The Middle East and North African region is among the most vulnerable to climate change, but the public health impacts are relatively unknown.
Chinese-led efforts to lower tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran could bring a greater focus on climate vulnerabilities in the region, ahead of the next round of U.N. climate talks that Dubai will host later this year.
Foreign ministers Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Hossein Amirabdollahian of Iran met in Beijing on Thursday in the wake of an agreement in March to restore the regional rivals' diplomatic relations.
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 U.N. weather agency says the Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is "not yet dead but in grave danger."
The Trump administration's erosion of U.S. policy as Europe's main protector played out in a series of U.N. votes on Ukraine.
The coalition Merz forms will greatly influence his ability to govern the country or to strengthen multilateral institutions.
Trump's embrace of Putin and contempt for long-established transatlantic ties is an existential crisis for Europe and NATO.
More than 30 years later, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as it laments the Budapest Memorandum's broken promises.
