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  • Global Day of Action: Tens of thousands to march in Glasgow against climate change alongside millions around the world as city hosts COP26

    Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is expected to speak to tens of thousands of climate campaigners at a rally in Glasgow later.

    Saturday 6 November 2021 10:07, UK
    Sophie Morris

    As the UN Climate Conference continues, thousands will take to the streets in Glasgow today, alongside millions more in other towns and cities across the world, in a Global Day of Action against climate change.

    In Glasgow, a crowd will march to the city for a rally in the afternoon where teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg will address tens of thousands of climate campaigners as the city hosts the COP26 summit.

    HIGHLIGHTS FROM COP26 SO FAR

    US and Canada are among 20 nations to agree to stop fossil fuel financing by the end of 2022

    • At least 23 nations say they will phase out coal power in 2030s or 2040s depending on size, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Poland, and Ukraine

    • The UK will force financial firms and major businesses to publish plans about how they will get to net zero

    • Rishi Sunak also announced firms controlling 40% of global assets totalling $130 trillion will align with the Paris Agreement

    • At least 110 countries representing 85% of the world's forests agreed to end and reverse deforestation by 2030

    • South Africa, the most coal-intensive economy in the G20, will get $8.5bn to help decarbonise from the UK the EU, the US, France and Germany, in an innovative partnership that shows how side deals agreed outside of the traditional UN process can help close the emissions gap.

    • Scores of world leaders signed a pledge to slash potent climate heating gas methane by 30% by 2030, a gas that could significantly help slow short term warming

    • Japan committed an extra $10bn in climate finance over five years

    • Over 40 world leaders back plan to fund clean technology around the world by 2030, the UK government announced

    • India finally came forward with a net zero promise - the 2070 target is 20 years later than the key 2050 date but still a big step forward, especially with its commitment to significantly slash emissions by 2030

    Five countries, including Britain and the United States, and a group of global charities promised $1.7bn to support indigenous people's conservation of forests and strengthen their land rights

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