United Nations: From extreme floods like those in Pakistan to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost billions this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a Geneva-based UN agency said.
Mexico City: Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Brussels: The European Union struck a political deal to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement, a world-first scheme aiming to support European industries as they decarbonise.
Washington D.C.: United States (US) President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron sat down for the centerpiece talks of a pomp-filled French state visit, with the two leaders eager to talk through the war in Ukraine, concerns about China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific
Geneva: Climate change will end up killing people by fuelling infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said.
Sharm El Sheikh: President Joe Biden vowed at UN climate talks that the United States was on track to slash its carbon emissions, urging all nations to ramp up their own efforts to avert catastrophic global warming.
Beijing: China’s foreign ministry said that climate change diplomacy between China and the United States cannot be separated from broader political tensions between the two sides, and Washington must take responsibility for the breakdown in talks.
Chicago: The United States (US) and other developed countries should assume the majority of the financial burden in addressing climate change issues resulting from global warming. United States President Joe Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry told reporters during a press briefing that the majority of developing
Tokyo: A warming climate could bring viruses in the Arctic into contact with new environments and hosts, increasing the risk of “viral spillover”, according to research published on Thursday. Viruses need hosts like humans, animals, plants or fungi to replicate and spread, and occasionally they can
