LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Shell Petroleum has agreed to pay €15 million ($15.9 million) as settlement to Nigeria over oil pipeline leaks in the country’s Niger Delta in the 2000s. In a statement on Friday, Shell said it had negotiated the settlement for the benefit of the Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo communities in […]
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 […]
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...
