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At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has pointed out that effective action plans to address climate change are not possible without adequate, sustained, and flexible climate finance, and we fully agree with her.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. MANILA - The ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference 26 (COP26) is the "last best hope" of Earth in the face of human-induced climate change, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said as he joined urgent calls to finalize the Paris Agreement rulebook. "This is the world's last-ditch effort to save the planet. Let's get that Paris Rulebook done. Succeeding COPs will be fine-tuning solutions or accelerating them,&...

Satellites will play a key role in helping the world slash its methane emissions in line with the global pledge introduced by the U.S. President Joe Biden at the COP26 climate change conference.

A total of 41 Rwandan children were airlifted from Gashora commune to far away Italy in 1994 as heavy gunfire, bombs rained all over the country while Rwanda Patriotic Front Rebels fought against government forces. Italy government and caretaker priests have remained silent and refused these children to reconnect to their Rwandan families. Taarifa has […]

Climate conference expected to focus on role of business and money in getting world back on track, but no Finance Ministry officials will be there to weigh in

Countries are finding it difficult to agree rules on how they can reduce emissions through collaboration with one another

As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure of a 50% reduction on

ANALYSIS: With COP26 underway, it's a more ambitious pledge to cut our emissions, but it relies on buying credits from offshore. There's no system for doing this, or for ensuring genuine cuts.

It is something of a tragic irony that the COVID-19 pandemic has been the single most influential factor in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent times. It took a global health crisis to cut emissions by about 5.4 percent last year, as many of us were under repeated government-imposed lockdowns. This is not to suggest that the cure-all for climate change will be either

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) The coming two weeks at Glasgow are pivotal for world leaders and are hard at work on climate priorities -- to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as required by the 2015 Paris Agreement and is the real science.