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With an election on the horizon, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reaffirmed the UK’s net zero commitment but with an additional qualification that it must be "fairer" t...

Since Nepal Oil Corporation indicates that imports of gasoline, LPG, and diesel usage have fallen by 26%, it is wonderful to progress towards the NDC and SDC target.

On a superficial level, it makes no sense to commit so strongly to managing the impacts of climate change (adaptation) on the one hand while refusing to significantly reduce emissions (mitigation) on the other. On the other hand, when you start to unpack the logic of so much adaptation policy, this contradiction fades away. By Cristy Clark

Thank you Chair. Let me join others in welcoming Jeongil KIM, Deputy Minister for International Trade and Legal Affairs and his team from the Republic

The UKs Ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, delivered this statement at the WTO Trade Policy Review of the Republic of Korea on 13 October 2021.

Opinion: Hold China to account on climate agreement Red Jahncke FacebookTwitterEmail John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, speaks during a news conference at the White House in January.File photo Recently, John Kerry traveled to Shanghai to talk climate change with Chinese counterparts. Afterward, a joint communique committed to fight climate change “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.” On Earth Day, President Biden opened a virtual world summit on climate with a...

Published April 14. 2021 5:38PM  Red Jahncke Upon his inauguration, President Biden issued a flurry of executive orders related to climate change, including one designating climate change a national security threat, one rejoining the Paris Accord, another halting the Keystone XL pipeline and yet another freezing petroleum leases and permits on federal land for 60 days. The primary security threat by this new climate-change name looks the same as the leading national security threat in traditio...

Not just climate adaptation, but genuine transformation     The Australian government has been in the news this month for two seemingly contradictory policy responses to climate change. First, on 26 January, the Hon Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, attended the (first of its kind) Global Climate Adaptation Summit and committed Australia to join the global Call for Action on Raising Ambition for Climate Adaptation and Resilience, to developing a new National Climate Resilience and Ada...