Youth climate movement decides strategy at Swiss-hosted summit
Their demands call for supporting developing nations, paying for cleaner technologies, and pressuring wealthy nations.
Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Wildfires. Food shortages. Mass coral reef deaths and widespread species extinctions. Global pandemics. Every other issue is secondary. In a world of climate change, direct impacts on humanity are evident where we live and work and on the health and well-being of many populations. Climate change is a truly global issue; fighting it demands global cooperation and financing through summits, known as COPs, and landmark treaties like the Paris Agreement.
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Their demands call for supporting developing nations, paying for cleaner technologies, and pressuring wealthy nations.
The IPCC shows how overconsumption and ill treatment of animals, forests and plants is making global warming worse.
The aim is to help fulfill the Paris Agreement’s goal of preventing average global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels, or 1.5° if possible.
The U.N. health agency had rejected making an emergency declaration three times before, but said it now fears the deadly virus disease could spread to neighboring countries.
The head of the 36-nation organization called on governments to listen to millions of people worried about climate change.
Only 30 countries appear to have taken steps towards creating fully compliant systems that can provide the accurate climate information that is needed to fulfill the 2015 accord.
The left-leaning Greens’ young environmental supporters in the European Union's parliament shared a pro-E.U. sentiment.
WHO's decision-making body included it as a medical condition in a diagnostic manual for classifying diseases.
Delegates to the global decision-making body will tackle ways to strengthen emergency response and restructure the agency.
On a South Pacific trip, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said 'we are not winning' against the climate crisis.
A legally-binding global mechanism for managing plastic waste sends a political signal to markets and consumers.
Scientists say the Arctic region is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the planet, but the Trump administration blocked a council statement from referring to that threat.
Accelerating species losses undermine humanity's perch on the planet because all life depends on rich species diversity.
Extreme weather events are rising in frequency and intensity, disproportionately hitting poor countries and communities.
The U.N. health agency said RTS,S is the first and only vaccine shown to significantly reduce malaria in children.
After an emergency meeting, WHO’s director said he accepted a panel's recommendation to skip an emergency declaration.