Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, dubbed COP28, which drew … Read more
This July, as heat waves swept across Europe and the US, NASA and the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service both made a damning prediction: 2023 was set to be the hottest year on record. Now, with the Northern Hemisphere’s extreme summer heat and wildfires behind us, we’re still on track for that prediction to … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A landmark agreement to shift away from fossil fuels thrusts U.S. policy into the global spotlight, with campaigners demanding … Read more
COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during the Transforming Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change event on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit at Dubai Expo on December 1, 2023. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Government ministers representing nearly 200 countries on Wednesday agreed to a deal that calls … Read more
DUBAI — The second crack at a breakthrough climate deal has parties debating language that was strengthened from a previous draft about the reduction of fossil fuels, as delegates try to salvage U.N. Climate Change Conference talks. The world’s largest economies, fossil fuel producers, poor countries and island states have all been at odds over … Read more
COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber speaks to the media at the U.N. climate conference on Dec. 10, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The draft text for a COP28 climate deal that does not include the phasing out of fossil fuels has … Read more
By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway DUBAI (Reuters) – With the COP28 climate talks entering crunch time on Monday, U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell urged countries to come together to reach a final deal for the summit – where they were facing off over whether to call for an end to fossil fuels. … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — This year’s climate talks should “mark the beginning of the end” of fossil fuels the European Commissioner for Climate Action said on Wednesday as the United Nations summit wrapped up its first week. Wopke Hoekstra told a news conference on the last day of the technical phase of the talks … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SEOUL — South Korea is rolling out a new “carbon-free” campaign at this year’s COP28 that it says will reposition Seoul as a global leader in decarbonization. But climate experts and advocates say the plan, which promotes some fossil fuel power generation, merely masks South Korea’s dependence … Read more
Sultan Al-Jaber, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and president of COP28, speaks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber is facing a backlash over his claim that there is “no science” behind calls … Read more