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21  may     05h53
UN votes to support strong climate action despite US opposition
   The UN General Assembly’s non-binding resolution followed an advisory opinion calling countries’ failure to protect the planet from climate change a...
15  may     07h07
Over 100 killed as deadly storms lash India’s Uttar Pradesh
   Lightning, fierce winds and torrential rain tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees and caused widespread destruction across the country’s most...
04  may     11h04
France urges global action on methane emissions at G7 conference
   France held a conference to reduce methane emissions ahead of the UN’s November COP31 summit. On Monday, an International Energy Agency report found ...
30  april     15h07
Dozens of countries discuss ending ’suicidal’ fossil fuels
   The first international conference dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels concluded Wednesday in Colombia, which hosted 57 countries in Santa Marta.
29  april     05h30
France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050
   Dozens of nations gathered in Colombia to hold the first-ever talks on how to transition away from fossil fuels. France published a ’roadmap’ that...
24  april     12h17
Tokyo, global capital of the suit-and-tie, is encouraging wearing shorts to reduce reliance on air conditioning
   Last year, Japan sweltered through its hottest summer since records began in 1898, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. This summer, they...
22  april     10h26
Plan for ’Pacific ashtray’ in Fiji amounts to ’waste colonialism,’ UN ambassador says
   A fashion entrepreneur behind the Paris-born Kookai label and an Australian billionaire want to build a port and waste incinerator near Fiji’s...
20  april     12h06
Extreme weather a growing threat to elections and democracy
   At least 26 elections and referendums have been postponed in the last decade due to natural disasters, according to a report by Stockholm-based...
31  march     14h52
Japan issues ’huge earthquake’ warning after 7.5 magnitude tremor
   The first quake hit at 4:53 pm local time on Monday in Pacific waters off northern Iwate prefecture and the tremor was strong enough to shake large...
30  march     19h10
Jean-Marc Jancovici: ’Rising gas prices are an appetizer for what’s ahead if decarbonization fails’
   The head of The Shift Project think tank, which has released a ’Robust Plan for the French Economy,’ says that citizens have yet to fully grasp the...
23  march     06h52
The Shift Project unveils 20 urgent actions to drive the energy transition
   One year before the 2027 French presidential election, the think tank chaired by Jean-Marc Jancovici unveils a new plan for decarbonizing the French...
17  march     06h46
France’s emissions cuts slow again in 2025, throwing climate targets off track
   Government-commissioned data published Wednesday showed that while France’s overall emissions are still in decline, the rate of their decline had...
23  february     08h32
France condemns effort to delay major IPCC climate report
   The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes reports every five to seven years whose findings on the science of global warming are the...
19  february     06h27
Adrien Bilal, winner of the 2026 Best Young Economist Award: ’Climate change will cost 50% of GDP by 2100’
   The winner of the 27th edition of the prize, created in 2000 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Economistes, has developed a model that better captures...
17  february     16h28
Earth trapped record amount of heat in 2025, UN report says
   The 11 hottest years ever recorded were all between 2015 and 2025, the United Nations’ WMO weather and climate agency confirmed in its flagship State...
   
Brazil’s new climate plan prioritizes stopping all deforestation
   President Lula is pledging to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030 and is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 67% compared with 2005...
   
Rescuers search for missing after deluge kills at least 30 in Brazil
   A river burst its banks and streets became raging currents of brown water in the state of Minas Gerais after the overnight downpour in a region that...
   
New York’s Mayor Mamdani orders citywide travel ban as major storm hits US
   Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the city’s traffic network shut down, saying, ’New York City has not faced a storm of this scale in the last decade.’...
   
Eight of nine skiers missing in California avalanche found dead
   Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said that rescuers ’are still looking for one of the members at this time,’ but warned that ’extreme weather’ from...
   
Avalanche in the French Alps kills two off-piste skiers
   The latest deaths bring the number of people killed in avalanches in France to 27 since the start of the season.
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