Apr 20 2024
DUBAI: A lively debate on transforming energy in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and how the developed world should do more to aid this transition, took place recently as part of Expo 2020’s Climate and Biodiversity Week. The ministerial-level event […]
DUBAI: The People’s Promise for Climate Impact, a two-day event as part of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Climate and Biodiversity Week, ended with young change-makers and climate leaders sending powerful messages to policy-makers set to gather in Glasgow, UK, for the 26th United Nations […]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for commitment to restoring the planet, and to making peace with nature, in his message to mark International Mother Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April. This year’s observation is taking place as the planet […]
WASHINGTON – World Bank Group announced a new Climate Change Action Plan which will increase climate finance, focus on climate results and impact, improve and expand climate diagnostics and reduce emissions and climate vulnerabilities in key systems. “I am pleased […]
A year of turbulence, of tragedy, a year that tested resolve and grit, that pushed nations and their people to take a knee before its overwhelming onslaught. The buckling challenges of pandemic aside, the world has been lashed with natural […]
Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said Monday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) analysis of surface and air temperatures found that […]
New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic move that critics said needed to be backed with greater actions to reduce emissions. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern […]
Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in storm-battered parts of the Philippines Wednesday as the third typhoon in as many weeks barrelled towards the country. Vamco was expected to graze Catanduanes Island — which was devastated by Typhoon […]
The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change. The move, long threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump and triggered by his administration a year […]
‘Is COVID-19 infectious?’ California Senator and Dem. VP-nominee, Kamala Harris, posed to POTUS-elected Supreme Court Justice-nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. ‘”I think yes, I do accept that COVID-19 is infectious,” she responded. ‘Does smoking cause cancer?’ pressed Harris, in a […]
