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The power utility warned that the system would take some time to recover because maintenance work had been postponed because of the unprotected strike

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

Reducing the carbon footprint of farming will take more than some individual action

But SA’s delegation leader Derek Hanekom believes everyone wants to see a deal reached

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