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EU to seek stronger emissions action at COP31, document shows | The Climate Watch

The bloc plans to prioritise implementation of existing climate pledges and extend UN emissions talks, while ruling out new climate funding commitments at the summit. The European Union will use next month’s COP31 climate summit in Turkey to push for a package of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on turning existing national climate pledges into concrete action, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed. Governments have struggled to agree on stronger climate measures at recent United Nations climate talks, despite increasingly severe weather linked to climate change. Major emerging economies and fossil fuel producers have expressed concerns about the effects of tougher action on economic growth and development. At COP31 in November, the EU will advocate a “mitigation package” aimed at reducing emissions, according to the draft document. A central demand will be...

TUBITAK to fund international biodiversity research with up to €175,000 – Famagusta Gazette

Famagusta Gazette The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) will back international research projects aimed at halting biodiversity loss and understanding changes in ecosystems, with support of up to €175,000. The 2026 call, titled “New Ecosystems: Biodiversity, Socio-Ecological Consequences and Future Trajectories” (BiodivFuture), has opened for applications under the Horizon Europe programme’s European Biodiversity Partnership, BiodivERsA+, TUBITAK said. The partnership brings together 81 partners from 40 countries and aims to produce knowledge that can be put into practice to halt and reverse biodiversity decline. It seeks to put European nature on a path to recovery by 2030 and enable people to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The call covers the causes, impacts and consequences of current and future change in terrestrial, freshwater, marine and coa...

A Scientific Roadmap from TÜBA to COP31

TÜBA, in line with the 2035 Global Implementation Targets set by the Presidency of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31), prepared the Synthesis Report on COP31 Action Agenda Targets in both Turkish and English. The Synthesis Report on COP31 Action Agenda Targets, has put forward science-based policy recommendations for combating climate change. Addressing the topics of environment, energy, urban planning, industry, education, and finance under a single umbrella, the report not only analyzes the current situation but also offers actionable roadmaps and concrete recommendations for countries to achieve their 2035 targets. In his foreword to the ... , TÜBA President Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Şeker noted that hosting COP31 represents a historic responsibility for Türkiye and emphasized that TÜBA’s interdisciplinary work over many years in the fields of climate change, energy, food, sustain...