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UN chief Antonio Guterres is hosting the Climate Ambition Summit in New York today, using the day to convince nations to elevate their national climate pledges.
The Prince of Wales will attend the COP30 climate summit in Brazil next month on behalf of the King, Kensington Palace has announced. Prince William and King Charles appeared together on Thursday evening at a reception ahead of the environmental conference, which is to be held in the northern Brazilian city of Belem.
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Dozens of countries have yet to secure accommodation at next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil and some delegates are considering staying away as a shortage of hotels has driven prices to hundreds of dollars per night.
King Charles III and Prince William attended a joint engagement at the Natural History Museum in London on Thursday, following William's call for change in the monarchy last week.
When Brazil was named host of the COP30 climate summit two years ago, it was seen as the perfect celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, where nations pledged to keep climate change within safe limits.
Seven conservative organizations ask Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to skip Brazil climate summit.
African countries push for radical change to tackle climate crisis as key summit wraps up - ON THE GROUND: Nick Ferris reports from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where activists back ambitious fina
When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses,
The link between high debt burdens and worsening climate impacts is a vicious cycle for low-income countries. Paying for disaster recovery takes away from basic services such as education and healthcare, meaning governments have to borrow more, and so their debts pile up. High interest rates based on perceived risk mean this debt is expensive.
The dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs means the planet has now reached its first tipping point from human-caused climate change, report finds.