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Leaders appeal for action and unity at polarized U.N. climate talks
The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
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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The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
An independent panel says the embattled U.N. agency is rife with sexual harassment, bullying and abuse of power.
Ahead of U.N. climate talks, studies show carbon dioxide released in 2018 will be the biggest increase in seven years.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.
A new scientific assessment shows damage to the ozone layer from aerosol sprays and coolants started recovering in parts of the stratosphere with bans on ozone-depleting substances.
As much as 91% of the world's population breathes unhealthy air, which is why it's the focus of a global health conference.
The Nobel Prize-winning U.N. panel on climate change said it's life or death for much of the planet as soon as 2040.
Concerns about climate change's rapid rate of advance in the far north drove three years of talks on commercial fishing.
Low- and middle-income countries and the poorest and most vulnerable populations worldwide are the hardest hit.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands said the losses between 1970 and 2015 pose a serious threat to the "world's most valuable ecosystem" with a huge amount of biodiversity.
The picture is complicated by safety and environmental concerns and IAEA's dual roles as watchdog and promoter.
Diplomats, experts and international organizations are negotiating a new treaty aimed at protecting the rich biodiversity of open oceans against commercial pressures.
The U.N. secretary-general demanded that nations act far faster and more decisively to combat the climate crisis.
The need for more science focused on the Southern Ocean was among the themes of the Polar 2018 conference about the Arctic, Antarctic and high altitude regions.
The report from the U.N.'s Nobel Prize-winning climate panel aims to strenghten nations' actions under the Paris treaty.