been made. But given that we have been going in circles for nearly three decades, we have earned the right to be wary of these new promises. After all, it might be another case of too little, too late. 

By this time next year, we could be reading the same old headlines, except that the number next to “COP” has changed. One way or another, we will cross the proverbial tipping point. The question is, will it be for the climate crisis or climate action? 

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The hard-fought Glasgow Climate Pact sent a clear message to global companies and executives: reassess business strategies and carbon footprints to reap monetary rewards, or lag and risk losses.

The deal announced late Saturday, November 13, ending two weeks of fraught negotiations between nearly 200 nations, pushes countries to do much more to curb climate-warming carbon emissions. That pressure will increasingly be imposed on investment and industry to bring emissions associated with their businesses in check.

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Digital artist Bricx Martillo Dumas of Leyte won first place in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) art competition, DigitalArt4Climate, with his work entitled “Nexus.”

The win was announced Sunday, November 14, through the competition’s official Instagram page.

Check out Dumas’ winning artwork and message here.

Nearly 200 nations agreed to adopt the Glasgow Climate Pact on Saturday, November 13, after more than two weeks of intense negotiations, with the UK, host of the talks, saying the deal would keep alive international hopes of averting the worst impacts of global warming.

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The British president of the COP26 climate summit, Alok Sharma, on Saturday, November 13, said he wished he had been able to preserve the originally agreed language on phasing out coal power in the Glasgow climate deal.

“Of course I wish that we had managed to preserve the language on coal that was originally agreed,” he told reporters.

“Nevertheless, we do have language on coal, on phase down, and I don’t think anyone at the start of this process would have necessarily expected that that would have been retained.”