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Von der Leyen backs Dutch FM Hoekstra for EU climate post
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
The commission president announced that she had interviewed Hoekstra and would now propose that EU member states and the European Parliament formally approve th...
US Republican positions on climate change shock environmentalists
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
The subject of climate change prompted one of the most revealing exchanges of the debate, and was broached only 20 minutes into the clash by moderators who aske...
Global warming predicted to cost Australia billions
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
Working conditions will become so difficult in the already sun-kissed and desert-scarred continent that officials predict a drop in output of between Aus$135 bi...
Montana court rules for young people in landmark US climate trial
Aug 14, 2023 (AFP)
District Court Judge Kathy Seeley said a state law preventing agencies from considering the impacts of greenhouse gases when issuing permits for fossil fuel dev...
Biden fights for political gain a year after ambitious climate law
Aug 13, 2023 (AFP)
The hugely ambitious project is aimed at speeding America's transition to clean energy, rebuilding its industrial might and increasing social justice. On August...
Climate activists block Rhine traffic in Basel
Aug 11, 2023 (AFP)
A dozen activists gathered around 6:00 am (0400 GMT) at the Dreirosen Bridge in the northern Swiss city to disrupt traffic on the Rhine, through which about a t...
NASA study reveals compounding climate risks at two degrees of warming
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers found that more than a quarter of the world's population could experience an additional month of severe heat stress each year compared to the mi...
Massive North Atlantic cooling event disrupted early human occupation in Europe
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The study published by an international group of scientists from the UK, South Korea and Spain presents observational and modelling evidence documenting that un...
Despite scorching July, 1.5C Paris climate limit not yet reached
Aug 10, 2023 (AFP)
The Paris Agreement set the ambitious target of limiting the world to a temperature increase of 1.5C, but last month's blistering heat does not mean this thresh...
N.Zealand, BlackRock to create climate investment fund
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
The fund is to seek NZ$2 billion (US$1.2 billion) from state entities and private-sector investors including pension funds, the government and US-based BlackRoc...
Top fundraiser offers defense of climate protests; Pope tells youths to tackle crisis
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
Today, she has changed her approach: the American activist is in charge of a fund that exclusively finances groups engaging in civil disobedience. It's the "mos...
Pope tells youths to tackle climate crisis, poverty
Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)
The 86-year-old Francis has made the protection of the environment a cornerstone of his pontificate, noting in his landmark 2015 "Laudato Si" (Praised Be) encyc...
UN vows more 'transparency' of climate talks attendance
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
As registration opened this week for this year's COP28 climate talks, to be held in oil-rich United Arab Emirates, the United Nations body that oversees the cli...
China denies obstructing G20 climate negotiations
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Last week's negotiations in India -- held ahead of this year's COP28 climate talks in Dubai -- failed to reach a consensus on tripling renewable energy use. Fre...
UAE vows to allow 'peaceful' assembly of climate activists at COP28
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
The oil-rich UAE, set to host COP28 from November to December in the business hub of Dubai, requires official permission for protests but effectively bans demon...
Asset managers not on track for climate target: report
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
InfluenceMap research programme FinanceMap studied the portfolios of the world's top 45 asset managers including giants Blackrock and Vanguard, which have $72 t...
Indonesia sends emergency aid to Papua as drought kills 6
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
Disaster officials blamed the El Nino weather phenomenon generally associated with a rise in global temperatures for the drought and extreme cold weather that h...
Innovative plan combines asteroid and sunshade to tackle climate change
Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)
Shielding Earth from a portion of the sun's light, known as a solar shield, is a relatively simple way to decrease global temperatures. This isn't the first tim...
Biden calls climate change an 'existential threat'
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
"I don't think anybody can deny the impact of climate change anymore," Biden said at the White House, where he held a video conference with the mayors of heat-b...
G20 environment chiefs ready fresh bid for climate deals
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
Environment chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies -- constituting more than 80 percent of both global GDP and CO2 emissions -- are focusing on critical to...
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