PARIS: Wealthy nations have finalised an overdue $100-billion climate finance pledge to developing countries and created a fund for biodiversity and the protection of forests, France's president said on Friday. President Emmanuel Macron was speaking at a final panel of a summit in Paris where some
PARIS: Climate change driven by rich countries will cause mortality among poor nations to skyrocket, Nobel prize winning economist Esther Duflo warned in an interview, calling for a global tax. The world has already warmed an average of nearly 1.2C since the mid-1800s, according to a
Paris: French authorities are expected shortly to issue a decree shutting down a climate activist group after demonstrators clashed with police over a controversial irrigation project that left one man in a coma. Government spokesman Olivier Veran accused the Uprisings of the Earth (SLT) coalition of
Vatican City: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has said that the United States and China - the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - must create a partnership to tackle climate change without allowing their differences on other issues get in the way. Kerry spoke to
LONDON: With increasing concerns about the global climate and economic crisis, world leaders have once again gathered to join hands and discuss appropriate measures to improve the global financial and environmental situation. The first round of negotiations for a global financial agreement will start in Paris
BERLIN: The head of the United Nations launched a tirade against fossil fuel companies, accusing them of betraying future generations and undermining efforts to phase out a product he called “incompatible with human survival.” Secretary-General António Guterres also dismissed suggestions by some oil executives — including
New York: Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned on Thursday in a sweeping climate science update. From 2013 to 2022, "human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2
Ontario: Millions of people in the Midwest of the United States are currently facing a serious problem with their air quality. This is because smoke from wildfires in eastern Canada has traveled across the region, causing hazy skies and poor air conditions. The smoke has
Geneva: The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the UN weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related
New York: A searing heat wave in parts of southern Asia in April this year was made at least 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a rapid study by international scientists released Wednesday. Sizzling temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees