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Category: COP31

  • Thousands to take to the streets demanding climate justice at Cop31

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    Activist Teresa Anderson leads a demonstration for climate justice at the Cop31 UN Climate Summit in Antalya, Turkey, November 13, 2026

    THOUSANDS are expected to take to the streets of Antalya on Saturday as part of a global day of action demanding climate justice as the UN Cop31 climate talks take place in the Turkish city.

    Climate organisations, supported by youth groups, communities, workers and Indigenous peoples, are mobilising to tell governments at the summit that the crisis “cannot be solved through empty promises, corporate greenwashing or market-based false solutions.” 

    Organisers are calling for an end to new fossil fuel projects and a rapid, fair and fully funded transition to 100 per cent renewable energy.

    They are also demanding public, non-debt-creating climate finance for the Global South, full reparations for loss and damage, food sovereignty, and protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities. 

    The demands also include an end to wars, occupation and militarisation as well as standing in solidarity with people facing violence and displacement in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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    Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-take-part-global-day-action-amid-cop31

    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images)
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards

  • The planet ‘is being killed’, Greta Thunberg tells Cop31 climate summit

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    Greta Thunberg is escorted by police officers after the press conference on day four at Cop31. Photograph: Burak Kara/Getty Images

    Swedish activist criticised world governments for their failure to prevent environmental breakdown

    The planet is “not dying, it is being killed and we know by who”, said Greta Thunberg, who excoriated world governments for their failure to prevent environmental breakdown in her first appearance at the annual UN climate talks in five years.

    Thunberg, 23, the Swedish activist who became famous for heading the school climate strike movement, delivered her stark message to those gathered at the Cop31 summit in Antalya, Turkey, amid the ongoing failure by countries to adequately address the climate crisis.

    “It [Earth] is being killed by the very same people thought to come to our rescue,” Thunberg said.

    “No one is coming to our rescue. When our human rights are being threatened by states and other institutions, it’s our duty to stand up and be the adult in the room and fight for everyone’s human rights.”

    Thunberg, who in recent years has shifted her focus towards other areas such as the conflict in Gaza, linked worsening global heating to other calamities such as war in an appearance alongside activists from Nepal, Canada and Australia.

    “We are heading towards a future of more genocides and more ecocides and the complete compromise of our basic rights and where basic necessities become luxuries,” she said.

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    Continues at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/12/greta-thunberg-cop31-climate-summit

    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images)
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he's delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election - don't want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he’s delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election – don’t want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    Climate science denier Donald Trump confirms that he knows nothing about democracy and that more liquid gold is being secured according to his policy of global privateering.
    Climate science denier Donald Trump confirms that he knows nothing about democracy and that more liquid gold is being secured according to his policy of global privateering.

  • ‘Britain ready’ to fight climate change, Burnham claims at Cop31 after greenlighting fossil fuel project

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    Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech during the Cop31 UN Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Turkey, November 12, 2026

    ANDY BURNHAM told world leaders today that “Britain is back and ready to play its full part” in tackling climate change just weeks after his government greenlit the Jackdaw gas field.

    The Prime Minister made the remarks in his address to the United Nations Cop31 summit in Turkey as a decision looms on whether to license the UK’s biggest untapped oil and gas field, Rosebank.

    Mr Burnham, speaking to an audience that included London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, said: “The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is upon us all now, devastating lives and livelihoods everywhere.

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    But, in the wake of the recent approval of Jackdaw, new analysis from campaign group Uplift suggested that pending North Sea licences, if granted, could generate lifetime emissions equivalent to the UK annual total.

    Climate campaigners also appeared unconvinced by Mr Burnham’s rhetoric.

    Green Party leader Zack Polanski accused the PM of being “all mouth and no trousers, and no more so than on climate action.”

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    Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-recommits-net-zero-campaigners-demand-deeds

    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he's delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election - don't want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he’s delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election – don’t want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images)
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards

  • UK ministers have no plans to publish explosive report on climate crisis

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    A screen shows Andy Burnham addressing Cop31 in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday. The prime minister told fellow leaders the UK was still aiming for net zero by 2050. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

    Andy Burnham’s newly appointed climate adviser used report to warn of national security risk from collapsing ecosystems

    The UK government still has no plans to publish an explosive report showing the national security risk from the collapse of ecosystems around the world – even after handing the key official behind the report a new advisory role.
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    The report was supposed to be launched at last year’s Cop, but was suppressed by Keir Starmer’s government. The Guardian revealed – through a leak – the key contents of the report ahead of its intended launch last year, and early this year a redacted version was put out. Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, has briefed foreign governments on the findings and the report clearly influenced Burnham’s decision to appoint Alessandri, but the report itself remains under wraps.

    Burnham told Cop31 that Britain was ready to play its full part. “The message I carry here, in my first Cop as prime minister, is that the UK remains determined to reach net zero by 2050 and to work with our partners to build a clean energy future,” he said.

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    Ami McCarthy, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said of Burnham’s speech to Cop: “[It] hit the right notes, but noises offstage about a massive new oilfield and looser rules on electric cars almost drowned him out.

    “Appointing the world’s first climate security envoy is a welcome move, but approving Rosebank would only increase the climate threat level to communities in Britain and around the world.

    “There are so many elephants in the room, you’d think it’s a zoo. Burnham needs to start bridging the widening chasm between words and deeds on climate action.”

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/12/uk-ministers-no-plans-publish-climate-crisis-report

    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he's delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election - don't want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he’s delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election – don’t want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images)
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards

  • Climate change threatens ‘everything and everyone we love is at stake,’ Thunberg warns at Cop31

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    Activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the Cop31 UN Climate Summit in Antalya, Turkey, November 10, 2026

    CLIMATE change threatens everything and everyone we love, prominent activist Greta Thunberg warned today after arriving in Turkey for the second day of this year’s United Nations climate talks.

    The Conference of the Parties (Cop31) is taking place in in Antalya after a year of brutal heatwaves and concerns that governments don’t care about global warming.

    Climate change is “threatening everything,” Ms Thunberg told reporters outside the event. “Everything and everyone we love is at stake.

    “We should act to protect and benefit people, rather than constantly sacrificing the global majority and the very planet we are all living on for a fortunate few to keep making unimaginable profits and maintaining geopolitical power.”

    Ms Thunberg is expected to join the talks for a few days. She said structural changes were needed worldwide to deal with the climate crisis because current political and economic systems “have become incompatible with human nature.”

    The UN climate talks have long been criticised for making empty promises. Activists from 350.org, Climate Action Network and other campaign groups gathered outside the venue this morning, demanding that world leaders finally begin moving their countries away from fossil fuels.

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    Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/climate-change-threatens-everything-and-everyone-we-love-stake-thunberg-warns-cop31

    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London.
    Greenpeace activists display a billboard during a protest outside Shell headquarters on July 27, 2023 in London. (Photo: Handout/Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images)