Denial, division, geopolitics dealt heavy blows to global cooperation this year: UN climate chief Stiell after COPCOP30 in Brazil concluded with a pledge for more funding to help countries adapt to extreme weather. UN Climate Change Executive Secretary ...
23 Nov, 2025, 06.49 AM IST
UN climate chief urges COP30 negotiators to not 'waste time on stonewalling'UN climate chief Simon Stiell has urged ministers to accelerate COP30 talks in Brazil. Negotiations are facing deadlock with five days rema...
18 Nov, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
India already exceeding key climate targets, can grow faster using clean energy: UN climate chiefIndia is exceeding key climate targets and has the potential for even faster growth through clean energy, says UN climate chief Simon Stiel...
19 Feb, 2025, 04.20 PM IST
UN climate head urges nations to step up actionIn his first address of the year, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary Stiell stressed that c...
08 Feb, 2025, 12.56 AM IST
COP29 week one ends in deadlock as divisions stall climate action progressThe G-77/China bloc reiterated the call for $1.3 trillion annually in climate finance, with an emphasis on grants and concessional funding ...
18 Nov, 2024, 10.09 AM IST
G20 role in climate finance critical: UN body chiefAhead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, UN climate chief Simon Stiell urged world leaders to prioritize climate action and increase fina...
17 Nov, 2024, 06.45 AM IST
COP29: Need to improve financing to enable climate action, says UN climate chief Simon StiellReferring to the findings of the progress report on efforts to raise over $100 billion a year prepared by the COP's Standing Committee on F...
15 Nov, 2024, 12.18 AM IST
International climate finance must 'grow up, step up, and scale up, to meet this moment': UN Climate chiefUNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell articulates the urgent need to step up climate finance, articulating a two-pronged approach—one, wi...
23 Oct, 2024, 12.37 PM IST
G7 must lead the way on tackling global warming: UN climate chiefStiell urges G7 at Turin to take lead with deeper emissions cuts and increased climate finance to meet Paris Agreement goals and avoid a gl...
29 Apr, 2024, 02.40 PM IST
U.N. climate chief says two years to save the planetGovernments, business leaders and development banks have two years to take action to avert far worse climate change, the U.N.'s climate chi...
10 Apr, 2024, 09.06 PM IST
UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left 'to save the world'Humanity has only two years left "to save the world" by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even...
10 Apr, 2024, 07.56 PM IST
UN climate chief's blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate changeTo keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money - tr...
02 Feb, 2024, 08.25 PM IST
UN climate chief tells nations to act rather than score points at COP28UN climate chief Simon Stiell told countries on Wednesday to agree ambitious action to tackle global warming at the COP28 climate summit ra...
06 Dec, 2023, 03.59 PM IST
G20 climate statements 'woefully inadequate': UN climate chief Simon StiellThe G20, which accounts for about 85 percent of the world's economy and greenhouse gas emissions, will meet in New Delhi in the absence of ...
06 Sep, 2023, 09.48 PM IST
UAE vows to allow 'peaceful' assembly of climate activists at COP28The choice for it to host COP28 has sparked criticism from environmental groups which warn that the involvement of a major oil exporter cou...
01 Aug, 2023, 08.31 PM IST
UN Climate Boss: Global stocktake a course correction opportunityThe former minister for climate resilience and environment of Grenada has a plan for making the global stocktake count. In an interview wit...
28 Feb, 2023, 02.59 PM IST
Countries' pledges not enough to achieve Paris goals: UNThe United Nations climate change secretariat has released a new assessment after analysing the combined climate pledges of 193 parties sub...
27 Oct, 2022, 01.01 AM IST