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United Nations officials on Monday called for urgent and immediate action to address global problems such as climate change, nuclear threats and human rights during the opening session of its ...
Today, the United Nations offers a kind of decision memo to leaders around the world on how to address climate change. Rebecca Hersher from NPR's climate desk is here. Good morning.
Our world is undergoing a radical transformation. This is the unmistakable message of the latest report on Monday from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
President Joe Biden on Friday used a short visit to the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt to tell the world the United States was ready to take back its leadership role on fighting a ...
The United Nations’ latest report on climate change puts more emphasis on near-term pollution cuts after longterm goals to reach net-zero emissions left room for greenwashing.
In response to a new report on climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said Monday that its findings are proof ...
COP26 is the annual United Nations meeting of the 197 countries that have agreed to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, originally adopted in 1992.
Climate change: United Nations' Antonio Guterres wants an 'ambition supernova' "Inch by inch progress will not do," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
COP27, a United Nations climate summit, will take place in Egypt this November. There’s a lot on the line at the event for the countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Next week, representatives from nearly 200 countries will converge in Dubai as part of a United Nations climate summit known as COP28. There, diplomats will discuss whether and how to step up ...