The world's promised cuts in greenhouse gases come nowhere close to fulfilling the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a new U.N. analysis.
The world's promised cuts in greenhouse gases come nowhere close to fulfilling the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of preventing temperatures from rising much more above pre-industrial levels, according to a new U.N. analysis on Friday.
Those pledges will lower global emissions less than 1% below 2010 levels by 2030, said the analysis by U.N. Climate Change, secretariat of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, a treaty platform for climate talks.
Health officials say millions of lives are at risk as the U.S. withdraws funding from treatment and prevention programs.
Record heat and rightward political shifts toward nationalist self-interest undermine efforts to cut fossil fuel dependence.
WHO's emergency moves follow months of warnings the U.N. health agency faces severe impacts if U.S. funding dries up.
The process of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty and WHO will take a year to complete.
The averate rate of gains for women-held seats accelerated between 2000 and 2015, but slowed in the last decade.
The five-point plan, unveiled as "ReArm Europe," is Europe's largest military and economic mobilization effort this century.
After an extraordinary U.S. repudiation, Ukraine won pledges from world leaders to urgently boost Europe's self-defense.
Health officials say millions of lives are at risk as the U.S. withdraws funding from treatment and prevention programs.
