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hamas health officials say more than 10,500 people have been killed since the conflict began in gaza — nearly half of them children. israel has repeatedly warned palestinians to head south to greater safety, despite also bombarding that region. israel says 50,000 people left gaza city today as israeli troops tighten their grip on the area. the israeli army released video showing a long line of people on foot, many of them waving white flags, some holding their hands in the air. the u...

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Sense of the need for this global un meeting to step up and to have those voices influencing the big emitters. i dont know how much of the opening ceremony you have listened to but the italian prime minister, it was pretty restrained but you sensed his frustration that there was not a more concrete set of words coming out of the g20 which was held in rome of course, he was the host. we heard the prime minister of barbados talk about how unjust it was and how immoral it was that wealthier nations...

Product, the total value of goods and services produced. 75% of global trade, 60% of the worlds population, and most importantly for the summit, they produce collectively about 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. among them you have the big emitters, india, china, saudi arabia, australia, and they are all under pressure to be more ambitious in their carbon reduction targets. some of them have not brought in new targets, some of them have brought in new targets that are too soft, too low, to ...

Reduction targets on greenhouse gas reduction targets on greenhouse gas reduction targets. countries like china and india and saudi arabia and australia, big emitters, are not really producing these new ambitious carbon reduction targets in order to meet that aim of 1.5 cap on global warming and so the other ones who will be under a lot of pressure no to move forward in rome and in glasgow in the days ahead. the president of the cop26 conference is called the summit make or break for glasgow and...

Through to the glasgow summit for days of wrangling to try to get to the nitty—gritty of the actions they have to take to move towards the 1.5 degrees cap. in terms of the other thorny issue, which is achieving net—zero carbon emissions by 2050, well, that was the aim of some western leaders, including italy we understand, and quite possibly america, to have 2050 in the final communique, but it doesnt appear because all they talk about is net—zero carbon emissions by or around mid century....

Commitments, and he talked about saudi arabia in that respect. he referring to? the widely held belief here that while italy and quite possibly the us were pushing botnet zero carbon emissions to be reached in the year 2030 —— for net zero, that has not come into the final communiqu , because of opposition from the big emitters, including russia, china, saudi arabia, added their veering towards 2060, that will disappoint a lot of climb actaviss 2—mac, western leaders, quite possiblyjoe a c...

Lets go live to rome now. mark, around 200 nations will be represented at cop26 in glasgow, but to what extent is the direction of travel set by the net —— nations represented in rome in the g20, how much will that determine the result here in the next couple of weeks? i think very much so. the presence of cop26 has said that this g20 summit is make or break —— the president of cop26. the 620 is make or break —— the president of cop26. the g20 brings together the worlds largest econo...

Achieving net—zero carbon emissions by 2050, that was the aim of some western leaders, including italy we understand, and quite possibly america, to have 2050 in the final communique, but it doesnt appear because all we talk about is this net—zero carbon emissions by or around mid century. we understand that has been watered down because of opposition into a 2050 date from the big emitters, including china, india, russia, were all about 2060 instead of 2050. i think that will disappoint a lo...

Nations that collectively produce about 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, to commit to net a zero carbon by the middle of the century and to limit global warming of 1.5 degrees. but the big emitters, china, india and even russia, too, are more reluctant to phase out coal, more reluctant to commit to net zero carbon emissions so it is going to be a lot of thorny issues at this g20 summit but alec sharma, the president of the glasgow talks says this summit here in rome is make or break as to...