Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva highlights threats to global climate progress at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil.

Some US NGO staffers and children gather in New York holding a creative, friendly activity ahead of Climate Week and the Global Summit of the Future, on September 21, 2024. Photo: VCG

PARIS: Tense negotiations on the timing and content of the UN's next blockbuster assessment of global warming science opened in China on Monday,

With the US not expected to show up at the IPCC summit, countries have a final chance to agree on the climate review

This week’s G20 finance meeting must galvanise a global climate agenda to mitigate the grave impact of the US withdrawal.

Countries’ emission reduction plans submitted to the UN are a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement because they offer all countries insight into progress being made by others — a crucial building block for annual negotiations. Environment and Climate ...

The High Ambition Coalition of European and climate vulnerable countries said grounding the 2028 UN progress report in up-to-date science was a crucial part of the Paris climate deal, and warned that severing that link “would undermine its credibility and integrity.”

Asian businesses will need to prepare for a world where they pay for their emissions—and adjust their strategy accordingly.

Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement will also cast a shadow ... gas levels — can be produced quickly enough to inform a crucial 2028 UN “stocktake” of the global response to rising temperatures.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has called on Asean countries to step up climate commitments and uphold the Paris Agreement despite shifting global policies on climate action.

Researchers say even if countries meet Paris Agreement targets on climate change, key agricultural areas could become wetlands or forests