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The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-3), opened on Monday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.INC-3 ...

Last week, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) released its annual Adaptation Gap Report which revealed that funding developing countries’ need to deal with the present impacts of climate change (adaptation finance) is 50% bigger than previously thought, with estimates of the current adaptation...

Nations grappling with the plastic "suffocating" nature and leaching into food and the human body began fresh negotiations on Monday toward a UN treaty to tackle the growing problem. Some 175 countries agreed last year to conclude by 2024 a binding agreement to combat the plastic pollution littering oceans, mountain tops, and even blood and breast milk.Negotiators have met twice already but the week-long talks in Kenya are the first to consider the concrete details of the treaty, and t...

Nations grappling with the plastic &quot&#x3B;suffocating&quot&#x3B; nature and leaching into food and the human body began fresh negotiations on Monday toward a U.N. treaty to tackle the growing problem. Some 175 countries agreed last year to conclude by 2024 a binding agreement t...

NAIROBI, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3), tasked with developing a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution, opened in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Monday.

UN warns that plans to expand oil, gas and coal production would push the world beyond agreed global warming limits.

Despite frequent and devastating heat waves, droughts, floods and fire, major fossil fuel-producing countries still plan to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with the Paris climate

The report says the near-term increase in coal production is led by India, followed by the Russian Federation, both planning significant increases in coal production through 2030.

President Iohannis will visit Kenya, Tanzania, Cabo Verde, and Senegal

Despite frequent and devastating heat waves, droughts, floods and fire, major fossil fuel-producing countries still plan to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with the Paris climate accord’s goal for limiting global temperature rise, according to a United Nations-backed study released Wednesday. Coal production needs to ramp…