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06 April 2021 Share The post-COVID economic recovery and the clean energy transition present a huge opportunity from which all nations can benefit, delegates at the IEA-COP26 Net Zero Summit agreed. Over 40 countries, covering more than 80% of global GDP, population and carbon emissions, took part in the event on 31 March to identify how to work together to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. They included the USA, which re-joined the 2015 climate accord earlier this year. (Image: IEA) The live-streamed summit was co-hosted by International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Bir...

Press Release – UN News The world needs a major breakthrough to slow the pace of climate change and build resilience to protect the most vulnerable from increasingly severe and frequent climate impacts, the deputy UN chief told a crucial high-level meeting on Wednesday, … The world needs “a major breakthrough” to slow the pace of climate change and build resilience to protect the most vulnerable from increasingly severe and frequent climate impacts, the deputy UN chief told a crucial high-level meeting on Wednesday, looking ahead to November’s COP26. With countries across the world...

By Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Dike Onwuamaeze The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecasted that Africa’s share of the volume of the world’s merchandise export and import will increase by 8.1 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively in 2021. It also projected a 2.6 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the continent in 2021 and 3.8 per cent for 2022. The predictions were made in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday by the Director-General of the WTO, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, during the virtual “WTO Press Conference on Trade Forecast for 2021 and 2022 and Review for 2020.” Okonjo-Iwea...

Thu 01st April 2021 | 12:20 AM UNITED NATIONS, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Apr, 2021 ) :The world needs "a major breakthrough" to slow the pace of climate change and build resilience to protect the most vulnerable from increasingly severe and frequent climate impacts, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a crucial high-level meeting Wednesday, looking ahead to November's UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26. With countries across the world having agreed through the ParisAgreement to a goal of limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-...

01 April 2021 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published Seven Key Principles for Implementing Net Zero to ensure "dramatic acceleration of progress towards clean growth and resilience". The document, which has so far been welcomed by 20 countries, was published following the IEA-COP26 Net Zero Summit yesterday. Announcing the Paris-based agency's plan to release this guidance after the summit, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said: "As part of the summit, we at the International Energy Agency developed seven key principles that provide a framework for countries to work togeth...