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UN climate talks chief pushes for rapid draft deal
Dec 08, 2023 (AFP)
While UN climate talks rarely finish on time, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber has set the ambitious goal of wrapping up the conference in Dubai on schedule at 1...
A new 66 million-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today
Dec 08, 2023 (SPX)
The study was assembled over seven years by a consortium of more than 80 researchers from 16 nations. It appears today in the journal Science. "We have long kno...
Understanding climate tipping points
Dec 07, 2023 (ESA)
While climate records are being continuously broken, the cumulative impact of these changes could also cause fundamental parts of the Earth system to change dra...
'Ecocide': how war and climate change are often linked
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
At the UN climate talks in Dubai, war-torn Gaza, Yemen, Syria and Ukraine and have made their voices heard, complaining about the environmental impact of consta...
COP28 head presses nations to reach climate 'compromise'
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
It is rare for UN climate talks to end as scheduled but COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber set the ambitious goal of having a deal in place by 11:00 am (0700 GMT) ...
Iraq's marshes are dying, and a civilisation with them
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
Even at their centre in Chibayish, only a few expanses of the ancient waterways -- home to a Marsh Arab culture that goes back millennia -- survive, linked by c...
Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission
Dec 05, 2023 (ESA)
TRUTHS is set to provide the gold reference for climate measurements, thereby giving decision-makers more confidence in the data they use for climate action. ES...
Climate change by numbers
Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)
- Heat records tumbling - The decade up to 2020 was easily the hottest on record, with an average global temperature 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-ind...
World could breach 1.5C warming threshold in 7 years: study
Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)
Battle lines are being drawn over the future of fossil fuels at the UN climate summit in Dubai, with big polluters trying to see off calls for an agreement to p...
Warm Autumn signals record-breaking Winter ahead
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
This unprecedented heat has been attributed in part to the reemergence of the El Nino phenomenon after a seven-year hiatus, exacerbating the already rising temp...
Drought data shows an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale: UN
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
According to the report, 'Global Drought Snapshot,' launched by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at the outset of COP28 climate talks in the ...
Tens of thousands march for climate in Brussels
Dec 03, 2023 (AFP)
"No to climate change, yes to system change" and "We want a liveable and healthy planet" were among the slogans on posters and placards. The crowd braved low te...
World Bank chief says donors, recipients to control new climate fund's resources
Dec 01, 2023 (AFP)
"The reality is the Bank is currently not planning to play the role of allocating the money," he told an event at the UN's COP28 summit in Dubai. "That will be ...
UN climate talks open in oil-rich UAE with pressure for urgent action
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
The two-week-long negotiations in a vast exhibition venue in Dubai come at a pivotal moment, with emissions still climbing and the UN saying this year is likely...
German govt loses key climate court case
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
A Berlin court ordered the government to adopt an "immediate action programme" after failing to meet its own climate goals in the transport and building sectors...
Climate change worsened Chinese extreme heat and flooding event in 2020: study
Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)
Researchers said that warming created by human activity caused an increase in rain that summer by around 6.5 percent, and increased heat by around one degree Ce...
Kerry says US and China must 'win climate battle' together
Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)
"Without China and the United States aggressively moving forward to reduce emissions, we don't win this battle," the former secretary of state told reporters on...
Developing world needs 'radical' surge in climate investment: UN experts
Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)
The UN's high level expert group on climate finance last year said developing nations (excluding China) need to spend some $2.4 trillion a year on clean energy ...
Five things to watch for at COP28 climate talks
Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)
Environmental activists say there's no doubt anymore that urgent collective action is needed to preserve a livable planet. As the COP28 UN climate talks begin i...
Iraqis displaced by climate change fall into poverty
Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)
Drought chased the father of 10 out of the countryside, where he had been a herder and farmer, and into a life of unemployment and urban poverty. "We lost the l...
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