Paris agreement

SHARM EL-SHEIKH (EGYPT): Fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations and accumulated heat, the past eight years (2015-22) are on track to be the eight warmest on record and the year 2022 will possibly be the fifth or sixth…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the deal struck at the end of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow as a “big step forward” and the first-ever international agreement to “phase down” the use of coal. Praising the…

LONDON: The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. If the 2015 Paris Agreement provided the framework for countries to tackle climate change…

GLASGOW: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said a UN climate change summit had made progress towards halting runaway global warming but more was needed to seal a deal. "We've moved the ball a long way down the pitch, but…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returns to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Wednesday to issue a last-ditch call on countries to "pull out all the stops" just as the first draft of an agreement is issued. The draft,…

GLASGOW: If you thought the Covid pandemic was disruptive and deadly, climate change will be so much worse. So said a slew of panelists Tuesday at the UN climate talks in Glasgow, warning about escalating climate-linked health threats…

GLASGOW: Developing nations accused richer countries of bargaining with the lives of billions of people on the climate crisis frontline Monday, blasting insufficient commitments as COP26 talks enter their final week with trust in short…

GLASGOW: Former US President Barack Obama said on Monday that the bad news for United Nations climate talks was that the world was nowhere near where it needed to be on tackling global warming yet. Referring to the Paris Agreement struck…

The ConversationOct 25, 2021 17:14:17 ISTA week from today, a crucial round of United Nations climate change negotiations will begin in Glasgow and the stakes could not be higher. By the end, we’ll know how far nations are willing to go…

PARIS: Countries that have signed up to the Paris accord to tame climate change need to be more ambitious in their own national efforts, the UN's climate chief said on Saturday. Only just over half of countries that are party to the…