"The United Nations will keep rallying the world for peace, sustainable development and human rights. Let’s resolve to make 2024 a year of building trust and hope in all that we can accomplish together. I wish you a happy and peaceful New Year," the United Nations Secretary-General adds.

Antoine Samaha of BCG applauds the launch of a Loss and Damage Fund for developing countries, emphasizing the need for efficient, equitable climate funding.

"Renewable energy is key to our planet's future. It's time to phase out fossil fuels and embrace sustainable solutions. The fate of humanity depends on the decisions made at this COP. I urge you to take the lead. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Make this COP count,"...

"Renewable energy is key to our planet's future. It's time to phase out fossil fuels and embrace sustainable solutions. The fate of humanity depends on the decisions made at this COP. I urge you to take the lead. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Make this COP count,"...

"At COP28, governments need to focus on two timeframes: an immediate surge in climate action and a springboard for the next crucial two years and beyond. In Dubai, governments must determine which bolder actions are necessary and how to implement them. COP28 must be more than a photo opportunity," he...

PARIS, FRANCE - Wavering ambition by governments and a growing belief that science is politically subjective are great causes for concern in a rapidly escalating climate crisis, an expert told AFP. A cascade of extreme weather events have inflicted devastation in 2023, which the European Union's climate monitor says is likely...

Abu Dhabi, UAE - A global summit for faith leaders from around the world will take place in Abu Dhabi from November 6 to 7, to highlight the crucial role of faith communities in addressing climate change. The summit will take place ahead of the 28th Conference of the Parties...

The investment in green hydrogen has not curbed expansion in oil and gas, with both the UAE and Saudi Arabia planning to grow their hydrocarbon industries. Experts predict it could still take years before Gulf countries can produce green hydrogen at a cost competitive with fossil fuel-based alternatives.

Through the COP28 Summit, the UAE aims to facilitate discussions, build consensus, and catalyze transformative actions to address the escalating global climate crisis.

“We must work as one – governments, firms and consumers alike – to break our addiction to plastics, champion zero waste, and build a truly circular economy. Together, let us shape a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future for all,” he adds, highlighting how plastic pollution can be cut by...

UNCTAD’s Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan and Deputy Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno will lead the organization’s delegation to the fifth UN conference on LDCs (LDC5) taking place in Doha, Qatar from 5 to 9 March.

"There's no doubt that our 53rd annual meeting in Davos will happen against the most complex geopolitical and geoeconomic backdrop in decades. So much is at stake," said Borge Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister who is now president of the meeting.

Economists expect Germany and another major eurozone economy, Italy, to fall into recession. Britain's economy is already shrinking. Rating agency S&P Global foresees stagnation for the eurozone in 2023. But the International Monetary Fund still expects the world economy to expand in 2023, with growth of 2.7 percent. The OECD...

Publishing a video of the action on Twitter, the environmental protest group Last Generation wrote: "If it takes a painting –- with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it -– to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all: Then we'll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting!"

The fund trimmed its world growth forecast to 2.7 percent in 2023, and its chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas cautioned that the next year would feel like a recession for many people. Throughout its meetings of financial chiefs this week, the crisis lender stressed that the priority was for central banks...

Producers in Europe and China have warned of significantly lower than expected harvests in crop staples due to the dry spell, after food prices spiked to multi-year highs following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Imperial College London, called the crop...

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said Russia's war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, food price and energy shocks plus the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic were creating the conditions for a world recession.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on governments to tackle "four burning issues" between now and COP27: greater ambition to keep the 1.5C possible; meeting financial commitments to the developing world; increasing support for adaptation measures, and the issue of "loss and damage."

Campaigners say this "significant misalignment" between communication strategies and business plans could allow five of the biggest privately-owned energy firms to continue to delay the decarbonization needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Some 5.5 million Chadians around a third of the landlocked central African country's population needed "urgent humanitarian assistance" last year, according to the United Nations.

Last year, new internal displacements from conflict surged to 14.4 million marking a 50-percent jump from 2020 and more than doubling since 2012, the report showed.

Cultivating alternative energy sources is an urgent priority in India, which burns coal to meet nearly three-quarters of the energy needs of its 1.4 billion citizens.

Disasters caused by climate change since 2000 have killed approximately 2,600 people, affected seven million others, and caused $2 billion in direct material damage. It may have also reduced annual economic growth by 1-2 percentage points on a per-capita basis, it adds.

Cargo ships use a particularly dirty type of fuel but the shipping industry has sought to shift to cleaner-burning LNG.

The automaker is switching all sales away from traditional fuel cars.

The world has seen a crescendo of deadly extreme weather amplified by rising temperatures -- heatwaves, wildfires, flooding, storms.

Here’s a broader look at how the region has prioritized solid-waste recycling and the production of alternative fuels to deal with the trash they generate.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will soon face his first major test in deciding on a new offshore oil project.

Hollywood A-listers are rarely shy about making political statements at the Academy Awards -- despite accusations of hypocrisy.

For a 50/50 chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C, 19 countries in which per capita GDP would remain above $50,000 without oil and gas revenue must end production by 2034. Included in this tranche are the US, Norway, Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates.

"When are we going to talk about it?" read a sign at demonstration in France where thousands came out to urge politician to work on climate crisis issues.

If all aircraft started using green hydrogen on eligible routes, it would 'reduce aviation's carbon emissions by 31 percent in 2050, representing a capping of emissions at 2035 levels,' found the International Council on Clean Transportation. However, this would not entirely eliminate CO2.

The researchers found that 92 percent of 165 countries studied will experience extremely hot annual temperatures every two years.

The fact that the European Commission quietly distributed the text of this proposal to member states late on Friday, in the final hours of 2021 after the much-delayed document had been twice promised earlier in the year, highlighted the rocky road to draft it.

Each year, UK charity Christian Aid calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires, and heat waves according to insurance claims. In 2020, it found the world's 10 costliest weather disasters caused $150 billion in damage, making this year's total an increase of 13 percent.

The International Energy Agency warned in May that an immediate halt to new investment in fossil projects is needed if the world is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to stand any chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C.

Flood devastation, heavy rainfall, and Drought in Canada cause severe damage to the food supply chain and agricultural production.

More than 200 scientists told the COP26 summit Thursday to take immediate action to halt global warming, warning in an open letter that some climate change impacts were "irreversible" for generations. The central task of the Glasgow meeting is to implement the Paris Agreement, with its goal of limiting temperature...

The text called for nations to "revisit and strengthen" their decarbonisation plans by next year and said that limiting heating to 1.5C "requires meaningful and effective action by all parties in this critical decade".

The Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.’

Iraq's hardscrabble farmers and livestock herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life.