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Over 500,000 Afghans displaced due to climate disasters in 2024: IOM
Feb 27, 2025 (AFP)
"Nearly 9 million individuals were impacted by climate hazards in the last 12 months, with over 500,000 displaced by floods, drought, and other disasters," acco...
Britons advised to cut meat, air travel to reach net zero targets
Feb 26, 2025 (AFP)
The UK's 2008 Climate Change Act requires the government to propose regular, legally binding milestones on the way to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emission...
BP to up oil and gas output, slash clean energy spend in overhaul
Feb 26, 2025 (AFP)
The major strategy overhaul comes after a difficult trading year for BP, which is under pressure from investors to boost its share price, and as countries look ...
Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain
Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)
Decades of work and millions of dollars have been ploughed into easing endless drought in the oil-rich UAE, whose mainly expatriate population is soaring undete...
US shuns climate science meeting as UN warns 'time is not on our side'
Feb 24, 2025 (AFP)
US officials declined to comment last week on reports that America's delegation had been pulled from the UN talks in Hangzhou. But a source at the meeting, whic...
Nations at odds over major UN climate science report
Feb 23, 2025 (AFP)
The meeting in the Chinese city of Hangzhou comes on the heels of the hottest year on record and rising alarm over the pace of warming. Donald Trump's withdrawa...
Sweden's Supreme Court throws out Thunberg lawsuit as Trump admin faces first challenges
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
The first of its kind in the Scandinavian country, the case demanded that Sweden take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to within the limits of what is ...
Little Scope for Large-Scale Climate Plantations Without Breaching Planetary Boundaries
Feb 18, 2025 (SPX)
The research is based on the planetary boundaries framework, a concept introduced in 2009 under the leadership of PIK Director Johan Rockstrom. This framework i...
'Fatal mistake': Activists say climate ignored in German polls
Feb 14, 2025 (AFP)
Thousands gathered in Berlin waving banners that read "vote for climate justice". Other demonstrations also took place across the country. "The topic of climate...
Tibetan tree rings link climate stress to Chinese dynastic turmoil: study
Feb 11, 2025 (AFP)
Last year was the hottest on record both globally and in China, with extreme weather events wreaking havoc worldwide and natural disasters causing $310 billion ...
Corruption threatens climate action, watchdog warns; World may have entered era of 1.5C warming, scientists say
Feb 11, 2025 (AFP)
Its "Corruption Perceptions Index" for 2024 showed that many countries involved in climate action -- either as hosts of the United Nations climate summits or be...
Fighting global warming in nations' self-interest: UN climate chief
Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)
Speaking at a university in Brazil's capital, Simon Stiell said global heating was "dangerously high," but that real progress had been made since the landmark P...
Indonesia backs climate deals after envoy's Paris skepticism
Feb 06, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia's special envoy for climate change and energy, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, last week questioned why his country should continue participating in the deal ...
Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
Feb 05, 2025 (AFP)
Led by renowned if dissenting climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal "Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development" and con...
Germany fears Russia link in car vandalism blamed on climate activists
Feb 05, 2025 (AFP)
Prosecutors said Wednesday they were probing more than 100 incidents in which construction foam was used to block exhaust pipes, in a campaign that infuriated t...
Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
Feb 04, 2025 (AFP)
Led by renowned climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal "Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development" and concludes that Ea...
UK prosecutors defend jail terms of environmental activists
Jan 30, 2025 (AFP)
The activists with the Just Stop Oil (JSO) group last year received prison terms of between 15 months and five years for several stunts, including throwing soup...
Climate activists appeal long UK jail terms for 'peaceful protest'
Jan 29, 2025 (AFP)
"Just Stop Oil supporters in prison are political prisoners," the group claimed, as two days of hearings began at London's Court of Appeal, closely watched amid...
UN confirms US demand to withdrawal from Paris climate deal
Jan 28, 2025 (AFP)
On his first day back in the White House, Trump announced the United States would leave the accord, which is managed by the UN climate change body. It brings to...
PNG calls Trump decision on climate pact 'morally wrong'
Jan 26, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister James Marape said he was "greatly concerned" for his country and other Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas and severe weather patter...
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