climate change

Most children and young people say they have heard of climate change but only half understand what it is, according to a new UNICEF-Gallup poll, as world leaders gather at this year’s COP28. The global poll...

The oil-rich hosts of the UN climate conference, the United Arab Emirates, are under great pressure to step up action on global warming and wean the world off fossil fuels as the summit gets underway in...

At the UN’s COP28 conference on Thursday, the introduction of a climate “loss and damage” fund was greeted with applause and hundreds of millions of dollars in pledges, but there were also cautions that much more...

Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the...

A concerned Iraqi father gestures to a blister on his one-year-old daughter’s cheek, which is the result of a parasite infection that sandflies in her isolated village carried. “It’s a skin disease, the ‘Baghdad boil’,” Najeh...

Pope Francis urged attendees of the next COP28 climate meetings to accept binding regulations on the phase-out of fossil fuels on Wednesday, warning that the world “is collapsing” as a result of global warming. The 86-year-old...

Tuesday saw the debut of Indonesia’s first carbon market, providing businesses with a means of offsetting their emissions as Jakarta makes a commitment to becoming carbon neutral in its power sector by 2050. The nation is...

Children in Africa are among the most at risk of the impacts of climate change but are woefully neglected by the key climate financing flows required to help them adapt, survive and respond to the climate...

UN experts have written to Saudi Aramco and its financial supporters, confronting them over claims that their operations are causing adverse effects on human rights related to climate change. Exactly two months after it was delivered,...

As part of attempts to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming and hold it in check, a coalition of nations including EU economies and climate-vulnerable nations said Friday that a “urgent” transition away from fossil...