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New emissions pledges barely affect global heating: UN
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
Nations have presented a range of new and enhanced commitments -- including a vow by India to be carbon neutral by 2070 -- in recent weeks as the UN climate sum...
Pelosi, AOC tell COP26 'America is back' on climate
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The 20-strong delegation at the UN climate talks included the chairs of key committees in the US House of Representatives, along with junior members such as Ale...
Climate scientists fear tipping points
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The real disaster scenario begins with the triggering of invisible climate tripwires known as tipping points. "Climate tipping points are a game-changing risk -...
Fears of greenwashing from Paris climate deal architect
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change called for capping global warming at well below 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, and ideally closer ...
Good COP, bad COP: UN climate meet praised and panned
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
A dizzying blitz of pledges to curb methane emissions, phase out coal-fired power, stop overseas fossil fuel financing, and halt deforestation would appear to h...
Glasgow braces for climate protests on global day of action
Nov 06, 2021 (AFP)
From Paris to Sydney, Nairobi to Seoul, more than 200 events are planned worldwide to demand immediate action for communities already affected by climate change...
Protesters demand climate action in global rally
Nov 06, 2021 (AFP)
Dozens of events were planned worldwide to demand cuts in fossil fuel use and immediate help for communities already affected by climate change, particularly in...
Study: Climate change makes allergies worse, doesn't increase diagnoses
Nov 05, 2021 (UPI)
The percentage of children in the Los Angeles area with allergies to dust mites, cat, dog, cockroach, tree pollen, grass pollen and weed pollen remained relativ...
New Zealand's Ardern says Glasgow 'make or break' for climate
Nov 05, 2021 (AFP)
The New Zealand leader called for the UN-brokered talks to result in immediate and meaningful action, adding "we're definitely at a point now where it's moved b...
'It kills me inside': Activists sound alarm on climate anxiety
Nov 05, 2021 (AFP)
As thousands of delegates converged at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss ways to tackle the environmental emergency, AFP interviewed three youth activists ...
COP26 sees push to speed up carbon-cutting vows
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
Currently, the nearly 200 nations that submitted voluntary emissions reduction schemes under the 2015 Paris Agreement have agreed to update those plans every fi...
Earth's orbit affects millennial climate variability
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
For the period before the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, when global glaciations were less pronounced but more frequent, scientists had been unable to identify the...
Moscow, Beijing reject Biden criticism on climate
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
"We disagree," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about Biden's accusation that China and Russia were failing to show leadership on clima...
Green groups decry COP26 'shambles' as observers locked out
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
Under the United Nations-led process to implement the goals of the Paris Agreement, civil society groups are allowed to attend annual talks as observers. While ...
UK PM 'cautiously optimistic' about COP climate deal
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
Johnson said he was "cautiously optimistic" after the summit in Glasgow adopted new promises on deforestation, methane emissions and cash for poorer countries t...
Biden says China, Russia failed to lead at climate summit
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking at the UN summit aimed at forging an ambitious new climate agreement, Biden called his own presence and promises proof that "America is back" after the...
Nearly 30,000 facing 'climate change famine' in Madagascar: UN
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
The island nation off southeastern Africa has been hit by its worst drought in four decades, brought on by global warming. The UN's World Food Programme said th...
World leaders urged to 'save humanity' at climate summit
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
In a video message sent to the conference, she added her voice to a succession of world leaders stressing the urgency of the crisis. But as the summit got under...
Leaders can 'make or break hope' for climate salvation
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
Will COP26, in other words, more closely resemble the Danish diplomatic debacle of 2009, or the triumph that six years later led to the first climate treaty in ...
US to galvanize global 'ambition' on climate: officials
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
Special climate envoy John Kerry told reporters ahead of Biden's arrival on Monday at the COP26 summit that the aim is "to leave Glasgow having raised global am...
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