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Major world economies seek to halt new private sector coal financing
World's major economies looking to finalise a plan ahead of UN climate summit to halt new private sector funding for coal projects.
Azerbaijan hoping to cut emissions with $2 billion green energy investment
Azerbaijan, which is hosting COP29 this year, is hoping to raise the share of renewables across its energy sector to almost a third...
IAEA Board passes resolution against Iran on cooperation, inspectors
It follows up on the last resolution 18 months ago that ordered Iran to comply with a years-long International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
Planet overheating, ban fossil fuel ads: UN chief
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a ban on advertising oil, gas and coal as global climate monitors signal the planet is...
World hits streak of record temperatures as UN warns of ‘climate hell’
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres: "We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell."
UN chief wants a tax on profits of fossil fuel companies, calling them ‘godfathers of climate chaos’
The UN weather agency is predicting an 80% chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1.5C (2.7F) target limit by 2028
World falling short on 2030 renewables goal: IEA
Nations are falling short of the UN 2030 climate goal agreed as effort to curb global warming, International Energy Agency said Tuesday
UN biodiversity summit chief: Make peace with nature or risk more war
The head of the UN's next biodiversity says multilateral institutions are not equipped to deal with unprecedented challenges like climate change and must...
Rich nations met $100B climate finance goal two years late: OECD
In 2009, developed nations promised to raise $100B a year by 2020 to help low-income countries invest in clean energy and cope with...
Climate change threatens low-lying Caribbean hospitals: UN report
Tens of millions of people living in coastal areas around the Caribbean and Latin America face imminent risks to healthcare and key infrastructure...
