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 […]
LUSAKA, Zambia (AA) – Zambia has made a clarion call to the UN climate change conference COP27 for developed countries to pledge $100 billion in annual financing to beat climate change in Africa. “As Chair of the African group of negotiators here at the conference, we feel that we have to address the key issues […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): The United Nations has unveiled a five-year plan to build a global early warning system for deadly extreme weather events amplified by climate change. The price tag — a relatively modest $3.1 billion– is a small price to pay for proven methods that can save millions of lives, UN chief […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): West African nations have vowed to protect 30 percent of their land and seas by 2030. It constitutes a cornerstone pledge of high-stakes biodiversity talks scheduled in Canada next month. The announcement was made at UN climate talks in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where dozens of world [&helli...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – The UN Secretary General has urged developed and emerging countries to form a Climate Solidarity Pact to reduce emissions this decade in line with the 1.5-degree target. Speaking at the start of the high-level COP27 Climate Implementation Summit on Monday, Antonio Guterres said that humanity has a choice to ...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN’s COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice. However, it did not take long for Egypt’s stiff security measures to shatter his dreams. According to rights groups, Egypt has stifled protest...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the United States, China and other wealthy non-European nations to pay their fair share to help developing countries deal with climate change. “We need the United States and China to step up” on emissions cuts and financial aid, Macron told French and African ...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Simon Stiell, the UN’s climate change executive secretary, has said he would not be a “custodian of backsliding” on the goal of slashing greenhouse emissions 45 percent by 2030 to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th-century levels. “We will be holding people to account...
