Climate change very likely worsened heat waves that scorched East Asia, East Africa and Europe in 2015, helping make it the warmest year on record, a U.S. report said Thursday.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice in the fight against climate change, and Donald Trump, who at one point called it a hoax, met on Monday in what Gore called a "productive" session.
The Food and Agricultural Organziation (FAO) said Thursday that it will support six African island nations in their efforts to make their agriculture more resilient to climate shocks and boost economic development.
The ongoing United Nations climate change conference needs to reaffirm global support for the historic Paris Agreement, Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative on climate change affairs, said here Thursday.
Nations, businesses and Washington's top diplomat urged president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday not to withdraw the US from the climate-rescue Paris Agreement and its commitments to preserve Earth for future generations.
Braving the chills in Marrakech, delegates attending a United Nations conference on climate change crossed through low-carbon fabricated pavilions, pondering pragmatic prescriptions to curb the fever gripping mother Earth.
The United States and China have an "incredible working relationship" on climate, a U.S. diplomat said Saturday on the sidelines of COP22 held in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.
China will continue to be an active player in climate talks and its policies will not be affected by any external changes, a Chinese negotiator at a UN climate change conference said here Friday.
Donald Trump's win of the U.S. presidential election on Wednesday has triggered concerns by experts attending the climate change conference here over the U.S. possible pull-out from the Paris Agreement, with others still expecting the president-to-be would be more measured and responsible on the issue.
The global accord to combat climate change agreed in Paris last year officially entered into force on Friday (Nov 4), putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start executing plans to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.
Hundreds of top scientists on Tuesday published an open letter warning against claims by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that if elected he would advocate U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change.
China's ratification of Paris climate deal on Sept. 3 marked a historic milestone in global efforts to lower green house gas emissions and hasten green and inclusive growth, a World Bank official said on Wednesday.
The board of Australia's Climate Change Authority (CCA) has split over the government's commitment to combating climate change, and two members have on Monday launched an independent report calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to do more.
The international community has welcomed the ratification of the Paris Agreement by the world's two largest economies on Saturday, lauding the move as an important step toward the deal's early entry into force and for the battle against global warming.
Humans have been causing change for almost two centuries, a Australian-led study has found, proving that human-induced climate change is not simply a recent phenomenon.
Australia's re-elected conservative government has made an abrupt U-turn on climate change policy, reinstating climate science as the bedrock of its peak science body just months after slashing its funding and axing hundreds of jobs.
Climate officials from around the world returned to the negotiation table on Monday to write a "rule book" for the Paris Agreement, a historic pact they clinched at the end of last year in France to fight global warming.
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