Global climate litigation to force action more than doubles in 5 years
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
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As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Mining the deep seas: The best way forward to a green energy transition, or a looming environmental disaster?
Don't say we weren't warned: Extreme weather events and new records are becoming the norm as our polluted Earth suffers warming oceans, raging fires and rising floods.
Speakers blamed major economies for a system that puts profits over fighting poverty and caring for the planet.
"Let's face facts. The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It's fossil fuels – period," he said.
The debate over who should succeed Jens Stoltenberg, a Norwegian former prime minister, has become complicated. It's also possible he could agree to a fourth contract extension.
As the only G-7 member to have joined Beijing's sprawling global pact, Italy had indicated it would leave. But now Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the decision is still up in the air.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus many of the world's glaring inequalities between rich and poorer nations.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, formerly ostracized by most Arab nations, was warmly readmitted to the Arab League.
Humanitarian leaders say the risk of nuclear catastrophe is the highest 'since the worst moments of the Cold War.'
Though the emergency phase is over, the World Health Organization's pandemic designation still holds.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.
The Group of Seven's nonproliferation directors expressed alarm that Russia, China and North Korea have all been pushing to expand their nuclear-armed capabilities.
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator's office set a US$4.3 billion target to help people suffering in the war-torn nation.
U.S. and Chinese diplomats met for the first time since the U.S. shot down what officials called a Chinese surveillance balloon.