COP29: New climate finance deal, urban challenges in spotlight at conference

21 november 2024 - 05:33:02 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As intense round-the-clock COP29 climate talks enter their final stretch in Baku, delegates on Wednesday are eagerly awaiting updates on the [...] Full text...

UN, Brazil launch new initiative to counter climate disinformation

20 november 2024 - 05:20:07 MA

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PANA) - As the dangers posed by climate change become increasingly evident worldwide, the need for reliable and accurate information on [...] Full text...

‘Breaking point’ reached on climate, while ‘outdated’ global system needs urgent reform: Guterres

20 november 2024 - 05:09:12 MA

Rio de Janiero, Brazil (PANA) - In a powerful appeal to the world’s largest economies during the G20 Summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday [...] Full text...

COP29: Boost from Rio as G20 leaders back scaling up climate finance from ‘billions to trillions’

19 november 2024 - 17:21:19 MA

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PANA) - The high-level diplomatic push for climate action shifted southward on Tuesday as G20 leaders meeting in Rio sent a [...] Full text...

COP29: ‘Cut the theatrics’: UN climate chief tells negotiators to focus on solutions as talks enter final week

18 november 2024 - 14:03:49 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As COP29 climate talks in Baku enter their final week, the UN climate chief told negotiators on Monday to “cut the [...] Full text...

COP29: Putting people at the centre of climate solutions: World Bank Blog By Mamta Murthi and Juergen Voegele

18 november 2024 - 08:36:22 AR

Luanda, Angola (PANA) -  Climate change is an urgent human crisis.  Since 2022, 400 million students worldwide have faced school closures due to extreme weather, [...] Full text...

COP29: Will conference deliver the trillions needed to tackle the man-made climate crisis?

17 november 2024 - 04:52:20 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The latest round of UN climate negotiations, COP29, opened this past Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, following a year that broke multiple [...] Full text...

COP29: Digital tech and AI can boost climate action, but curbing the sector’s emissions is key

17 november 2024 - 04:51:12 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Leaders in technology and the environment at COP29 in Baku endorsed on Saturday a declaration pledging to use digital technologies to [...] Full text...

COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP

16 november 2024 - 07:14:56 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The UN environment agency chief warned the COP29 climate summit in Baku on Friday that methane emissions must come down – [...] Full text...

COP29: ‘You have every right to be angry’ Guterres tells youth advocates frustrated over lack of climate action

15 november 2024 - 06:28:20 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - As negotiations over how to tackle climate change head into their fifth day in Baku, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed [...] Full text...

COP29: UNHCR amplifies voices of displaced on frontlines of climate change

15 november 2024 - 05:57:50 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday launched the Refugees for Climate Action initiative in a bid to mobilise the world’s forcibly displaced [...] Full text...

COP29: ‘Now is the time to fast-track, not backtrack’ on the path to net-zero

14 november 2024 - 16:50:50 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Meeting on Thursday with non-governmental entities in Baku for the COP29 climate talks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the crucial role [...] Full text...

COP29: Energy transition must not trigger a ‘stampede of greed’ that crushes the poor

13 november 2024 - 12:09:09 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Climate talks at COP29 in Baku on Wednesday turned to the pressing issue of how to manage the demand for minerals [...] Full text...

South African delegation participates in COP29

13 november 2024 - 08:59:31 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A high-level South African delegation is attending COP29 which is underway in Baku, Azerbaijan until 22 November.The conference is [...] Full text...

COP29: Multilateral development banks to boost climate finance

13 november 2024 - 08:19:45 AR

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) on Tuesday issued a joint statement at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for [...] Full text...

COP29: World Bank expands lifeline to small States hit by disasters

13 november 2024 - 08:16:53 AR

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - The World Bank Group has expanded its lifeline to countries struggling to rebuild from disasters, allowing small, vulnerable states to postpone [...] Full text...

COP29: Climate change is growing threat to people fleeing war, violence and persecution

13 november 2024 - 05:48:12 MA

Baku, Azerbainan (PANA) - In a new report presented at COP29 on Tuesday, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said climate change has become a growing [...] Full text...

COP29: Guterres urges countries to ‘get serious’ on loss and damage funding

13 november 2024 - 05:47:56 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for countries to step up contributions to a financial mechanism to assist developing countries [...] Full text...

COP29: ‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns climate summit

12 november 2024 - 12:48:27 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that leaders gathered in Baku for the COP29 Climate Action Summit must take immediate steps [...] Full text...

African cities strive to make roads less perilous for pedestrians and cyclists: UNEP Feature Article

12 november 2024 - 07:10:38 AR

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) -  For Patience Ataliba, who lives in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, commuting was once a harrowing affair. The 23-year-old student and [...] Full text...

COP29: Push for agreement on new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’

11 november 2024 - 13:13:55 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told negotiators at COP29 in [...] Full text...

World Urban Forum focuses on housing, community support in war-torn cities

08 november 2024 - 07:22:40 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Delegates discussed a complicated urban development issue at the World Urban Forum on Tuesday: What is needed to safeguard residents and [...] Full text...

Record heat persists as WMO calls for urgent services and investment boost

08 november 2024 - 06:32:35 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is experiencing unprecedented warming with 2024 poised to become the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record in [...] Full text...

Deadly weather events show cost of climate inaction

08 november 2024 - 06:04:47 MA

Baku, Azerbailan (PANA) - Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of [...] Full text...

Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit

07 november 2024 - 12:44:46 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Thursday, [...] Full text...

Why pastoralism matters more than ever for the Sahel and West Africa’s future: World Bank open editorial by Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani, President of Mauritania, Mahamat Idriss Déby, President of Chad and Ousmane Diagana, World Bank Vice-President for West and Central Africa

07 november 2024 - 09:12:09 AR

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Today, more than ever, we must turn our attention to pastoralism across the Sahel and West Africa. Stretching from Mauritania and [...] Full text...

COP29: Leaders must commit to fair climate financing and fully phasing out fossil fuels

07 november 2024 - 07:48:37 MA

Baku, Azerbaijan (PANA) - Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making [...] Full text...

Prince William visits President Ramaphosa in Cape Town

06 november 2024 - 08:18:31 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday hosted the Prince of Wales at his official residence in Cape Town.The [...] Full text...

World Urban Forum in Cairo hears calls for youth-led solutions to urban challenges

06 november 2024 - 05:48:59 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Young people gathered in Cairo for the World Urban Forum led calls on Tuesday for action to ease the housing crisis [...] Full text...

'Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040'

06 november 2024 - 05:26:16 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - More than two billion people currently living in cities could be exposed to an additional temperature increase of at least 0.5 [...] Full text...

EC publishes 2023 international climate finance figures

05 november 2024 - 13:07:39 AR

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - In 2023, the European Union and its 27 member states contributed €28.6 billion in climate finance from public sources and mobilised [...] Full text...

Tackling lead pollution to unlock development potential: World Bank Blog By Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Senior Managing Director

05 november 2024 - 08:01:21 AR

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Lead is in materials all around us, often unseen. From factories, mines and spices to being in our water supply pipes, [...] Full text...

Global UN forum opens in Cairo to rethink urban development

05 november 2024 - 05:36:30 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Thousands of delegates on Monday joined United Nations representatives gathered in Cairo to kick off the twelfth edition of the World [...] Full text...

COP 29: Richer countries must commit to pay at COP29 as climate change forcibly displaces millions across Africa

04 november 2024 - 11:31:56 MA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - With millions of people already displaced by climate change disasters in Africa, the richer countries most responsible for global warming must [...] Full text...

Prince William to host 2024 Earthshot Prize in Cape Town

04 november 2024 - 11:06:23 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – UK's Prince William is due to arrive in Cape Town on Monday ahead of the fourth annual Earthshot Prize on [...] Full text...

COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted

04 november 2024 - 04:40:38 MA

Cali, Colombia (PANA) - The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded at the weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever [...] Full text...

Some 1.2 billion people at high risk from climate change worldwide - World Bank

01 november 2024 - 07:22:57 MA

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Some 1.2 billion people face life-changing risks through exposure to at least one critical climate hazard, such as heatwaves, flooding, [...] Full text...

COP 16: People want action on plastic pollution that’s choking us: Guterres

31 october 2024 - 04:55:45 MA

Cali, Colombia (PANA) - Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” [...] Full text...

COP16: Guterres urges world to ‘choose wisely…make peace with nature’

30 october 2024 - 06:32:52 AR

Cali, Colombia (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for decisive action to restore harmony with nature, warning that environmental crises are pushing [...] Full text...

Angola hosts inaugural national climate outlook forum

29 october 2024 - 13:17:08 AR

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Climate Services Centre in collaboration with the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of Angola [...] Full text...

UN official urges more ambitious, credible climate action plans

29 october 2024 - 12:45:02 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Proposed actions by countries to mitigate the worsening impacts of climate change “fall miles short of what is needed,” according to [...] Full text...

Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency

28 october 2024 - 12:45:25 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent [...] Full text...

Climate and Environment: Climate crunch time is here,’ new UN report warns

25 october 2024 - 06:09:26 AR

Cali, Colombia (PANA) - Annual greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, and urgent action must be taken to prevent catastrophic spikes in temperature [...] Full text...

South Africa participates in biological diversity conference

22 october 2024 - 09:11:16 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa is participating in the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological [...] Full text...

Burkina Faso formally accepts WTO agreement on fisheries subsidies

18 october 2024 - 12:57:45 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burkina Faso Burkina Faso has formally accepted the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which prohibits subsidies for illegal, unreported [...] Full text...

Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns

16 october 2024 - 21:28:57 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, according to a [...] Full text...

South Africa represented at 9th Africa Water Week

16 october 2024 - 09:04:46 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, is participating in the 9th Africa Water Week and the 7th [...] Full text...

More than 6 million people starving in southern Africa because of 'historic drought'

16 october 2024 - 04:32:45 MA

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Nearly six-and-a-half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an “historic drought” linked to last year’s El Niño, UN [...] Full text...

UN climate change conference: EU calls for efforts to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach

15 october 2024 - 06:31:43 AR

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday approved conclusions that will serve as the EU’s general negotiating position for COP29, which will take [...] Full text...

UN Biodiversity Convention: EU reaffirms global pledge to protect a third of the planet by 2030

14 october 2024 - 16:38:47 AR

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday approved conclusions in view of the Conference of Parties on the Convention on biological diversity (COP16) [...] Full text...