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COP29 will focus on climate finance for developing countries

World

COP29 opens with Trump climate withdrawal looming

The COP29 climate talks open Monday in Azerbaijan, under the long shadow cast by the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to row...

AFPNovember 11, 2024

'Wake-up call': The last decade has been the hottest, deepening climate choas including floods in Valencia, Spain this month

World

Paris agreement climate goals ‘in great peril’, warns UN

The Paris climate agreement's goals "are in great peril" and 2024 is on track to break new temperature records.

AFPNovember 11, 2024

Pakistan's second biggest city Lahore recently recorded air pollution at a level 40 times level deemed acceptable by the WHO

World

Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health

Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the...

AFPNovember 8, 2024

Baard Gundersen at the wheel of his electric BMW iX in Baerum, Oslo

World

Norway speeds ahead of EU in race for fossil-free roads

Despite being a major oil and gas producer, Norway has adopted the most ambitious electric vehicle (EV) objective in the world.

AFPNovember 5, 2024

This year is likely to be the hottest in human history, according to EU climate monitor Copernicus

World

Nations gather for crunch climate talks in shadow of US vote

World leaders kick off UN climate talks next week, days after a knife edge US election that could send shockwaves through global efforts to...

AFPNovember 3, 2024

Despite a historic pledge made at the COP28 climate summit, countries are still planning to expand fossil fuel production

World

‘Waiting in vain’: year on from pledge, world clings to fossil fuels

One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that promise...

AFPOctober 31, 2024

The UN's COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan will not include delegates from Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea to boycott ‘waste of time’ UN climate summit

Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a boycott of next month’s UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a “waste of time” full...

AFPOctober 30, 2024

Burning of fossil fuels has largely driven a surge in greenhouse gas pollution

World

Carbon cuts ‘miles short’ of 2030 goal: UN

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, the UN warned on Monday, with countries falling “miles short” of what...

AFPOctober 28, 2024