Germany: Climate will last longer than Trump presidency
San Francisco, Jun 10 (AP/UNB)- Threatened as it is, the Earth’s climate will survive longer…
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‘US withdrawal exposes Paris pact’s flaws’
Statement of the March for Science Philippines on US’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord…
US pullout from Paris deal: What it means
By withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement, President Donald Trump abdicated not only…
International environmental criminal court needed
Phyllis Omido Nairobi – The announcement of the winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize…
Climate change deal can’t be renegotiated: Europe
Berlin, Jun 2 (AP/UNB)- Top European leaders pledged Thursday to keep fighting against global warming…
Mixed reactions to U.S. withdrawal from climate deal
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Jun 1 (IPS) – The United States is expected to withdraw…
G77 in key role drafting Treaty on Marine Resources
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6 CU students face action
Chittagong – The authorities of Chittagong University have expelled a student and suspended five others…
Developed countries trying to reinterpret Paris Deal: G77
Bonn, 12 May (T Ajit)- The G77 and China said that developed countries are intending…
Paris deal shouldn’t be renegotiated – developing nations
Bonn, 9 May (T Ajit) -As climate change talks under the United Nations Framework Convention…
Climate funds for world’s poorest slow to materialise
By Lyndal Rowlands UN, Apr 14 (IPS) – Climate change is making poor countries poorer,…
Climate change solutions can’t wait for U.S. leadership
By Desmond Brown Bridgetown, Barbados, Apr 4 (IPS) – From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to…
Cities and monuments switch off for Earth Hour
Washington, March 26 – The Empire State Building and United Nations headquarters in New York…
Marrakech proclamation for action on climate and sustainable dev
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew) – Parties at the climate talks on 17 Nov supported the call…
COP22 Call to fulfil $100 billion a year promise for climate actions
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew and Zhenyan Zhu) – Developed country Parties’ fulfilment of the provision of…
US envoy says climate deal is bigger than any one head of state
By Matt McGrath, BBC Environment correspondent, Marrakech The Paris climate agreement will survive a Trump…
Unease over ‘Marrakech Call for Action’ doc on anvil
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew) – Unease has emerged among some developing countries over the content of…
Trump ‘cannot turn his back’ on Paris Deal: World climate ministers
Delegates arriving for COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh ‘stunned’ that avowed climate-change denier is set…
Paris deal’s 1.5oC temprarture target needs immediate govt action
Daphne Davies, LDC News Service Marrakech – As government ministers meet in Marrakech to assess…
The Trump effect: Wary climate diplomats ‘wait and see’
The world expects the United States to uphold commitments under the landmark Paris climate treaty…
Ground-breaking Paris deal could fall apart under Trump
By Hilary Beaumont President-elect Donald Trump has sworn to back out of the Paris climate…
Eiffel Tower lit green in honor of Paris climate change deal
Paris (AP/UNB) — The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris have temporarily…
Paris deal comes into force Friday
Dhaka – The entry of the Paris Climate Change Agreement into force from Friday should…
Interference of business groups in the UNFCCC
Shaila Mahmud With the Paris Agreement coming into full effect just before the next meeting…
Nations agree on phase-out of super GHGs
Kigali – Representatives from almost 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on the phase-out of…
A nonviolent strategy to end the climate catastrophe
Robert J. Burrowes As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return…
Paris climate deal roadmap to Green Climate Fund
New York : At the recent United Nations General Assembly in New York, Secretary General…
Obama marks historic moment to combat climate change
Dhaka – Today (Wednesday) in the Rose Garden, President Obama announced that enough countries have…
India ratifies Paris climate agreement
India, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate…
Why countries must improve climate pledges?
Meraz Mostafa It’s getting close to November, which means delegates to the UN climate talks…