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‘We have failed’ to keep warming under 1.5C, UN chief tells COP30News

‘We have failed’ to keep warming under 1.5C, UN chief tells COP30

Belém, Brazil | AFP The world has "failed" in its promise to hold warming below 1.5 °C, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told global leaders in Brazil…
SourceSourceNovember 6, 2025 Full article
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Hurricane Melissa: UN launches $74 million response for 2.2 million in CubaNews

Hurricane Melissa: UN launches $74 million response for 2.2 million in Cuba

Around 2.2 million Cubans remain in dire need of assistance across the eastern provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, and Guantanamo as the after…
SourceSourceNovember 6, 2025 Full article
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EU strikes last-ditch deal on climate targetsNews

EU strikes last-ditch deal on climate targets

Brussels, Belgium | AFP The European Union struck a deal Wednesday on the 27-nation bloc's next big emissions-cutting targets in time for next week's UN COP30…
SourceSourceNovember 5, 2025 Full article
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Trees, targets and trillions: what’s on the agenda at COP30?Facts

Trees, targets and trillions: what’s on the agenda at COP30?

Paris, France | AFP This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the…
SourceSourceNovember 4, 2025 Full article
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Fewer than 60 world leaders confirmed for Brazil climate summitNews

Fewer than 60 world leaders confirmed for Brazil climate summit

Brasília, Brazil | AFP Brazil said Friday fewer than 60 world leaders have confirmed their attendance of an Amazonian summit next week ahead of the annual…
SourceSourceOctober 31, 2025 Full article
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World far off track to meet climate goals: UNClimate

World far off track to meet climate goals: UN

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The UN estimated Tuesday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10-percent emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it…
SourceSourceOctober 28, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: Geneva from aboveNews

Image of the day: Geneva from above

United Nations Day on 24 October 2025 marks 80 years since the UN Charter came into force in 1945. Established in the aftermath of World…
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In China, climate litigation starts with the stateNews

In China, climate litigation starts with the state

Beijing, China | AFP | Muser NewsDesk With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in…
SourceSourceOctober 15, 2025 Full article
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Brazil’s climate wins ahead of COP30News

Brazil’s climate wins ahead of COP30

Brasília, Brazil | AFP Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record…
SourceSourceOctober 14, 2025 Full article
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UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operationsNews

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

Paris, France | AFP The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2025 Full article
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‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UNNews

‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UN

United Nations, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con…
SourceSourceSeptember 24, 2025 Full article
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EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding ’embarrassment’News

EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding ’embarrassment’

Brussels, Belgium | AFP The EU agreed on a broad emissions-cutting target on Thursday to bring to a UN conference in Brazil, sparing the bloc potential…
SourceSourceSeptember 19, 2025 Full article
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UN pushes nations to submit overdue climate plansNews

UN pushes nations to submit overdue climate plans

Paris, France | AFP The United Nations on Wednesday urged nations late in turning in their climate plans to do so quickly, with major polluters among…
SourceSourceSeptember 3, 2025 Full article
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Cooling La Niña may return in coming months: UNNews

Cooling La Niña may return in coming months: UN

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The cooling La Niña weather phenomenon may return between September and November, but even if it does, temperatures are…
SourceSourceSeptember 2, 2025 Full article
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1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UNNews

1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UN

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning…
SourceSourceAugust 26, 2025 Full article
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Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treatyNews

Last chance saloon for global plastic pollution treaty

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution have less than 24 hours to salvage a…
SourceSourceAugust 14, 2025 Full article
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Promise less, act more: Host Brazil’s climate summit vowNews

Promise less, act more: Host Brazil’s climate summit vow

Paris, France | AFP Ahead of the first UN climate summit in the Amazon, its president has defended the choice of Belem to host the conference…
SourceSourceAugust 12, 2025 Full article
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Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talksNews

Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly…
SourceSourceAugust 10, 2025 Full article
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UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’News

UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Nations must step up and resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in…
SourceSourceAugust 5, 2025 Full article
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Plastic pollution ‘grave and growing’ health threat: LancetNews

Plastic pollution ‘grave and growing’ health threat: Lancet

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5…
SourceSourceAugust 4, 2025 Full article
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Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world recordNews

Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world record

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday -- a lightning megaflash that…
SourceSourceJuly 31, 2025 Full article
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ICJ ruling underscores ‘immensity’ of climate challenge: EUNews

ICJ ruling underscores ‘immensity’ of climate challenge: EU

Brussels, Belgium | AFP The EU Thursday described as "important" a ruling by the world's highest court declaring that states are obliged to tackle climate change…
SourceSourceJuly 24, 2025 Full article
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World’s top court paves way for climate reparationsNews

World’s top court paves way for climate reparations

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obligated under international law to tackle climate change and warned that failing…
SourceSourceJuly 23, 2025 Full article
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ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinionNews

ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinion

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a seminal ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to…
SourceSourceJuly 23, 2025 Full article