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The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains “far behind” and is not doing nearly enough -- not even promising to do enough -- to reach any of the global goals limiting future warmin...

Head of the European parliaments environment commission, French MEP Pascal Canfin, today said that the negotiations had been finalised.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that emissions must fall 45 percent this decade to limit disastrous global warming.The United Nations Environment Programme, in its annual Emissions Gap report, found that updated national promises since last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow would only shave less than one percent off global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

The world is still "far behind" and isn't doing nearly enough or even promising to do enough to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a U.N. report says.

A new book by Wake Smith, “Pandora’s Toolbox,” explores controversial ideas for artificially cooling the planet. Smith discusses the hopes and hazards of geoengineering in an exclusive Mongabay interview.

The latest trilogy of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, told us that climate change is disrupting the natural world, undermining development and threatening millions with poverty.

The dramatic increase of emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) by humans over the past century and a half has created an urgency for monitoring, reporting, and verifying GHG emissions as a first step towards mitigating the effects of climate change. Fifteen percent of global GHG emissions come from agriculture, and companies in the food and beverage industry are starting to set climate goals. We examined the GHG emissions reporting practices and climate goals of the top 100 global food and beverage co...

You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021. Good news stories do not have the sensationalistic allure of dramatic prophecies of doom, but once you get past the dire headlines, there is a litany of overlooked achievements that tangibly illustrate progress. Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged

Some progress has undoubtedly been made, yet decisions may still not be enough to avoid worst case temperature rises