Climate Change
Congo refuses to back deal, seeking greater funding for developing world.
Updated 20 Dec, 2022 08:39am
Conservationists hail amended draft that still needs to be agreed upon by 196 signatories to biodiversity convention.
Updated 19 Dec, 2022 08:30am
World needs to set aside a third of all land and sea territories to save them, UN experts say.
Updated 15 Dec, 2022 09:18am
Negotiators work to agree on conservation targets by the summit’s scheduled end on Dec 19.
Updated 13 Dec, 2022 09:50am
Report says Pakistan's emissions represent 0.7pc of global emissions, but livestock alone generates 36pc of this amount.
Updated 12 Dec, 2022 08:59am
Thunderstorms increased more than five times to 240.
Updated 08 Dec, 2022 10:02am
If wealthy countries fail to follow through on promises made in the past, such pledges will continue to remain only numbers on paper.
Published 02 Dec, 2022 01:58pm
Climate diplomacy is driven by faith in prolonged engagement in complex processes.
Updated 01 Dec, 2022 08:30am
Global failure to keep commitments would have devastating consequences, FM warns.
Updated 29 Nov, 2022 09:04am
The legal action comes as Sweden’s new right-wing government faces mounting criticism over lacklustre climate goals.
Updated 26 Nov, 2022 10:01am
The negotiated outcome reflects the paradoxical, turbulent yet powerful times we live in.
Updated 24 Nov, 2022 08:13am
Pakistan’s mission was spurred by devastation from unprecedented monsoon and extreme heatwaves this year.
Published 22 Nov, 2022 07:30am
District administration urges Unesco to engage consultants in carrying out study for launching storm water drainage schemes.
Updated 21 Nov, 2022 08:43am
“It is up to the transitional committee to build on the historic development," PM Shehbaz says; FO hails it as "momentous achievement".
Updated 20 Nov, 2022 04:47pm
Talks stalled over terms under which wealthy polluters provide “loss and damage” funding for countries wracked by disasters.
Updated 20 Nov, 2022 07:51am
US, EU had previously resisted the idea; senior Egyptian official thinks conditions unacceptable to some countries.
Published 18 Nov, 2022 06:33pm
"We also have to make sure that this call does not diminish the earlier agreements we had on phasing down coal," says EU official.
Updated 16 Nov, 2022 11:05am
Minister says COP27 must help unlock private, public financing for adaptation and mitigation.
Updated 14 Nov, 2022 09:38am
US climate envoy John Kerry says they have "heard the cries" of vulnerable countries like Pakistan.
Updated 13 Nov, 2022 09:00am
Climate activists are the only people left in the village of Luetzerath, Germany, which sits above a rich vein of coal.
Updated 13 Nov, 2022 09:09am
Says $125tr needed to reach net-zero by 2050.
Updated 12 Nov, 2022 09:09am
System will use data from global mapping satellites to detect methane “hot spots” and large plumes of the gas.
Updated 12 Nov, 2022 10:14am
Most of us have no idea that COP27 is even taking place.
Updated 11 Nov, 2022 07:59am
Calls on Islamabad to make its case for concessional international funds.
Updated 10 Nov, 2022 08:28am
Implications are worrying as sea level rise already threatens millions of people living along coasts.
Updated 10 Nov, 2022 09:05am
Report suggests measures and reforms to make the country "climate-smart" and "climate-resilient".
Published 09 Nov, 2022 08:02pm
Guterres says "moral imperative" for richer polluters to help vulnerable nations; Al Gore criticises West’s pursuit of resources.
Updated 08 Nov, 2022 09:28am
Delegates agree to put "loss and damage" issue on COP27 agenda.
Updated 07 Nov, 2022 08:06am
New UNDP report on COP27 eve predicts number of "extremely hot days" could rise to 179 by year 2099 .
Updated 06 Nov, 2022 07:45am
Sherry says major contributors to global warming ‘repeatedly fall short’ on pledges.
Updated 04 Nov, 2022 08:32am
