Act on climate change to cut 'outrageous' pollution deaths: WHO KATOWICE: Fighting climate change is one of the best ways to improve health around the world, and the benefits of fewer deaths and hospitalisations would far outweigh the costs of not acting, the World Health Organization said on... Art & Culture 06 Dec, 2018
Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland KATOWICE: Negotiators from around the world opened the United Nations’ annual climate change conference Sunday in a Polish city built around mining coal, widely seen as a main culprit behind global warming. Arriving for two weeks of talks on... Art & Culture 03 Dec, 2018
Carbon finance We are living in a key moment in human history. The recently published special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has amply cautioned on the consequences of 1.5ºC of global warming. Countries in Asia and the Pacific are already... 26 Nov, 2018
UN warns world must take "unprecedented" steps to avert worst effects of global�warming UN report to guide governments on meeting Paris targets Report affirms meeting 1.5C rise target better than 2C Exceeding 1.5C rise would demand removing CO2 Global sea level to rise less with a 1.5C hike LONDON/INCHEON: Society would... Art & Culture 08 Oct, 2018
Trump dominated UN, but US nationalism at odds with world UNITED NATIONS: US President Donald Trump dominated this year's gathering of global leaders that ended Monday, but his rejection of "the ideology of globalism" left America almost singlehandedly holding a nationalist banner against urgent calls... Women 02 Oct, 2018
Greenhouse gas ADB is committed to helping its developing member countries reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build climate resilience as part of our overall strategy to address climate change in Asia and the Pacific. In late 2015, we announced that we would... 09 Apr, 2018
CO2 removal 'no silver bullet' to fighting climate change: Scientists CO2 removal technologies have limited contribution to make More effort needed to reduce CO2 emissions LONDON: Technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help tackle global warming only have limited potential and more... Art & Culture 01 Feb, 2018
US cities most menaced by climate change are least energy-efficient NEW YORK: Miami and other US cities most at risk from disasters exacerbated by global warming are also among those whose high energy consumption is fuelling temperature rise, data from clean-energy company Arcadia Power showed on Tuesday. The... Women 30 Jan, 2018
Warming oceans could scupper marine food system: scientists ROME: Failure to rein in global temperature rises could cause the marine food web to collapse, devastating the livelihoods of tens of millions of people who rely on fisheries for food and income, scientists have warned. Warming oceans restrict... Art & Culture 10 Jan, 2018
Climate change Last week, representatives of the world’s multilateral development institutions and member institutions of the International Development Finance Club reconvened in Paris for the One Planet Summit to reaffirm their commitment to the 2015 Paris... 28 Dec, 2017
Climate change According to NASA, 16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. So—with climate change high on the global agenda—almost every nation signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, the primary goal of which is to limit the rise in global... 28 Nov, 2017
Poor nations suffer most deaths, economic pain from wild weather LONDON: Fatalities and economic losses from severe weather are rising in many of the world's poorest countries as climate change and a lack of disaster preparedness worsen threats, risk experts said. Over the last 35 years, 60 percent of... Art & Culture 12 Oct, 2017
