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UN meeting urges 'highest political commitment' on climate change
Nov 17, 2016 (AFP)
Nearly 200 nations made an appeal Thursday for the "highest political commitment" to combat climate change, at a UN gathering overshadowed by Donald Trump's thr...
Scientists fear the worst under a Trump presidency
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
From the fight against climate change to dwindling budgets for research, the US scientific community fears the worst under Donald Trump, seen by many as the mos...
CEOs, leaders urge Trump to stand by climate pact
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
Nations, businesses and Washington's top diplomat urged president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday not to withdraw the US from the climate-rescue Paris Agreement...
African leaders in Morocco to unify stance on global warming
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
African leaders met in Morocco Wednesday on the sidelines of UN climate talks to agree a joint stance to fight global warming on the continent. "Africa is payin...
Ban 'optimistic' as leaders tackle climate change in Trump shadow
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
Donald Trump's election loomed large over climate talks on Tuesday where UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged nations to redouble their planet-rescue efforts and voiced h...
UN seeks more climate finance from rich nations
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
The UN urged rich nations Tuesday to ramp up financial aid to help poor countries shore up their defences against climate change. Finance is a hot-button topic ...
Record heat in 2016 but no drop in CO2 emissions: reports
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
The year 2016 is on track to be the hottest on record, the UN forecast Monday, while the World Bank calculated that 26 million people slip into poverty annually...
Kerry tells Trump that Americans want climate action
Nov 13, 2016 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea Sunday for America to maintain action on global warming, despite the election of climate-change denier...
Brave faces at climate talks despite Trump win
Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)
The host of global climate talks insisted Saturday that Donald Trump's election has not cast a cloud over the negotiations tasked with translating the landmark ...
New York braces for the looming threats of climate change
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
On calm days, waters innocently wash against the aging seawalls at Manhattan's southernmost park, but in decades to come they could inundate the island's lower ...
A warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
It is well-established in the scientific community that increases in atmospheric CO2 levels result in global warming, but the magnitude of the effect may vary d...
'No turning back,' says head of UN climate talks
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
The world expects the United States to uphold its commitments under the landmark Paris climate treaty, despite Donald Trump's vow to pull out of it, the incomin...
The Trump effect: Wary climate diplomats 'wait and see'
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
The world expects the United States to uphold commitments under the landmark Paris climate treaty despite Donald Trump's vow to pull out, the incoming head of i...
Spain vows to quickly ratify climate pact
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
Spain will quickly ratify a global pact aimed at taming climate change, a step which had been delayed by months of political paralysis, Environment Minister Isa...
Climate change ripples through life on Earth
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
Climate change is affecting most life on Earth, despite an average global temperature increase of just 1oC, say leading international scientists in a study publ...
Australia ratifies climate pact amid Trump fears
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
Australia ratified the Paris climate agreement on Thursday, amid fears US president-elect Donald Trump could follow through on his pledge to "cancel" the landma...
US climate pledges likely to go unmet: study
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
The United States will likely fail to meet its pledges under the landmark Paris climate pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, analysts said Thursday on the m...
Carbon-hungry plants impede growth rate of atmospheric CO2
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
New findings suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth's vegetation is grabbing more carbon fr...
UN climate talks to Trump: don't get left behind
Nov 09, 2016 (AFP)
Stunned but defiant participants at UN climate talks in Marrakesh said Wednesday that climate change denier Donald Trump can't derail the global shift to clean ...
Africa hit worst by extreme weather in 2015
Nov 08, 2016 (AFP)
Four of the 10 countries hammered hardest in 2015 by climate-boosted extreme weather are in Africa, according to a report released Tuesday at UN climate talks i...
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