The upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt must mark a leap from the process of hammering out a treaty to ensuring that its goals are met, the UN's climate chief said. "This COP needs to demonstrate that there is a distinct shift from negotiations to implementation," UN Climate Change Executive...

The UN warning followed a study of 18,600 glaciers at 50 World Heritage sites -- covering around 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) -- which found glaciers at a third of the sites were "condemned to disappear".

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's victory over climate-skeptic Jair Bolsonaro has raised hopes for the battle against global warming. Election officials in Brazil on Sunday declared leftist Lula won in a run-off against his far-right rival. A spokesperson for Lula told AFP that he "is considering going but has not...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said the world needs to keep investing in oil production, just days before the COP27 climate summit aimed at curbing global warming. Sultan Al Jaber, the head of UAE oil giant ADNOC, warned that under-investment could cause a shock to the world economy.

The bilateral relations between the two countries are based on mutual respect and appreciation. The significant advancement in the bilateral ties in recent years in several major sectors, notably the economic and trade sectors, has led to a rise in their trade exchange to record levels, she adds.

The World Bank estimates that by 2050, if nothing is done to prevent it, there will be 216 million people internally displaced by climate change, including 19.3 million in North Africa.

At COP26 countries agreed to deliver stronger commitments this year, including updated national plans with more ambitious targets. However, only 23 out of 193 countries have submitted their plans to the UN so far. The countries must dramatically scale up their efforts to counter the climate crisis, he adds.

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES - Carbon neutrality goals are useless if not backed by action, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday, stressing that the world cannot "afford any more greenwashing." "Commitments to net zero are worth zero without the plans, policies and actions to back it up," he said in...

Saudi Arabia is engaged with many European governments with regards to the current energy crisis, says Prince Abdulaziz bin Salmanat at FII Forum in Riyadh

The meeting comes amid a global dialogue about energy security and just weeks ahead of the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27).

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. Heatwaves are predicted to "exceed human physiological and social limits" in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and...

Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said that protecting migratory birds and biodiversity is one of the global and regional environmental challenges that her country is keen to address during the UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27).

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."

Against the backdrop of surging energy prices and the threat of a global food crisis, the IEA urged nations to use the coming COP27 meeting in Egypt to "accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by decades, cut energy costs and boost food security for billions of people worldwide".

President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday approved most military aid to Egypt for a second straight year despite concerns on human rights, pointing to limited progress, officials said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken finalized a package of $1.17 billion for Egypt, which has been one of the largest recipients of...

Nicosia, Cyprus - The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows. Barring swift policy changes, its more than 400 million people face extreme heatwaves, prolonged droughts and sea level rises, said the report...

Egypt's environment minister Yasmine Fouad said that Egypt will also remind rich countries of the industrialized world of their unfulfilled aid pledges, at the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The country seeks to represent Africa which shares little of the blame for global warming but...

A long-delayed UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicks off in Lisbon Monday, with thousands of policymakers, experts, and advocates on the case.

Amnesty International has called for the release of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who on Saturday marks 1,000 days of "unjust detention".

Egypt hopes to jump-start the action needed to face a warming world when it takes the presidency of major UN climate talks in November but warns that countries need a "reality check" as progress stalls. Presiding over the inflection point when a decades-long United Nations climate process switches from negotiation...

Egypt and the European Union have reviewed and discussed enhanced cooperation on climate, energy and industrial transformation challenges ahead of COP27 in Egypt later this year. On Wednesday, on the occasion of the visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El...