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President Francois Hollande on Wednesday finalised ratification of the Paris climate accord reached in December 2015, making France the first industrialised country to do so.
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Paris -
Former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius will step down as president of COP21, the UN's climate forum, after being appointed head of France's constitutional court, according to a resignation letter seen by AFP.
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New York -
Calling the Paris climate deal "a health insurance policy for the planet," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged governments to waste no time in delivering on their commitments to fight global warming.
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Bejing -
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama, the leaders of the world's two biggest polluters, pledged to work together to implement the climate deal adopted in Paris in a phone call Monday, Beijing's foreign ministry said.
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Extreme high tides have turned streets into canal-like swamps in the Florida Keys, with armies of mosquitoes and the stench of stagnating water filling the air, and residents worried rising sea levels will put a damper on property values in the island ...
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Vatican City -
Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the UN climate accord reached in Paris but warned the key now lay in its implementation, especially in help for the poor.
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After a champagne moment in Paris, where ministers from around the world crafted a pact to fight perilous climate change, comes the hard part.
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Had nature been left to take its course much of the Netherlands would be a muddy swamp and the tiny coastal nation would never have risen to be the eurozone's fifth largest economy.
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A 195-nation wrangle that ended Saturday with a historic Paris pact to curb global warming had to be the anti-Copenhagen: as flawlessly organised as the 2009 summit was chaotic, as much a success as the other was a traumatising blow for climate diploma...
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Decades of diplomatic efforts to tackle climate change culminated in Paris Saturday with a common vision for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and throwing a lifeline to vulnerable countries.
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Here are 10 of the best quotes from the 13-day UN climate conference in Paris, which sealed a historic pact on Saturday to curb global warming:- Cooking up history -China's chief climate negotiator, Su Wei, serves up a culinary analogy for Paris succes...
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They erupted into cheers, broke into tears, took selfies and quoted great figures of history after the gavel came down in Paris on Saturday, launching the quest to save mankind from global warming.
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Climate scientists Saturday welcomed a pact to battle global warming as a major political advance, but warned of a gaping hole -- the lack of a detailed roadmap for cutting greenhouse gases that cause the problem.
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Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved Saturday a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution.
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The G77 bloc of 134 developing nations, including China, gave the nod Saturday for a hard-fought UN climate rescue pact due to be presented for adoption in Paris."We are united, all together.
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As temperatures rise there is less of it or sometimes even none at all -- global warming is forcing ski areas to think about the once unthinkable, a future without snow.
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Le Bourget -
French hosts of UN talks submitted to cheers and applause Saturday a proposed 195-nation accord to defeat global warming, which threatens mankind but requires an energy revolution.
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From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
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A near three decade-long effort to rein in dangerous planetary warming is set to culminate Saturday in the first-ever universal pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions.The road has been long.
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They have been tasked with saving humanity but, as UN climate talks went into much-feared overtime on Friday, many exhausted envoys could barely stay awake.
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World powers must still make tough decisions to agree a global climate pact that will head off the threat of global warming, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday."We had a very constructive meeting.
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Sleep-starved envoys tasked with staving off catastrophic climate change are on track to seal a historic accord, the French hosts of UN talks said Friday although the biggest pitfalls were yet to be cleared.
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Paris -
UN climate talks in Paris tasked with beating back the threat of global warming are scheduled to conclude on Friday.
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At the Paris climate talks, the planet's smallest nations have found their voice amid the nearly 200 countries attending COP21. While most nations are thinking of global warming in economic terms, small island nations picture a map without them.
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Sleep-starved envoys tasked with saving humanity from catastrophic climate change zeroed in early Friday on a historic Paris accord, battling through a second all-night session of UN talks in search of a solution.
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Paris -
French President Francois Hollande said Thursday there were "still difficulties" in the climate talks in Paris, especially on financing. "There are still difficulties, we are aware of them, on financing...
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Bejing -
Beijing's first ever red alert for smog was lifted Thursday, as blue skies and sunshine replaced the thick haze that covered the city for days.
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Karachi -
Karachi, 2050: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat.
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On threadbare running shoes, beaten bikes and solar-powered rickshaws, climate campaigners with a taste for adventure have converged on Paris after epic journeys powered by dreams of saving mankind.
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Weary ministers were locked Thursday in marathon UN talks aimed at braking the juggernaut of climate change, facing decisions on deal-breaking rows as a deadline loomed just over 24 hours away.
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Spring tree planting was started in the DPRK on March 4, 2015, Tree Planting Day, the significant day when President Kim Il Sung kindled the first torch for the movement for planting trees. NORTH KOREA TODAY (DPRK NEWS CHANNEL)
Rising sea levels will eventually wipe islands like Kiribati off the maps. Human XXL
"Global efforts on climate change are falling short – and low-lying island nations such as mine are already paying the earliest costs of what is fast becoming a global crisis," said Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak in September 2013. Devra Berkowitz/United Nations
Sensors: The next frontier for pollution reduction. © Jacobs School of Engineering / UC San Diego
Thousands of marchers rallied in Bangladesh, with many of the world's animals a feature attraction bringing attention to the plight of many species. YouTube
Nanyuki, Laikipia, Kenya. Twitter
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