As the driest summer in Seattle's record books ended, trees across the city were sounding silent alarms.
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Under the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016, countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and work together to adapt to the effects of climate change. To act on this, and codify their individual commitments, each country submitted its so-called Nationally Determined Contribution.
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She has pedaled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change.
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Arianna Giuliodori, secretary general at World Farmers' Organisation (WFO), spoke to Ahram Online about the importance of empowering farmers across the globe to reduce carbon emission, secure food production and make a healthier planet.
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Improving cold chains in the production and distribution of food in the developing world is "essential" in fighting climate change and world hunger, said a UN report issued Saturday.
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Al-Ahram’s Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya magazine’s Arabic language website has launched a special supplement for climate change to coincide with the ongoing 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) taking place in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh city from 6 to 18 November.
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Yordan Diaz Gonzales pulled weeds from his fields with a tractor until Cuba's summer rainy season turned them into foot-deep red mud.
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Despite Republicans' gains in the US midterm elections this week, they are unlikely to knock President Joe Biden's existing climate policies off course, experts say, highlighting the importance of individual state regulations.
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Countries representing more than 50 percent of global GDP have agreed to set out sector-specific priority actions to decarbonise power, road transport, steel, hydrogen and agriculture sectors by the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), which is set to be held in the United Arab Emirates in November of next year.
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The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to reduce methane emissions, targeting the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as President Joe Biden has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump.
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From a distance, the endless landscape of solar panels stretching toward the horizon can easily be mistaken for crops nearing harvest. But here in the desert in southern Egypt, workers have been cultivating another precious commodity: electricity.
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Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.
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The Ukraine war has shown the heavy toll military conflict takes not just on people but also on the planet, say experts at the UN climate summit in Egypt.
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The climate change generation is saying officials are talking too much, listening too little and acting even less. And they are fed up.
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"COP27 may be the last hope for starting the actual implementation of climate action," warned UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt Mahmoud Mohieldin.
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The Benban solar power park, which is located in the "Jewel of the Nile" Aswan in Upper Egypt, is one of the largest solar power parks in the world.
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Nine countries including Britain, Germany, the United States and Japan joined an international alliance Tuesday at the UN COP27 climate summit, to encourage the development of offshore wind power.
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Developing and emerging countries -- excluding China -- need investments well beyond $2 trillion annually by 2030 if the world is to stop the global warming juggernaut and cope with its impacts, according to an UN-backed report released Tuesday.
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Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN climate change high level champion for Egypt, said that financing climate action in the developing countries -- especially in Africa -- should be fair and efficient.
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Despite Vietnam's solar boom and ambitious climate targets, the fast-growing economy is struggling to quit dirty energy - leaving one of the world's biggest coal power programmes largely intact.
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