(Recasts with additional details and background; changes headline) NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (Reuters) – India called on rich countries on Friday to live up to their promise of providing $100 billion in annual climate finance to developing nations and urged them to increase the amount for future years at next […]
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China is poised to take advantage of the global urgency to tackle climate change. It is the world’s dominant manufacturer and user of solar panels and wind turbines. It leads the world in producing energy from hydroelectric dams and is building more nuclear power plants than any other country. But […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the planet is heading toward irreversible “climate chaos” and urged global leaders at the upcoming climate summit in Egypt to put the world back on track to cut emissions, keep promises on climate financing and help developing countries speed […]
For parts of Europe, it’s as if summer just won’t end. Countries from Spain and France to as far north as Norway and Sweden are experiencing unseasonably warm temperatures for this time of year. The balmy conditions in western and central Europe follow a summer marked by intense heat waves, […]
One-third of the world’s most iconic glaciers have been “condemned to disappear” within 23 years, according to a new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The fate of these glaciers, which include those in Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Dolomites, is all but sure, UNESCO warned, […]
As world leaders assemble at the annual meeting known as COP27, join people from all over the world online to explore the possibilities for sustained progress at the New York Times Climate Forward event, which will be livestreamed from Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Across three days, Nov. 8 to 10, […]
Wealthy nations need to give as much as ten times current levels of funding to help developing countries adapt to climate change or face widespread suffering and displacement as well as increased conflict, the United Nations said in a report issued Thursday. If those developing nations can’t adjust to climate […]
The glaciers that cap Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania will be gone by 2050 Glaciers across the globe – including the last ones in Africa – will be unavoidably lost by 2050 due to climate change, the UN says in a report. Glaciers in a third of UN World Heritage sites […]