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Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images(SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt) -- Negotiators from around the world are gathering in Egypt this week for this year's biggest international climate summit, called COP27. The United Nations recently warned the world is far from its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than before the industrial revolution, the goal set by the Paris Climate Agreement. Current policies would lead to 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the ce...

(SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt) -- Negotiators from around the world are gathering in Egypt this week for this year’s biggest international climate summit, called COP27. The United Nations recently warned the world is far from its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than before the industrial revolution, the goal set by the

The world is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030, critical for a credible pathway to the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal, according to a new report by the UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Green Gigaton Challenge (GGC). It finds that for the 2030 goals to remain within reach, a one gigaton milestone of emissions reductions from forests must be achieved not later than 2025, and yearly af...

COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.

This year, money reigns supreme.

Countries in Africa have some of the lowest national greenhouse gas emissions, and yet the continent is home to many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries

Last November, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations’ annual climate conference, to negotiate a new pact to keep global warming at bay.

The COP27 climate summit is set to meet next week after a year of climate-driven disasters like the flooding in Pakistan and drought in East Africa.

Dateline: November 7-18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend, lending an aura of importance. “Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime. If we are not able to reverse the present trend that is

Islamabad : China’s solutions to climate change are more feasible for countries such as Pakistan. China’s status as a developing nation allows it to relate to the realities of other...