{"id":446994,"date":"2021-11-02T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446994"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:45:12","slug":"climate-finance-could-make-or-break-the-cop26-summit-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/climate-finance-could-make-or-break-the-cop26-summit-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate finance could make or break the COP26 summit. Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the U.N. climate conference, expect one theme to drown out the cacophony of pledges from countries and companies around the world: money.<\/p>\n<p>The COP26 summit, which began on Sunday in Glasgow, will attempt to complete the rules to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement &#8211; which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times &#8211; and secure more ambitious commitments from countries to meet its targets.<\/p>\n<p>Underpinning progress on both issues is money. Climate finance refers to money that richer nations &#8211; responsible for the bulk of the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet &#8211; give to poorer nations to help them cut their own emissions and adapt to the deadly storms, rising seas and droughts worsened by global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the U.N. climate conference, expect one theme to drown out the cacophony of pledges from countries and companies around the world: money. The COP26 summit, which began on Sunday in Glasgow, will attempt to complete the rules to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement &#8211; which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times &#8211; and secure more ambitious commitments from countries to meet its targets. Underpinning progress on both issues is money. Climate finance refers to money that richer nations &#8211; responsible for the bulk of the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet &#8211; give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}