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Turkey to ratify Paris climate agreement, Erdogan tells UN
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
Erdogan's announcement at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly followed a year of violent weather events in Turkey -- including wildfires and flash ...
Dutch face more serious climate threat than first thought: king
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
"Climate change is without a doubt the most pressing problem," the king said in his annual speech opening parliament that is written by the prime minister and h...
Biden praised after pledging to double US climate finance contribution
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
Experts said the announcement would take the American contribution to the commitment, made by developed countries ahead of the 2015 Paris agreement, to approxim...
Biden to announce 'good news' on $100 billion UN climate fund
Sep 20, 2021 (AFP)
Biden, who will make his first speech to the world body as the American leader on Tuesday, was represented by his climate envoy John Kerry at the meeting conven...
Climate shocks forced over 100,000 to flee home in Burundi: charity
Sep 19, 2021 (AFP)
It said climate shocks -- not conflict -- were now the main cause of internal displacement in the landlocked East African country, which has a largely rural pop...
Rich nations make 'disappointing' progress in climate finance: OECD
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
Developing countries, which bear the greatest impact from climate change, received $79.6 billion in 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop...
World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming: UN chief
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
His comments come as a United Nations report on global emissions pledges found instead of the reductions needed to avoid the worst effects of climate change, th...
Desolate villages face famine in Madagascar drought
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
Across Madagascar's vast southern tip, drought has transformed fields into dust bowls. More than one million people face famine. Across tens of thousands of acr...
Southern EU leaders target climate change at Greek summit
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
Greek government spokesman Yiannis Economou said the one-day meeting, with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen in attendance, will address issues "jeopardising safety...
Southern EU leaders vow to meet Paris climate targets
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
"Now, more than ever, (it is) necessary to tackle the escalating climate and environmental crisis and create a safe, secure prosperous, fair and sustainable fut...
1.5 C warming limit 'impossible' without major action: UN
Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)
The United in Science 2021 report, published by a range of UN agencies and scientific partners just weeks before the COP26 climate summit, said climate change a...
Report: Fossil fuel industry funds research to weaken climate change messaging
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
The report found that energy companies have used a similar strategy to tobacco companies in prior decades -- to protect their interests by becoming a primary fu...
Young German activists stage hunger strike for climate
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
More than two weeks later, some look pale and emaciated. One collapsed on Tuesday. Another broke down in tears as medics performed a daily check of their weight...
World leaders will hold closed-door climate meet at UN
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
The roundtable comes less than six weeks before a major United Nations climate meeting, COP26, in Glasgow, aimed at ensuring the world meets its goal of holding...
Young activists take German states to court over climate
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
The plaintiffs are basing their case on a sensational verdict by Germany's constitutional court in April which found that Germany's plans to curb CO2 emissions ...
Western US faces future of prolonged drought even with stringent emissions control
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
The western United States is headed for prolonged drought conditions whether greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb or are aggressively reined in, according...
UN climate summit to be Scotland's biggest policing operation
Sep 09, 2021 (AFP)
Bernard Higgins said the 12-day COP26 event later this year, and expected environmental mass protests alongside, made it a "very complex and challenging operati...
Samoa PM issues climate warning ahead of crunch UN talks
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, who took office as Samoa's first female prime minister in late July, gave a stark assessment of the Pacific's prospects if efforts to tack...
UN rejects call to delay COP26 climate summit
Sep 07, 2021 (AFP)
"For now, no changes are planned, but we understand the concerns," UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said of the UN Climate Change Conference set to kick off Octob...
Climate change expected to intensify summertime droughts across Europe
Sep 07, 2021 (UPI)
Over the last few decades, intense droughts have stressed water resources across the planet. Now, new findings -- published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in ...
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