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NAIROBI, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Children in Africa are among the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, with only 2.4 percent of the global climate funding targeting the youngest, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report launched on Friday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Hong Kong-based Melco Resorts is doing away with single-use plastic bottles at its Macau, Philippines, and Cyprus casino resorts.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund has been launched during the Seventh Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Assembly in Vancouver, Canada. The newly established fund will facilitate financing for developing countries—which are often the most biodiverse—to enhance their ability to protect,…

WASTEWATER is a growing health and environmental threat, accounting for almost as much planet-warming emissions as the aviation industry. Yet with the right policies, wastewater could provide alternative energy to half a billion people, supply over 10 times the water provided by current global desalination capacity and offset over 10 percent of global fertilizer use. These findings appear in an analysis published by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal with the Global Wastewater In...

Vancouver - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the launch of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund during the Seventh Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Assembly in Vancouver, Canada.The newly established

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.

Africa’s reserves of critical minerals make the continent key to the success of the global semiconductor and EV markets, but it could also benefit from supply chain diversification.

From the column: "Biden has approved more oil and gas permits on public lands than the administration of President Donald Trump did in an equivalent time period."

This summer has toppled heat records, with July going down as the hottest month in world history.

The federal Environment and Climate Change Minister is firing back at Conservative critics who are calling his diplomatic trip to China a "betrayal."