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The United Arab Emirates, host of this year’s UN climate talks, unveiled on Thursday the much-awaited plans and priorities for COP28, to be held in November in Dubai.The plan could lead to a global agreement to double energy efficiency,…

Current climate policies will leave more than a fifth of humanity exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by 2100, new research suggests. Despite the Paris Agreement pledge to keep global warming well below 2°C (compared to pre-industrial…

Issued on: 17/05/2023 - 14:43 It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse…

NEW DELHI: The pace and scale of what has been done so far, as well as the current pledges of emission cuts by nations, are insufficient to tackle climate change and the world may well breach the dangerous threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius…

"A MORAL TARGET" It was a stunning diplomatic coup. Many scientists, however, were less than thrilled. "It will be very hard - if not impossible - to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius during the entire 21st century," Joeri Rogelj, a…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: A few countries have resisted mentioning a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the official text of the COP27 summit in Egypt, US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said at the conference on…

The world’s current climate pledges are far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius and will steer a world already wracked by increasing floods, heatwaves and storms towards “catastrophic” warming, the UN said Wednesday.…

Issued on: 26/10/2022 - 22:34 The world’s current climate pledges are far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius and will steer a world already wracked…

"DISAPPOINTING" But only 24 countries, of 193, had updated their plans at the time of the report, which Stiell said was "disappointing". "Government decisions and actions must reflect the level of urgency, the gravity of the threats we…