Negotiators have approved an historic deal to create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.
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Historic compensation fund approved at U.N. climate talks
The fund would compensate poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.
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UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund
According to the draft of the proposal from Egypt developed countries would be “urged” to contribute to the fund, which would also draw on other private and public sources of money such as international financial institutions.
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Climate conference serves up lab-grown meat – and a clash over food
It was just one solution for reducing the food industry’s immense carbon footprint being promoted this week at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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EU shakes up climate talks with surprise disaster fund offer
The proposed approach would create a fund for poor countries and push for steeper emissions cuts by all countries, as well as the phasing down of all fossil fuels.
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‘Brazil is back’: At COP27, Lula vows to be a global climate leader
‘There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon,’ President-elect Lula da Silva tells a packed room at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt.
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Climate activists throw liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna
Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame.
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The Recycle Bin: How to reduce your carbon footprint
Most of the world’s nations are meeting this week in Egypt for the COP27 (Council of Parties) annual international Climate Conference to negotiate the steps each nation must take to lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow the rapid rate of Earth’s warming. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke passionately of the opportunity African nations have […]
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The Conversation: How the global energy crisis is pressuring countries at the UN climate summit – while some race to renewables, others plan more natural gas production
THE CONVERSATION — Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year’s United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions that remain near record highs. The war has dramatically disrupted energy markets the world over, […]
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Seeing double? Repeat blooms a sign of the changing climate
You don’t have to look beyond your own garden for evidence of rising temperatures and the longer growing season.