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Nations gathered in Busan, South Korea have a week to agree the world’s first treaty to curb plastic pollution, a gargantuan challenge given the...
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Talks to agree the world’s first treaty to curb plastic pollution cannot fail and must tackle both production and consumption, the UN’s environment chief...
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Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that it has been found in clouds, the deepest ocean trenches and even in human breastmilk.
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Rich countries’ promise of $300 billion a year in climate finance brought fury at talks in Baku from poor nations that found it too...
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The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried...
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Azerbaijan, an authoritarian oil and gas exporter, had come under heavy criticism for its handling of COP29.
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The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a...
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New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting “offsets” from developing nations were agreed at UN climate talks Saturday, in a move already...
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Negotiators were struggling to reach a deal Saturday at UN climate talks in Baku. If they fail, it would not be the first time....
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A staggering 281 aid workers have been killed around the world so far this year, making 2024 the deadliest year for humanitarians, the UN...