Environment adviser delivers lecture on impacts of climate change
Many wealthy countries and developing nations exposed to climate impacts wanted an accelerated timetable, arguing the reports would allow countries to be guided by the most up-to-date science.
Negotiators meeting at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome this week are tasked with breaking a deadlock on funding between rich and developing countries
In conversation with Shams-il Arefin Islam where he talks about his work and sheds light on how the cacao tree acts as an early climate alarm bell.
Scientists have developed a solar-powered device that can pull pollution from the air and convert it directly into fuel for cars and planes
As of Monday morning, many of the world's biggest polluters - including China, India and the European Union - had not done so.
Temperatures will stay at or above 1.5C in the coming years
The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia
The new benchmark affirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service caps a year in which countries rich and poor were hammered by disasters that scientists have linked to humanity's role in Earth's rapid warming.
The hearings begin a week after developing nations denounced as woefully inadequate an agreement reached at the COP29 summit for countries to provide $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035 to help poorer nations cope with climate change.
New South Wales police said 170 protesters were arrested on Sunday for refusing to move from the shipping channel near the Port of Newcastle.
Nearly 200 nations approved Sunday a climate deal that raises to at least $300 billion a year the amount wealthy historic polluters pay poorer countries to take action against global warming
"The proposed decision to allocate USD 250 billion per year for all developing countries is shockingly insufficient," said the adviser
COP29 draft deal says rich nations should pay the amount to fight climate change
Says MFJ executive director at a meeting at the sideline of COP29 summit in Baku
Developing countries, excluding China, will need $1 trillion a year by 2030 in outside help to reduce their carbon footprint and adapt to a warming planet, according to UN-commissioned experts.
Says the fund is needed for the survival of the most vulnerable countries
Despite significant potential for rooftop solar energy, Bangladesh has lagged behind in development, while Vietnam has emerged as a regional leader in the sector
