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Eight-country coalition aims to tax luxury air travel
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Qatar to invest 1 bn pounds in climate technologies with UK
London, United Kingdom - The British government said Wednesday that it has agreed to a partnership with Qatar that will see...
- British industrial group Rolls-Royce, which manufactures aircraft engines, will receive investments for programs dedicated to energy efficiency, the statement said
- Qatar's investments in the British economy are estimated at over 40 billion pounds and the emirate indicated in 2022 that it intends to invest another 10 billion pounds by 2027
Plastic pollution talks South Korea fail to reach landmark deal
Busan, South Korea - Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing...
- For a week, delegates from nearly 200 nations meeting in South Korea have wrestled with how to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste entering the environment each year
- Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peak, in the deepest ocean and throughout almost every part of the human body
Saudi Arabia hosts UN talks on drought, desertification
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia will host the COP16 UN conference on land degradation and desertification next week as the...
- The subject of desertification is close to home for the Gulf kingdom, which has one of the biggest deserts on the planet
- Land degradation disrupts ecosystems and makes land less productive for agriculture, leading to food shortages and spurring migration
World reaches $300 bn climate finance deal at COP29
A group of 134 developing countries had pushed for at least $500 billion from rich governments to build resilience against...
- Nations grappled with bridging divides over how much wealthy, high-polluting countries should pay poorer nations most affected by climate change
- A group of 134 developing countries had pushed for at least $500 billion from rich governments to build resilience against climate change
‘Moment of truth’ for world-first plastic pollution treaty
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- Countries will have a week in South Korea's Busan from Monday to round off two years of negotiations
- The talks are a "moment of truth", UN Environment Programme chief Inger Andersen warned this month
Divided G20 fails to agree on climate action, Ukraine war escalation dominates Rio summit talks
G20 leaders in Rio failed to resolve UN climate talks deadlock, merely stating funding for developing countries battling global warming...
- Ahead of the meeting, the UN had implored the leaders of the world's richest economies to rescue stalled climate talks in Azerbaijan by boosting funding for developing countries
- G20 members, who are divided on who should pay, did not make such commitments, saying only that the trillions of dollars needed would come "from all sources."
COP29: Why new climate pledges need ambition, finance and action to succeed
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- Many countries are due to submit their climate action plans – Nationally Determined Contributions – in 2025
- The collective ability to limit global warming to 1.5°C depends on three key factors: ambition, finance and accelerated action
World leaders meet for climate talks, but big names missing raising concerns over global climate commitment
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- More than 75 leaders are expected in Baku over two days but the heads of some of the most powerful and polluting economies are not attending this year's summit
- Just a handful of leaders from the G20 -- which accounts for nearly 80 percent of planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions -- are expected in Azerbaijani capital
How harmful are microplastics to human health?
A New England Journal of Medicine study found microplastics in blood vessels are linked to higher risks of heart attack,...
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- Every day humans ingest, inhale or otherwise come in contact with microplastics, which are less than five millimetres (0.2 inches) and mostly invisible to the naked eye
UN biodiversity conference in Colombia: what’s at stake?
Paris, France - The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th...
- The COP16 is the first meeting of the international community since the adoption two years ago of an unprecedented roadmap to stop humankind's destruction of nature
- But putting that agreement into practice risks not moving fast enough to stop the destruction of land, oceans and species by a 2030 target date
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‘AI saved 1.5 billion liters of water, cut carbon emissions equivalent to 1 million trees in Saudi Arabia’
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Artificial intelligence (AI) has contributed to saving 150 million sheets of paper and conserving 1.5 billion...
- Alghamdi said that the planet is facing unprecedented challenges today, from record high temperatures to escalating climate risks that threaten global stability
- Saudi Green Initiative lies at the heart of transformative efforts, being a comprehensive national strategy comprising over 80 initiatives, he added
Qatar to invest 1 bn pounds in climate technologies with UK
London, United Kingdom - The British government said Wednesday that it has agreed to a partnership with Qatar that will see...
- British industrial group Rolls-Royce, which manufactures aircraft engines, will receive investments for programs dedicated to energy efficiency, the statement said
- Qatar's investments in the British economy are estimated at over 40 billion pounds and the emirate indicated in 2022 that it intends to invest another 10 billion pounds by 2027
Plastic pollution talks South Korea fail to reach landmark deal
Busan, South Korea - Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing...
- For a week, delegates from nearly 200 nations meeting in South Korea have wrestled with how to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste entering the environment each year
- Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peak, in the deepest ocean and throughout almost every part of the human body