BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 15, 2024 (ENS) – The year 2024 will break records as the planet’s warmest after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, warns the […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. […]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 3, 2021 (ENS) – After two days of speeches and announcements from world leaders, the focus today at the UN climate summit COP26 shifted to raising the funding needed to accomplish the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate. But as the day unfolded, protests disrupted finance sessions… […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, as the High Level Debate of the UN General Assembly began in New York. […]
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, January 26, 2021 (ENS) – As Earth’s climate heats up, a new international coalition is forming to tackle the impacts of global climate change, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday. Johnson was speaking at the virtual Netherlands-hosted Climate Adaptation Summit- the first global summit focused solely on adaptation and resilience. […]
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