UN climate summit

In an unprecedented move, the next major United Nations climate summit, Cop31, will be hosted by Turkey but chaired by Australia—a first in the three-decade history of the “Cops.” The unusual arrangement, aimed at easing diplomatic…
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Australia and Turkiye are in a standoff over which country is better suited to host United Nations climate change talks in 2026, with neither willing to give up on their bid. Both countries have been in the running since 2022, but matters…
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Mukhtar Babayev, president- designate of the 2024 UN climate summit, has one of the most difficult tasks at hand this year. As unprecedented extreme weather grips the planet with deadly heatwaves, marine heat stress, floods and droughts,…
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Ahead of the UN Climate Summit, or COP 28, set to held in Dubai in November-December this year, the Union government has notified two initiatives—a green credit programme focusing on afforestation and water conservation and an ecomark…
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In a landmark decision, the two-week-long negotiations at the United Nations' COP27 climate summit came to a close on Sunday as the delegates agreed on an overarching deal for a "loss and damage" fund for providing aid to vulnerable nations…
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Wheelchair struggles, scarce drinking water, $15 sandwiches and hotel price-gouging at the COP27 climate summit have sparked anger and forced host country Egypt into damage-control mode, participants at the two-week meet said. Organising a…
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Negotiators and ministers from 194 parties will on Saturday begin negotiating on the draft cover text as the first week of events and announcements come to a close at the COP27 UN climate summit at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. Negotiators…
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Failure of wealthy countries to keep the $100 billion pledge to help poorer nations deal with the climate crisis and mobilising funds for mitigation to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees C are expected to be the key issues at the UN…
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Having updated its nationally determined contribution (NDC) in August, India is likely to raise the issue of climate finance at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in November to support deployment of renewable energy projects on a…
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The most ominous sign of what the forthcoming COP-27 meeting on climate change portends for small states is that officials from a Group of 20 (G20) major economies, who met on August 31, failed to agree on a joint statement at the…
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