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Funding for climate adaptation is ‘stalling’ as need rises, UN warns

The world is facing an ‘adaptation emergency’. How can world leaders fill the growing gap at COP28?

02/11/2023

Green News

COP28 President urges countries to find common ground at UN summit

Pre-COP talks are taking place this week to lay the groundwork for negotiations at the UN climate summit in late November.

30/10/2023

Climate

What is COP28, who is going and why does it matter?

After a record-shattering year, the world is looking to the United Nations conference in the UAE this week to put us on a safer path.

28/10/2023

World News

Euroviews. Should this year's COP28 be the last?

Different, more flexible and more regional summits and organisations must emerge to collectively achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, Dr Marc Nebojsa Vukadinovic and Isabelle Négrier write.

24/10/2023

Climate

Loss and damage fund: Why haven’t countries worked it out yet?

The US and other developed nations have been accused of ‘playing hard ball’ with climate victims, as talks ended in failure.

23/10/2023

Green News

Greta Thunberg charged after protesting London oil conference

‘Oscars of oil’: What is the Energy Intelligence Forum and why are Fossil Free London activists trying to shut it down?

18/10/2023

Climate

Air pollution: Which countries tackle it in their climate plans?

G20 countries are failing to integrate air pollution into their climate plans, a new study finds. The authors want that fixed at COP28.

18/10/2023

Green News

EU to push for deal on phasing out fossil fuels at COP28

The 27-member bloc has now agreed its negotiating position ahead of the UN climate conference in Dubai.

16/10/2023

World News

Euroviews. We have to back COP28. It’s the most ambitious climate plan in history

If COP28 brokers a global climate deal on these proposals, it would help fast-track a just transition away from fossil fuels. If it fails, the chances of such a transition will be dangerously diminished, Prof İbrahim Özdemir writes.

29/09/2023

Green News

COP28: Can the world agree on the future of fossil fuels?

Fossil fuel use is set to be a key topic at the UN climate conference in Dubai - but tension is brewing.

27/09/2023

Climate

UN kicks off ‘no nonsense’ climate summit without biggest polluters

Crediting ‘fighters and trailblazers’, the UN climate summit is giving the floor to the world’s most ambitious governments.

20/09/2023

Green News

World way off target on Paris climate goals, UN warns

A landmark report from the UN says more climate action is needed 'on all fronts'.

08/09/2023

World News

Euroviews. Why is the EU putting an oil man in charge of its climate portfolio?

Whilst fossil fuel companies' history of climate denial is common knowledge, there are still a worrying number of revolving door cases between fossil fuel companies and our EU politicians, Martha Myers writes.

06/09/2023

Green News

World’s climate targets to be assessed in new stocktake

Are countries sticking to the Paris Agreement? The UN is about to find out.

06/09/2023

Green News

World is 'losing the race' to meet climate goals, COP28 president says

It is just three days until the United Nations publishes the first-ever global stocktake which will assess how nations are doing in their efforts to tackle climate change.

05/09/2023

World News

Euroviews. COP28: Fossil fuel industries must decarbonise or be left behind

Less than three months before COP28, the message to the energy and transport companies is clear: decarbonisation will happen, and there is no way out, Prof Vicente López-Ibor Mayor writes.

04/09/2023

Green News

EU to push for deal on 'phasing-out' fossil fuels at COP28

A proposal to phase out CO2-emitting fossil fuels at COP27 last won backing from more than 80 countries but oil and gas-rich nations opposed it.

04/09/2023

Green News

Activists will be allowed to protest ‘peacefully’ at COP28, says UAE

Campaigners vow they will resist any attempts to curtail civil society participation at the UN climate summit in Dubai this year.

02/08/2023

World News

Euroviews. This is how COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber could fix climate finance

The upcoming COP28 is an opportunity to stop climate finance from being a bone of contention and to turn it into a chance to build a better, more resilient world, Dr Nina Seega writes.

27/07/2023

Green News

Wind and solar could produce over a third of the world's power by 2030

Energy prices will drop as wind and solar production increases

15/07/2023