Climate talks appeared stalled late night Thursday on major issues going into the final day, but possibilities for a deal were buoyed by an unexpected proposal by the European Union on two of the thorniest issues, tying compensation for climate disasters to tougher emissions cuts. Minutes after the United Nations
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Hundreds protest at UN climate summit
Hundreds of environmental activists on Saturday called on industrialized nations at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt to pay for the impact of global warming, the largest demonstration yet that came as German officials raised concerns about possible surveillance and intimidation of delegates and other conference attendees.Protests have mostly been
COP27: Key issues unresolved as talks near halftime
UN to track big emitters of heat-trapping methane
Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.The U.N. Environment Programme said Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response
FIFA World Cup: Qatar’s stadiums rife with migrant labour abuse
Migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums often worked long hours under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses as their employers evaded accountability, a rights group said in a report released Thursday. The 75-page report by the London-based charity Equidem comes less than two
ASEAN Summit: Myanmar tops agenda as global issues loom
Southeast Asian leaders convene in the Cambodian capital Thursday, faced with the challenge of trying to curtail escalating violence in Myanmar while the country's military-led government shows no signs of complying with the group's peace plan. U.S. President Joe Biden will be on hand for the Phnom Penh summit of
Either cooperate or perish: UN chief tells climate summit
"Cooperate or perish," the United Nations chief told dozens of leaders gathered Monday for international climate talks, warning them that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urging the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it. This year's annual
