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, 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): 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...
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – The UN climate summit COP27 kicked off Sunday in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Taking place from Nov. 6-18, more than 40,000 participants have been registered for this year’s summit to discuss ways to lessen the negative impacts of climate change and adapting to its repercussions. […...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Leaders of a divided world meet in Egypt on Monday tasked with taming the terrifying juggernaut of global warming as they face gale-force geopolitical crosswinds, including the war in Ukraine and economic turmoil. Expectations are high from a world justifiably anxious about its climate-addled future as deadly floods, heat w...
Shell and ExxonMobil are selling their California wells, despite oil selling at high prices, ProPublica reports. Despite record high profits some of the world’s largest oil companies are selling assets and beginning to pull out of the state. Experts say this is because despite the strong cash flow in the short term, producers have more [&hell...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Pakistan government has announced compensation for the families of those killed and injured during the recent devastating floods as relief and reconstruction activities continue in the South Asian country. Speaking at a high-level meeting on Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the federal government wil...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): About 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others have been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season. Floods caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure have affected vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country sparking fears they could worsen...
DADU, Pakistan (AA) – Flood victims returning to villages in Pakistan’s south are finding themselves having to rebuild their homes after they were flattened by last month’s devastating floods that submerged one-third of the country. Allah Bachayo Phanwar stands as a stark example. Located on the outskirts of Dadu district in ...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): The European Union’s energy commissioner has hailed a “long-term strategic partnership” with Algeria as the bloc turns to Africa’s biggest gas exporter to fill a gap left by Russian supplies. “As the relationship with Russia, so far EU’s biggest gas supplier, is irreversibly broken, w...
