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Electric mobility key to long-term fight against air pollution: UNEP chiefA top UN official stresses electric mobility and mandatory vehicle emissions testing for long-term air pollution solutions. India's plan to...- Temperatures likely to remain at record levels in 2026-2030: UNGlobal average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels this year and for the next four years afterwards, the United Na...
- India abstains on UNGA resolution on ICJ climate opinionIndia abstained from a UN General Assembly resolution on climate change obligations, citing concerns it undermined the UN Framework Convent...
- France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050France has unveiled a groundbreaking roadmap to end its reliance on fossil fuels. Coal use will cease by 2030, followed by oil in 2045 and ...
- India submits its revised targets for 2031-35 to the UN's climate change bodyThe development comes after the Cabinet in March approved the nationally determined contributions (NDC) -- the non-binding, voluntary clima...
- Four candidates for UN secretary-general audition this week. That's far fewer than in 2016Four candidates are vying to become the next United Nations Secretary-General. This selection process unfolds in a world marked by deep div...
- Amid West Asia crisis: Santa Marta meet aims to drive fossil fuel shiftThe Santa Marta conference has been described as a meeting of the "coalition of doers", comprising countries and stakeholders committed to ...
- Brazil offers free cruise cabins as poorer nations struggle for rooms at COP30With COP30 just a week away, dozens of countries still lack accommodation in Belem, where hotel rates have soared. Brazil is now offering f...
- EU will have new climate targets by COP30 summit, Ursula von der Leyen saysThe European Union will set 2035 and 2040 emissions-cutting targets for the COP30 climate summit in November, after missing a UN deadline. ...
- How could a COP28 climate deal advance protection of nature?As the U.N. climate talks enter their final week in Dubai, Colombia and Germany called in an open letter for the U.N. climate summit's outc...
- Why hold UN climate talks 28 times? Do they even matter?So why bother? Even many climate watchers sometimes ask that question, and there is a growing debate about whether the current process need...
- What's the plan for this year's COP28 climate summit?The main task at COP28 is a first-time assessment of countries' progress towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the gl...
- UN peacekeeping on 75th anniversary: Successes, failures and many challengesWhile the UN has been successful in helping countries move away from conflicts, this has been overshadowed by some notable failures such as...
- 26% of world lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation: UNThe U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure a...
- Explainer: Who will pay for climate 'loss and damage'?
- COP27: What is 'Loss and Damage' compensation, and who should pay?The COP27 summit follows a year of such disasters, from floods that killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan to drought withering crops in...
- Explainer-COP27: Conversations to watch at the climate summit
- Fossil fuel plans would far overshoot climate goals: StudyClimate experts say the world must stop adding to the total amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by 2050, and that can only be done b...
- To curtail global warming, you must do more: United Nations to world leadersFor the second time in four days, this time out of U.N. headquarters in New York, leaders will hear pleas to make deeper cuts of emissions ...
- United Nations: Climate pledges put world on 'catastrophic pathway'Scientists say the world must start to sharply curb emissions soon and add no more to the atmosphere by 2050 than can be absorbed if it is ...
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