Shortly after the opening ceremony of the 2023 United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, delegates of nations around the world rose in a standing ovation to celebrate a long-awaited agreement to launch a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries recover from climate-related disasters. But the applause might not yet
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GP takes part at Regional Climate Summit
The Climate Conversations
Climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution. However, negotiating a solution has been challenging due to several factors. One of the main reasons that recent COP Climate summits and other international climate talks have not been able to resolve climate change is that there is a
Loss and damage fund saves COP27 from the abyss
COP27: EU shakes up talks with surprise disaster fund offer
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
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
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
A climate summit following empty promises & funding failures
The COP 27 climate summit is taking place amid a rash of political, economic and environmental upheavals, including missed funding and emission targets, increased pollution and climate devastation, rising global inflation, cuts in Western development assistance and the negative after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The
Are climate summits a waste of time?
Momen bats for joint climate event during COP26
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has underscored the need for hosting a climate eventon the sidelines of COP26 in Glasgow in early November to bolster cooperation among the climate-vulnerable nations, including Bangladesh. Dr Momen batted for the joint climate event --Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) -- during bilateral discussions with COP26