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Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks at a press conference at the close of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on 13 November 2021

Britain urges nations to deliver on climate pledges this year

Britain called on other nations on Monday to do more to deliver on an agreement struck last year at UN climate talks, with COP26 president Alok Sharma saying this year was the "time to honour our ...

Fragments of ice float on the water of Fouque fjord at the Beagle Channel in Chile, on 30 November, 2021

Chilean scientists study climate change at 'end of the world'

Chilean scientists studying organisms in one of the most remote places on Earth are urging regional leaders to step up efforts to tackle climate change

A boy poses for a picture with the rifle of a Taliban fighter near the camel enclosure at the Kabul zoo on 17 September, 2021

Events that marked a tumultuous year 2021

From the Covid pandemic to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and extreme weather, we look back on the key events of 2021

Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, 6 December, 2021

Putin lauds India as military, energy ties bolstered

Russian president Vladimir Putin lauded India as "a great power" in New Delhi on Monday as the traditional allies bolstered their military and energy ties, despite Washington's increasing courtship ...

British prime minister Boris Johnson

COP deal 'tinged with disappointment': UK PM

British prime minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed a global accord to speed up action against climate change as "truly historic" and "the beginning of the end for coal power"

US special climate envoy, John Kerry speaks at a press conference at the close of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on 13 November 2021.

COP26 opens era of accountability: John Kerry

United States climate envoy John Kerry said on Monday that the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow had opened a new phase of "accountability" in the world's battle against climate change.

Thunberg denounces COP26 deal, UN chief warns 'catastrophe' close

Thunberg denounces COP26 deal, UN chief warns 'catastrophe' close

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned of an impending "climate catastrophe", while environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg dismissed Saturday's COP26 climate conference deal as "blah, blah, ...

A protestor holds a sign reading "Capitalism Eats Our Planet" during the Climate Justice March from Times Square to Governor Hochul's Manhattan office in New York on 13 November 2021

COP26 What’s in the Glasgow Climate Pact?

Under the deal developed countries have essentially just agreed to continue discussions on the topic

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks at a press conference at the close of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on 13 November 2021

Climate change COP26 strikes hard-fought deal but UN says ‘not enough’

The deal called on all countries to accelerate their emissions cuts by submitting new national plans by 2022, three years earlier than agreed in Paris

Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina, presents her national statement as part of the World Leaders' Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on 1 November 2021.

PM Hasina returns home ending 2-week visit to UK, France

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Sunday morning, wrapping up her two-week visit to the United Kingdom and France

Delegates attend the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain 13 November 2021.

Last-minute negotiations as UN climate conference set to close

Negotiators shuttled between delegations at the UN climate talks in Scotland on Saturday, seeking a deal to give the world a fighting chance of avoiding the worst effects of global warming, as the ...

A man walks past a advertising in relation with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) where world leaders discuss how to tackle climate change on a global scale, near the conference area in Glasgow Scotland, Britain on 30 October 2021.

COP26 talks stumble on climate cash 'cliffhanger'

Sleep-deprived COP26 negotiators on Saturday struggled to bridge deep divisions holding up an ambitious deal to deliver the emissions cuts needed to avert the accelerating disaster of climate change

A person wearing a mask depicting Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson protests during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain on 12 November 2021

Vulnerable states call climate loss and damage deal ‘bare minimum’

The US and EU have long resisted creating a fund for such payments, concerned about being on the hook for compensation and liability

In this file photo taken on 4 February 2020 Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson speaks during an event to launch the United Nations' Climate Change conference, COP26, in central London.

Nations inch towards climate deal at COP26

COP26 climate talks were closing in on a global deal aimed at limiting devastating global warming, with UK organisers hoping for a final agreement to the marathon negotiations on Saturday

Oxfam activists dressed as a Scottish pipe band and representing (L-R) Russian president Vladimir Putin, Italian prime minister Mario Draghi, French president Emmanuel Macron, US president Joe Biden, British prime minister Boris Johnson, Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, India's prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping pose during their "Big Heads" protest stunt at the Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow on 1 November 2021 on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Summit.

Cows, cars and climate

Extensive public awareness and incentives play a part in making people environment-friendly. Unless the people themselves are climate and environment-friendly, no government or conference can play an ...

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