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Global emissions are propelling us toward surpassing the critical 1.5°C warming threshold, triggering catastrophic consequences such as rising sea levels, intensified extreme weather events, and large-scale displacement. Recent UN climate data further emphasizes this distressing trend, demanding immediate and concerted action.

The following questions and answers address key questions regarding the failure by UAE, this year’s COP28 host, to protect its migrant workers.

Compensation is still non-existent, and contributions are being “greenwashed” through existing projects and commitments, thereby not actually creating any new funds and having no net effect. This will not do.

At COP28, it’s important to ensure people with disabilities are included in climate negotiations and agreements to cut emissions by phasing out fossil fuels and protecting those most at risk of adverse climate effects.

‘Keeping the global temperature below not just 1.5 degree Celsius, even 2 degree Celsius is beyond our reach now. Both are impossible.’ By SHOBHA WARRIER The United Nations report on climate change released on November 14, 2023 says that when the world needs to cut down carbon emission by 43% by 2030, but it is

DUBAI, (CMC) – A new action group announced in Dubai yesterday will help Commonwealth countries, including Caribbean states, rapidly cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane as part of wider efforts to keep rising global temperatures...

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

A new action group announced in Dubai will help Commonwealth countries, including African member states, rapidly cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane as part of wider efforts to keep rising global temperatures within liveable limits. The country-led coalition was announced at a ministerial event on the margins of the United Nations Climate Change

The government is between a rock and a hard place over whether to allow companies to drill off Ireland’s coast.

After her start as a young lawyer working on the Love Canal case, Kimerling refused to take part in class-action litigation that consumed decades and victimized Ecuador’s Indigenous peoples. Now, her day in court has finally come on one group’s behalf.