World leaders unanimously agreed to develop a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution by the end of 2024
Other steps to fight climate change include improved reporting, monitoring and laws
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Environmentalists say Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw from the Paris agreement three years ago made it easier for countries such Australia, Saudi Arabia and Brazil to weaken their own ambitions
If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale
World Economic Forum warns that little action is being taken on climate change as the world splinters
The climate conference delivered a rulebook but nations failed to pledge to do more to cut emissions
The targets will require new cars sold in 2030 to emit 37.5% less carbon dioxide on average compared to 2021 levels
Nearly 200 countries overcame divisions, producing 156-page rule book for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement
But SA’s delegation leader Derek Hanekom believes everyone wants to see a deal reached
Reducing the carbon footprint of farming will take more than some individual action
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The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at ‘well under’ two degrees Celsius
Change is happening at such a rate that animals, plants and ecosystems cannot evolve fast enough to survive
‘To make destroying the environment even easier, Bolsonaro pledged to merge the environment and agriculture ministries’
New calculations by the UN’s top science panel sharply reduce the real-world potential for drawing CO2 out of the air
Of hundreds of climate models in 2015 projecting a low-carbon future, only two or three aimed for a 1.5℃ global warming cap
Talks foundered over the key issue of how efforts to limit climate change are funded and how contributions are reported.
When Nicolas Hulot agreed to join Macron’s government, campaigners dared to hope for a radical shift towards greener policies
The group’s stance is in line with the rise of global populism, which is rooted in falsehood
Many will risk losing their largest financial asset — their homes. And municipalities will forfeit huge amounts of revenue from property taxes
The continent has vital stakes in how Americans deal with three of these: climate change, foreign assistance, and immigration.
"How poetic, how meta, how annoyingly terrific. As a young filmmaker myself, I may be having an existential crisis. Staving off the jealousy".