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New green tech finance platform launches
A group of nations responsible for nearly half of all global warming pollutants launched a new finance initiative to oversee investment in climate technologies.
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A group of nations responsible for nearly half of all global warming pollutants launched a new finance initiative to oversee investment in climate technologies.
Voters in Switzerland's national elections delivered a major boost to left-leaning Greens who back urgent U.N.-led climate action and other ecological causes.
E.U. leaders unanimously approved a tentative Brexit agreement with the U.K. if it leaves the 28-nation bloc in November.
Maritime piracy and armed robbery dropped by 24% in the first nine months of 2019, but Africa's Gulf of Guinea remains a "high risk area."
An agreement to limit black carbon emissions that accelerate melting of glaciers and sea ice entered into force in Europe and North America.
Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva took over as IMF chief, signaling her five-year term will champion empowering women and fighting climate change.
Up to 100,000 people turned out for Switzerland's largest-ever climate demonstration to insist on fulfilling the U.N.-brokered goals to cut greenhouse gases.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create a mission to investigate cases of suspected human rights abuses in Venezuela over the past five years.
Europe's top court ruled E.U.'s digital privacy rules do not require Google to delete links to outdated or embarrassing info outside its 28-nation bloc.
The US$100 million plan will reconstruct Mosul's cultural heritage, including its famed 12th-century al-Nuri mosque.
IAEA confirmed Iran is preparing to use arrays of more advanced centrifuges, in another violation of the deal.
Farming, logging, mining and other human activities add to climate impacts on land, costing up to 17% of global GDP.
The summit in France was overshadowed by fears of an escalating trade war between the United States and China.
The E.U.'s antitrust probe of the Libra project focuses on concerns it would improperly shut out rival payment systems.
Their demands call for supporting developing nations, paying for cleaner technologies, and pressuring wealthy nations.
A U.N. fact-finding mission urged the international community to sever ties with Myanmar’s military.