A new IEA report shows that tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency can be achieved with 'enabling' conditions.
The International Energy Agency says full implementation of the energy goals from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai last year would cut carbon pollution and significantly accelerate a shift in the global energy sector.
What's new: IEA's report on Tuesday, seven weeks before COP29 begins, is meant to prod countries into acting on their pledges. Almost 200 countries agreed at the U.N.-led climate summit to achieve net zero emissions from the energy sector by 2050.
Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
Nations for plastic production limits and oil-rich producers deadlocked in the hours before the talks were set to expire.
Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to conclude the world's first legally binding plastic waste treaty.
Experts agreed science and diplomacy need to evolve to build trust, solve problems, and promote national interests.
The spike in the world’s deadliest infectious disease comes as officials warn global aid cuts could lead to a resurgence.
More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
From migrants to refugees, millions of lives and the organizations that help them are at risk from U.S. aid cuts.
