Climate action to save glaciers 'a matter of survival' for people too
More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
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More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
The South African president invoked Nelson Mandela's emphasis on global 'interdependence' and cooperation.
Børge Brende, WEF's president, said there is "a greater level of global uncertainty than we have seen in a generation."
In 1958, climatologist Charles David Keeling pioneered the measurement of CO2 in the atmosphere.
With the Earth growing hotter and the oceans becoming warmer, rising sea levels threaten islands and coastal areas.
The report for the year ending on June 30 observes that armed conflicts increased as challenges to military rule intensified.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The 143-9 vote with 25 abstentions urges the U.N. Security Council to favorably reconsider the Palestinians' request.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
WMO reports 2023 smashed climate records at previously unimaginable levels, bringing 'misery and mayhem.'
IPU's chief Martin Chungong says its statistics show that 'women bear the brunt of the hate in the political space.'
Warming threatens to upend ecosystems from Mongolia and the Amazon to crucial ocean currents in the North Atlantic.
More than 2,800 leaders from 120 countries were expected at the World Economic Forum gathering this week.
Football's governing body will mark the 100th anniversary of the World Cup in Uruguay, where the first was held in 1930.
Increasing rice prices from India's ban “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swath of the world population."
Saulo, who has led Argentina's National Meteorological Service since 2014, is the first woman elected as WMO's chief.