COP26 Highlights: Over 130 countries, covering 90% of the world’s forests committed to halt forest loss by 2030

The ongoing COP26 UN climate summit is seeing resistance from youth groups, with activist Greta Thunberg saying the talks are a 'failure' and thousands descending on Glasgow for protests. Meanwhile, 45 countries have pledged to protect nature from the climate crisis. Stay tuned for live updates.

Over 130 countries, covering 90% of the world’s forests committed to halt, reverse forest loss by 2030

People participate in a protest rally during a global day of action on climate change in Glasgow (AFP)

Farmers in low-income countries are at high risk from the impacts of climate change

Activists in Benue, Nigeria want COP26 to make it clear that climate breakdown is responsible for water shortages and food insecurity in their region and across the world

Countries representing 45% of forest cover are now engaged in the FACT (Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade) dialogue to halt forest loss in supply chains (COP26)

Actor Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba attend the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow (Reuters)

Why taking action on climate change is an Islamic obligation

As more than 100 world leaders meet this week in Glasgow, attention is on a handful of major economic powers and the hope that COP26 turns the tide of climate change.

If there is to be real progress, every country has to do its part, including Muslim-majority countries.

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People participate in a rally during a global day of action on climate change in Melbourne on November 6, 2021, as world leaders attend the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

People participate in a rally during a global day of action on climate change in Melbourne on November 6, 2021, as world leaders attend the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

Glasgow braces for climate protests on global day of action

Glasgow was on Saturday bracing for a second day of protests against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming after Greta Thunberg labelled the crunch UN climate summit there a "failure".

Organisers and police said they expected up to 50,000 people in the streets of the Scottish city as part of about 200 protests worldwide demanding immediate action for communities already hit by the fallout of our heating planet.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Glasgow to hammer out how to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting temperature rises to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius.

Husband of UK-Iranian held in Iran vows to keep up hunger strike

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian held in Iran since 2016, vowed to maintain a hunger strike he started nearly two weeks ago to denounce the "complacency" of the British government and its failure to secure the release of his wife.

"It's not a stunt. It's not a game, a hunger strike, it's not a light thing," Richard Ratcliffe told AFP on Friday during a vigil held to support his fast, which he started on Sunday, October 24 outside the Foreign Office in London.

"The status quo is unacceptable," he said, on the pavement with their daughter Gabriella in front of a display of candles spelling out "Free Nazanin," three weeks after Zaghari-Ratcliffe lost her appeal against a second jail term in Iran. (PTI)

How climate pledges may, or may not, affect heating

After a week of negotiations filled with grand announcements from nations promising to accelerate the decline of fossil fuels, where do the pledges put projected emissions halfway through the COP26 climate summit?

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UN, UK vow to push youth climate demands at COP26 summit

Young people took centre-stage at the COP26 UN climate talks on Friday, presenting their demands for a greener, fairer world to the UN climate chief and senior UK politicians who promised to recommend their proposals to governments at the summit.

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