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GLASGOW: Two weeks of UN COP26 climate talks in Glasgow blew past a deadline on Friday (Nov 12) as the conference president called on countries to make a final push to secure commitments that would rein in the rising temperatures that…

The United States, Canada and 18 other countries committed at the COP26 climate summit on Thursday to stop public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of next year, and steer their spending into clean energy…

With national leaders gone from the U.N. climate conference in Scotland, attention turned on Wednesday to the state treasuries and the businesses and financiers responsible for carrying out the pledges to cut emissions and build…

Canada is among more than 100 countries that pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made and broken before.…

Forests absorb roughly 30 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the non-profit World Resources Institute (WRI). The forests take the emissions out of the atmosphere and prevent them from warming the climate. Yet this natural…

<!-- -->2015 Paris Agreement saw countries agree to cap global warming at an acceptable levelGlasgow: The years from 2015 to 2021 are on track to be the seven hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Sunday,…

7. Methane will also be on the agenda  The latest IPCC report gave more urgency to a push to limit methane emissions, which is the second biggest contributor to global warming behind carbon dioxide. Methane is much more intense when it…

Leaders of the 20 richest countries will acknowledge the existential threat of climate change and will take urgent steps to limit global warning, a draft communique seen ahead of the COP26 summit. As people around the world…

In a statement published on Thursday (Oct 28), senior scientific advisers in countries including Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Mauritius, Mexico and Morocco, said it was still possible to limit global warming to…

The announcements come a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres said the current climate situation was "a one-way ticket for disaster", stressing the need to "avoid a failure" at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. Held between Oct 31…