United Nations Climate Change

• UN climate summit ends with no deal to regulate global carbon markets

  After two weeks of negotiations in Madrid on tackling global warming, delegates from almost 200 nations passed declarations calling for greater ambition in cutting planet-heating greenhouse gases and in helping poor countries that are suffering the effects of climate change.

  World

  Dec 15, 2019
  
• Countries remain in deadlock as UN climate summit talks continue past deadline

  Countries remained deadlocked Saturday in talks over combating climate change as U.N. talks dragged on beyond the official deadline with no end in sight.

  World

  Dec 14, 2019
  
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• Climate-fuelled disasters forcibly displace 20M people a year, Oxfam report says

  Oxfam's report, published Monday, said that climate disasters have become the number one driver of internal displacement in the last decade.

  Environment

  Dec 2, 2019
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• Global effort to stop climate change ‘utterly inadequate,’ UN chief says

  Speaking before the start Monday of a two-week international climate conference in the Spanish capital, Guterres said that ``our war against nature must stop and we know that that is possible.''

  World

  Dec 1, 2019
• Reality check: is your streaming habit hurting the planet?

  How Netflix, porn and your smartphone impact climate change.

  Environment

  Aug 31, 2019
• UN climate chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ if planet continues on current path

  Patricia Espinosa stressed in two recent interviews with the Associated Press that climate scientists are saying there’s still a chance to make things right “but the window of opportunity is closing very soon” and the world has 12 years until carbon emissions reach “a point of no return.”

  Canada

  Apr 25, 2019
• World Bank doubles climate change fund to $200B in face of ‘existential threat’

  The World Bank will spend an additional $100 billion to fight climate change, with half of the funds earmarked for adapting to its effects.

  World

  Dec 3, 2018
• Why carbon capture tech is a tough sell despite dire warnings about climate change

  Advocates say carbon capture and storage technology will cut down on the impacts of climate change, but critics worry it’s too expensive.

  Environment

  Nov 29, 2018