Talks begin in South Korea to clinch ‘essential’ deal on plastics pollution
MA Busan, South Korea (PANA) - Talks began in Busan, South Korea, on Monday aiming to clinch a legally binding deal on plastics pollution, led by [...] Full text...
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COP29: Climate talks conclude with $300 billion annual pledge
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually to the global fight against climate change as UN climate talks [...] Full text...
Global plastics treaty: UN experts call for centrality of human rights
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts said on Thursday that the forthcoming global plastic pollution treaty must ensure accountability at every stage [...] Full text...
COP29: Failure on climate finance ‘not an option’, says Guterres
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres made a strong call to action as COP29 approaches its crucial conclusion in Baku, imploring world leaders [...] Full text...
COP29: New climate finance deal, urban challenges in spotlight at conference
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As intense round-the-clock COP29 climate talks enter their final stretch in Baku, delegates on Wednesday are eagerly awaiting updates on the [...] Full text...
UN, Brazil launch new initiative to counter climate disinformation
MA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PANA) - As the dangers posed by climate change become increasingly evident worldwide, the need for reliable and accurate information on [...] Full text...
‘Breaking point’ reached on climate, while ‘outdated’ global system needs urgent reform: Guterres
MA Rio de Janiero, Brazil (PANA) - In a powerful appeal to the world’s largest economies during the G20 Summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday [...] Full text...
COP29: Boost from Rio as G20 leaders back scaling up climate finance from ‘billions to trillions’
MA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PANA) - The high-level diplomatic push for climate action shifted southward on Tuesday as G20 leaders meeting in Rio sent a [...] Full text...
COP29: ‘Cut the theatrics’: UN climate chief tells negotiators to focus on solutions as talks enter final week
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As COP29 climate talks in Baku enter their final week, the UN climate chief told negotiators on Monday to “cut the [...] Full text...
COP29: Putting people at the centre of climate solutions: World Bank Blog By Mamta Murthi and Juergen Voegele
AR Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Climate change is an urgent human crisis. Since 2022, 400 million students worldwide have faced school closures due to extreme weather, [...] Full text...
COP29: Will conference deliver the trillions needed to tackle the man-made climate crisis?
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The latest round of UN climate negotiations, COP29, opened this past Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, following a year that broke multiple [...] Full text...
COP29: Digital tech and AI can boost climate action, but curbing the sector’s emissions is key
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Leaders in technology and the environment at COP29 in Baku endorsed on Saturday a declaration pledging to use digital technologies to [...] Full text...
COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The UN environment agency chief warned the COP29 climate summit in Baku on Friday that methane emissions must come down – [...] Full text...
COP29: ‘You have every right to be angry’ Guterres tells youth advocates frustrated over lack of climate action
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As negotiations over how to tackle climate change head into their fifth day in Baku, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed [...] Full text...
COP29: UNHCR amplifies voices of displaced on frontlines of climate change
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday launched the Refugees for Climate Action initiative in a bid to mobilise the world’s forcibly displaced [...] Full text...
COP29: ‘Now is the time to fast-track, not backtrack’ on the path to net-zero
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Meeting on Thursday with non-governmental entities in Baku for the COP29 climate talks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the crucial role [...] Full text...
COP29: Energy transition must not trigger a ‘stampede of greed’ that crushes the poor
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Climate talks at COP29 in Baku on Wednesday turned to the pressing issue of how to manage the demand for minerals [...] Full text...
South African delegation participates in COP29
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A high-level South African delegation is attending COP29 which is underway in Baku, Azerbaijan until 22 November.The conference is [...] Full text...
COP29: Multilateral development banks to boost climate finance
AR Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) on Tuesday issued a joint statement at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for [...] Full text...
COP29: World Bank expands lifeline to small States hit by disasters
AR Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The World Bank Group has expanded its lifeline to countries struggling to rebuild from disasters, allowing small, vulnerable states to postpone [...] Full text...
COP29: Climate change is growing threat to people fleeing war, violence and persecution
MA Baku, Azerbainan (PANA) - In a new report presented at COP29 on Tuesday, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said climate change has become a growing [...] Full text...
COP29: Guterres urges countries to ‘get serious’ on loss and damage funding
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for countries to step up contributions to a financial mechanism to assist developing countries [...] Full text...
COP29: ‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns climate summit
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that leaders gathered in Baku for the COP29 Climate Action Summit must take immediate steps [...] Full text...
African cities strive to make roads less perilous for pedestrians and cyclists: UNEP Feature Article
AR Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - For Patience Ataliba, who lives in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, commuting was once a harrowing affair. The 23-year-old student and [...] Full text...
COP29: Push for agreement on new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told negotiators at COP29 in [...] Full text...
World Urban Forum focuses on housing, community support in war-torn cities
MA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Delegates discussed a complicated urban development issue at the World Urban Forum on Tuesday: What is needed to safeguard residents and [...] Full text...
Record heat persists as WMO calls for urgent services and investment boost
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is experiencing unprecedented warming with 2024 poised to become the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record in [...] Full text...
Deadly weather events show cost of climate inaction
MA Baku, Azerbailan (PANA) - Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of [...] Full text...
Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit
MA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Thursday, [...] Full text...
Why pastoralism matters more than ever for the Sahel and West Africa’s future: World Bank open editorial by Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani, President of Mauritania, Mahamat Idriss Déby, President of Chad and Ousmane Diagana, World Bank Vice-President for West and Central Africa
AR Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Today, more than ever, we must turn our attention to pastoralism across the Sahel and West Africa. Stretching from Mauritania and [...] Full text...
COP29: Leaders must commit to fair climate financing and fully phasing out fossil fuels
MA Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making [...] Full text...
Prince William visits President Ramaphosa in Cape Town
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday hosted the Prince of Wales at his official residence in Cape Town.The [...] Full text...
World Urban Forum in Cairo hears calls for youth-led solutions to urban challenges
MA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Young people gathered in Cairo for the World Urban Forum led calls on Tuesday for action to ease the housing crisis [...] Full text...
'Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040'
MA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - More than two billion people currently living in cities could be exposed to an additional temperature increase of at least 0.5 [...] Full text...
EC publishes 2023 international climate finance figures
AR Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - In 2023, the European Union and its 27 member states contributed €28.6 billion in climate finance from public sources and mobilised [...] Full text...
Tackling lead pollution to unlock development potential: World Bank Blog By Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Senior Managing Director
AR Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Lead is in materials all around us, often unseen. From factories, mines and spices to being in our water supply pipes, [...] Full text...
Global UN forum opens in Cairo to rethink urban development
MA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Thousands of delegates on Monday joined United Nations representatives gathered in Cairo to kick off the twelfth edition of the World [...] Full text...
COP 29: Richer countries must commit to pay at COP29 as climate change forcibly displaces millions across Africa
MA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - With millions of people already displaced by climate change disasters in Africa, the richer countries most responsible for global warming must [...] Full text...
Prince William to host 2024 Earthshot Prize in Cape Town
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – UK's Prince William is due to arrive in Cape Town on Monday ahead of the fourth annual Earthshot Prize on [...] Full text...
COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted
MA Cali, Colombia (PANA) - The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded at the weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever [...] Full text...
Some 1.2 billion people at high risk from climate change worldwide - World Bank
MA Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Some 1.2 billion people face life-changing risks through exposure to at least one critical climate hazard, such as heatwaves, flooding, [...] Full text...
COP 16: People want action on plastic pollution that’s choking us: Guterres
MA Cali, Colombia (PANA) - Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” [...] Full text...
COP16: Guterres urges world to ‘choose wisely…make peace with nature’
AR Cali, Colombia (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for decisive action to restore harmony with nature, warning that environmental crises are pushing [...] Full text...
Angola hosts inaugural national climate outlook forum
AR Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Climate Services Centre in collaboration with the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of Angola [...] Full text...
UN official urges more ambitious, credible climate action plans
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Proposed actions by countries to mitigate the worsening impacts of climate change “fall miles short of what is needed,” according to [...] Full text...
Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent [...] Full text...
Climate and Environment: Climate crunch time is here,’ new UN report warns
AR Cali, Colombia (PANA) - Annual greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, and urgent action must be taken to prevent catastrophic spikes in temperature [...] Full text...
South Africa participates in biological diversity conference
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa is participating in the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso formally accepts WTO agreement on fisheries subsidies
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burkina Faso Burkina Faso has formally accepted the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which prohibits subsidies for illegal, unreported [...] Full text...
Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, according to a [...] Full text...