Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent strong signals at the ongoing Paris climate change conference, warning against mentality of zero-sum game, expressing resolve in fulfilling Beijing's commitments and showing willingness to advance international cooperation.
At the opening of 12 days of intensive negotiations on how to reduce global warming and preserve the planet, French President Francois Hollande on Monday asked for action and not only good will to find a universal, binding agreement by the end of the summit.
Children will bear the brunt of climate change as more than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21.
Tens of thousands of Italians joined the Global Climate March 2015 with a rally in Rome on Sunday, urging world leaders to act courageously against climate change.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) ended in Malta on Sunday with an agreement on new measures to tackle climate change and combat radicalisation.
Around 6,000 to 7,000 people demanded measures to protect the climate in a demonstration held in Amsterdam on Sunday, one day before the opening of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris.
The gathering of world leaders in Paris to negotiate ways to combat climate change should provide "a political impulse" to reach a "binding" and "ambitious" deal, French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
Optimism has mounted for the upcoming Paris climate change conference, with "a powerful, ambitious and legally binding deal" expected to be reached to deal with climate change after 2020.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released new guidelines on Tuesday to assist countries in better conserving and sustainably using genetic resources for food and agriculture in times of climate change.
Rapid, breakneck and even reckless: Just a few of the words commonly used to describe China's growth in the last few decades, but for the next five years, the word on every China watchers's lips will simply be "green".
President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Francois Hollande issued a joint statement on climate change in Beijing on Monday, vowing to promote a working program to accelerate pre-2020 efforts in mitigation, adaptation and support during the Paris climate summit.
As China and Britain have been working on a major nuclear power project and renewable energy, the two countries are set to step up their efforts to shape a low-carbon future.
As China and Britain have been working on a major nuclear power project and renewable energy, the two countries are set to step up their efforts to shape a low-carbon future.
Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia and the president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, said he was confident that countries would be able to reach an agreement to tackle climate change during their meeting in Paris late this year.
Addressing climate change is not a burden, but a new opportunity to create future drivers of growth through technological innovation, said President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Park Geun-hye Monday.
China pledged on Friday a 20-billion-yuan (3-billion-U.S. dollars) fund to help other developing countries combat climate change.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the joint efforts made by the United States and China can generate many possibilities and the leadership of the two countries is vital to achieving a successful global climate agreement in Paris later this year. At the closing ceremony of the China-U.S. Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles, Biden said: "There is no obvious reason why the U.S. and China can be competitors or enemies...
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