DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 12, 2023 (ENS) – It was nearly midnight on Tuesday, December 12 when all but the few tired delegates intimately involved in the high-stakes international climate talks left the COP28 conference rooms at Expo City, Dubai. The closed-door talks would continue until 3 am Wednesday and then pause for consideration of the issues, the COP28 Presidency told negotiators. […]
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. […]
WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded some advances for the environment. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 20, 2022 (ENS) – The UN Climate Change Conference COP27 closed today in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. […]
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