Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): The United Nations has said that emergency food aid for devastated flood-hit communities in Pakistan would run out in January after a funding appeal received only a third of its target. Pakistan was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer that put a third of the country under water, damaged two [&hellip...
BERLIN (AA) – The G-7 group of the world’s major economic powers has decided to establish an international climate club to tackle global warming, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced. “The Climate Club is not intended to be a G-7 initiative; rather, it is to be a global undertaking,” Scholz told a news conference in [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Canadian government has unveiled a new CAN$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) five-year climate action plan to help deal with storms, floods and forest fires. Canada has been hit with several disasters due to climate change. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced the new strategy while in Prince Edward Is...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN climate change conference COP27 “marks a small step towards climate justice,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday. At the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, nearly 200 countries made a historic deal to establish a “loss and damage” fund to help vulnerable countries hit hard by climate...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): A fraught UN COP27 summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts — and deep disappointment over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions. The two-week talks, which at times appeared to teeter on the brink of [&hellip...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): UN climate talks were extended by a day Friday in an effort to break deadlock as nations tussle over funding for developing countries battered by weather disasters and ambition on curbing global warming. Representatives from nearly 200 countries have gathered at the COP27 in Egypt for two weeks with the […]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – G20 countries must be at the forefront of action on emissions reduction, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has said. According to Inger Andersen, the longer these countries delay climate mitigation, the more costly it will be in both humanitarian and economic terms. Andersen...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Chants of “free them all” and “no climate justice without human rights” rang out between the halls of COP27 Saturday, in the largest protest since the UN climate summit began. Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sister, Sanaa Seif, who is at the summit campaigning for her br...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has apologized to world leaders for the US withdrawal from the landmark 2016 Paris climate agreement, emphasizing that his administration has worked to reinstitute US leadership to fight the global phenomena. “We immediately rejoined the Paris Agreement. We convened major climate summits and re...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AA) – Global carbon emissions (CO2) this year are forecast to remain at a record level of around 40.6 billion tons, up 1% from last year, and if current emission levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that global warming of 1.5 C (2.7 F) will be exceeded in nine years, the […]