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The UN climate summit in November "must be the COP that consigns coal power to history" if the world is serious about achieving the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement, COP26 President Alok Sharma said last week. In response, the UK's Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) said that nuclear energy is the best low-carbon baseload replacement for coal, while US Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry highlighted the development of small modular reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/COP26-Presidents-calls-for-end-to-coal-power
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday called on heads of state to put their political differences to one side and make a collective effort to tackle global warming. Blinken moderated the first session of the Leaders Summit on Climate, which included Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Politics-should-not-detract-from-climate-policy,-s
US President Joe Biden yesterday signed executive orders to follow through on his promise to take aggressive action to tackle climate change and build on the executive actions that he took on his first day in office, including re-joining the Paris Agreement and the immediate review of "harmful rollbacks" of environmental standards under his predecessor Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a UN survey has found that almost two-thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 29 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Biden-sets-out-climate-action-plan
US President Biden used his Inauguration Day on 20 January to launch a domestic and international response to climate change that reversed many of the policies of his predecessor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-to-rejoin-the-paris-agreement-as-biden-announces-policy-changes-8472247