ANTALYA — More than 100 companies and industry groups with records of obstructing climate policy have sent delegations to the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya that outnumber those of some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, an analysis released Friday found. The 103 groups, 60 of them from the fossil fuel industry, outnumber delegates […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – France is rallying countries to write near-zero methane targets for oil and gas into the COP31 climate deal, as leaders at a summit on Thursday said it was time to move beyond the voluntary pledges on track to deliver little more than a third of the cuts promised under the 2021 Global Methane […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In his last climate summit address as UN secretary-general, António Guterres accused fossil fuel interests of “making a killing while killing our planet”, and warned that a world set to blow past 1.5°C of warming was on a “path to mutually assured destruction.” “Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs,” Guterres […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In a tale of America at a crossroads, former US Secretary of State John Kerry declared at COP31 on Tuesday that the country would soon return to a leadership role in the global response to the climate crisis, as a new report found President Donald Trump’s war on Iran had inadvertently tipped global […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – The 31st United Nations (UN) climate conference, COP31, got underway on Monday in the Turkish coastal city of Antalya, where some 100,000 people, including more than 90 heads of state and hundreds of ministers from nearly 200 countries, will gather over the next two weeks to decide what the world will or will […] Continue reading ->
The pledge to triple climate adaptation funding hammered out in the closing hours of last year’s UN climate summit in Brazil would still leave developing countries with less than a third of the money they need to protect people from deadly heat, rising seas, failing harvests and other mounting threats from the climate crisis. The […] Continue reading ->
Scaling up six climate and health measures worldwide could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year and generate $3.9 trillion in economic benefits annually, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, days before the COP31 climate talks open in Antalya, Türkiye. Five of the six measures, from improved heat-health warning systems to cleaner household fuels, […] Continue reading ->
In the late 1990s, doctors treating sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that is almost always fatal without treatment, still relied on melarsoprol, an arsenic-based drug that killed roughly one patient in 20. One patient given melarsoprol in 2003 later recalled the injection “felt like fire” being injected into his veins, turning […] Continue reading ->
The destruction of farmland, forests, wilderness and waterways is still outpacing restoration efforts worldwide, which lag far behind 2030 goals. Annual spending on restoration would need to rise more than fourfold, from $64 billion in 2022 to $296 billion by 2030, according to a report released in Yerevan, Armenia, a day before the close of […] Continue reading ->
A decade after the Paris Agreement took effect, climate-related heat, drought, floods, disease and dirty air are killing millions. The authors of a major annual report want the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify the crisis as a health emergency. Climate change has become a global health emergency that needs a new WHO instrument to […] Continue reading ->