Afghans have joined Kurds, the Laz, Roma and other ethnic minorities and undocumented migrants in doing work others snub. For less than $10 a day, they roam the streets of Istanbul collecting trash — a profession that is illegal in the country, and has led to its practitioners being arrested...

The country is looking to move up a position and become the world’s second-largest gas producer with this field.

The two countries are seeking to establish a regional complex for the extraction, use, and storage of carbon.

Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.

The signing of the MoU reportedly coincided with the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to the UAE.

The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has joined the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a network of 100 central banks and financial supervisors that aims to accelerate the scaling up of green finance and develop recommendations for central banks' role in climate change. The bank, according to local...

The riverbed has been the rallying spot for farmers and other people from across Isfahan province protesting the lack of water. Drought is a cause, but they also accuse the authorities of diverting water from the city to supply a neighboring province, which is also desperately short on supplies.

For net-zero, carbon-capture tech cannot spend another decade on the sidelines of climate mitigation efforts, said the IEA.

The fund will collaborate with the UN agency to build climate-resilience and take shock-informed anticipatory action.

The UAE, Jordan, and Israel have committed themselves to building renewable electricity and water desalination capacity and address the threat posed by climate change on energy and water security in the region.

Le Maire said that that the two countries will launch projects in renewable energy and hydrogen besides fighting climate change.

"Thousands of people from Isfahan, farmers from the east and west of the province, have gathered in the dry Zayandeh Rood riverbed with one key demand: let the river run," a state television journalist in Isfahan reported, broadcasting live images of Friday's rally.

High fashion can be detrimental to the environment because of its large carbon footprint.

A sustainability-focused company strategy boosts brand value and efficiency, matches customer demands, attracts top personnel, and opens new doors.

While Brazil takes international pledge at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest keeps rising in the country.

Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment.

Rich countries stand accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at risk of drought, rising seas, fire and storms. The deal, the European Commission says, has "kept the Paris targets alive". However, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stresses it was "not...

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more people in Syria are in the grips of hunger than at any time in the country’s decade-long conflict. He blamed a deadly combination fighting, climate change, Covid-19, and rising food and fuel costs for the problems.

Some people conflate the target of zero carbon emissions with the notion that the era of oil, gas, coal, and other fossil fuels is ending. Even though we are experiencing a trend toward generating energy from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, this is inaccurate.

The draft Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report is scheduled for release early next year.

The UNFCCC confirmation of the UAE as the host for the 28th conference followed unanimous endorsement by the Asia Pacific Group of nations during COP26, where nearly 200 countries have gathered to take concerted action to cap global greenhouse gas emissions and unite against climate change.

Countries with poor economies will face severe consequences of climate change caused by the rich nations.

Finance is a crunch issue at the summit, with developing nations demanding rich emitters make good on decade-old promises to provide $100 billion a year to help them cope.

Fossil fuels, energy and transport tend to dominate climate discussions. Governments largely ignore livestock’s contribution to climate change, terrified of taking on the powerful vested interests that drive expanding global consumption of meat and dairy. Changes to our diets could contribute up to a fifth of the mitigation needed to...

Demonstrations are expected across Glasgow against the disconnect between the pace of emissions reductions and the climate emergency.

Overall, CO2 pollution this year will be just shy of the record set in 2019, according to the annual report from the Global Carbon Project consortium, released as nearly 200 nations at the COP26 climate summit confront the threat of catastrophic warming.

During the UN talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the two countries launched the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have made some strong climate-action pledges at or before COP26.

During the recent olive harvest, Palestinian farmer Dalal Sawalmeh raked her fingers through the silvery green leaves of her family's trees but said there weren't as many olives cascading to the ground.

LONDON: The United Kingdom will provide $68 million in funding to help the Middle East and North African countries' energy transition and development of green infrastructure, British Minister for the MENA region James Cleverly said. Cleverly made the announcement on the second day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)...

The summit's chair, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the agreement on deforestation was pivotal to the overarching ambition of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius. "These great teeming ecosystems –- these cathedrals of nature -- are the lungs of our planet," he was expected to say in Glasgow,...

Erdogan's decision follows a crunch meeting in Rome on Sunday with US President Joe Biden, which the Turkish leader had expected to take place on the sidelines of the COP26 event. The two leaders agreed to try to move past a range of disputes.

The world is at a turning point on climate change. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has urged world leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to make strong policies and to cut global emissions to keep global warming to 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius.

Meeting in person for the first time in two years, G20 leaders had climate change, the Covid pandemic, a tax deal and global economy worries on agenda.

Leaders of the world's most advanced nations are hoping to hammer out a way forward on climate change and vaccine equality.

Summit host Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister, has called for a ‘G20 commitment on the need to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees’ above pre-industrial levels. On Friday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a dire warning of what could happen if the world failed.

Not only is the kingdom ramping up oil production, it is also making a major play for the trillion-dollar emerging industries touted as a route to cleaner air.

The 25 percent reduction would equal to a dip of 37 Mat CO2 eq by 2030, according to national figures, and is expected to include various sectors such as oil and gas, power and water, transportation, and construction. This will reportedly be achieved by employing a variety of policies and...

Climate adaptation means adjusting to the current effects of climate change and preparing for its predicted impacts in the future.

Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said new processes enabling capture and reuse of carbon were key to the kingdom achieving net zero.

The move comes barely days after the country announced during the Saudi Green Initiative forum that it aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. The kingdom also said it would join a global effort to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

The project, which covers 7.2 million square feet of land in Al Rahmaniyah area, builds on the concept of future cities and urban planning, says SSC CEO Yousif Ahmed Al-Mutawa

Ashaafean is the first Libyan site to be categorised as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.

The royal couple's November 16-19 visit will start in Jordan, a UK ally whose King Abdullah II has come under pressure over leaks about his offshore wealth and over an alleged coup plot. The tour comes after the heir to the UK throne visits Glasgow next week for the COP26...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced two initiatives to fund the "circular carbon economy" and provide "clean fuel" to help feed 750 million people worldwide.

The UN's blunt report comes as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the COP26 host, said he was "very worried" that the 12-day climate talks could go awry.

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha has said that the best way to achieve zero emissions was to increase investment in science and technology. He said if the world continued to follow the current policies and technologies, its zero-emissions efficiency will be 30 to...

The company acknowledged that this would have its challenges.

At the Saudi Green Initiative forum, the Gulf country has also vowed to join a global effort to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

With the latest international climate conference just days away, the proposed ban will halt support to new coal power stations that don't have systems that trap the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.