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Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
Oct 17, 2025 (AFP)
"No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air pollution, but it's the poorest am...
In China, climate litigation starts with the state
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
Instead of a movement led by activists and NGOs, in China climate litigation is dominated by state prosecutors seeking to enforce existing regulations, rather t...
'Good riddance': Fed clash over scrapping climate risk guidance; Nearly 1 billion people exposed to climate shocks: UN
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
"No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air pollution, but it's the poorest am...
Climate advisers warn UK to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
Britain is among many countries experiencing record-breaking temperatures this year, with four heatwaves coming alongside below-average rainfall in some areas a...
Judge 'reluctantly' tosses youth case challenging Trump climate policies
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
Judge Dana Christensen said that while the plaintiffs had presented "overwhelming" evidence that the government's actions would worsen climate change and harm t...
Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30
Oct 14, 2025 (AFP)
However, veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a strong agribusiness lobby in congress that has tried to weaken environmental laws, and the president ...
Brazil hopes Amazon summit can unite world for climate action
Oct 13, 2025 (AFP)
It faces tough odds, with a hostile United States unlikely to show up, waning political appetite for climate action, and eye-watering prices for accommodation t...
Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?
Oct 13, 2025 (AFP)
The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all, but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has no single theme ...
Brazil 'frustrated' with delays in COP climate commitments
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
The targets, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), must be reviewed every five years. Yet few countries have delivered their updated pledges for ...
Bonaire residents take Netherlands to court over climate
Oct 07, 2025 (AFP)
Bonaire is one of the Dutch territories worst-hit by the climate crisis, according to Greenpeace, and through the courts they are demanding that the Dutch gover...
Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds
Oct 06, 2025 (AFP)
Using a national drug database, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard analyzed global warming pollution from three types of inhal...
Is the EU on the retreat on climate?
Sep 25, 2025 (AFP)
But the bloc's global leadership on green matters is faltering as internal divisions on climate paired with a push to boost defence and industry stall new commi...
Low bar, high hopes: China unveils new climate goals
Sep 25, 2025 (AFP)
Here's what to know: - Why it matters - China is the world's second biggest economy, and since 2006, the largest polluter, now accounting for nearly 30 percent ...
Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
Between October 1, 2024 and August 31 this year, precipitation in Turkey averaged at 401.1 millimetres (15.8 inches) compared to 548.5 mm between 1991 and 2020,...
'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
President Donald Trump used his UN comeback address Tuesday to champion fossil fuels and deride green technologies on the eve of a climate summit called by Secr...
What to look for in China and Europe's climate plans
Sep 18, 2025 (AFP)
China is the world's largest polluter and strong emissions cuts would have a major impact on warming, while the EU is under pressure to show it remains a global...
Wopke Hoekstra, driving EU climate policy as bloc hits brakes
Sep 18, 2025 (AFP)
The 49-year-old commissioner for climate will speak for the 27-nation bloc at November's COP30 UN conference in Brazil. It is not yet clear what his message wil...
'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Sep 16, 2025 (AFP)
Lighthiser v Trump is emblematic of a growing global trend of legal action as a tool to push action on planetary warming amid political inertia or outright host...
EU 'positive' on striking 2040 climate target deal before COP30
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
Wopke Hoekstra, the European Commissioner for Climate, told AFP there was a "significant possibility" that a deal would be finalised at a meeting of EU environm...
Drought hit over half of Europe in mid-August: EU data
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
The data showed 52 percent of the region was affected -- more for that period than in any year since data collection began in 2012. The mid-August drought follo...
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