NAIROBI: An initiative to boost Africa's carbon credit production 19-fold by 2030 drew hundreds of millions of dollars of pledges on Monday as Kenyan President William Ruto opened the continent's first climate summit. In one of the most anticipated deals, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed
Paris: Capping global warming at liveable levels will be impossible without massively scaling up the extraction of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the first global assessment of CO2 removal warned Thursday. The persistent failure to draw down greenhouse gas emissions -- nearly 60 billion tonnes
London: Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could attend the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh if important domestic policy decisions are resolved. It follows controversy after former UK PM Boris Johnson suggested that he would take part in the event — which runs from Nov.