Opening the UN’s mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Simon Stiell urged governments to focus on implementing climate commitments, warning that fossil fuel dependence was driving…
South Africa plans to leverage its G20 presidency to highlight the barriers to AI readiness and opportunities facing developing countries
The number of heritage sites at risk has grown to 62 from 35 in 2014 — nearly double the number from just three years ago
Scientists and green campaigners say the peatlands hold gigatonnes of carbon — a stockpile that poses a threat to hopes of limiting global warming.
2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said Monday.
Climate change is real and it has already impacted Fiji — only urgent action is needed, said Fiji’s Prime Minister at UN climate talks this week.
The gathering of world leaders at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on December 5 is timely.
International action on climate change looks likely to drift over the next two years as politicians waver on tougher carbon caps.
At the UN Climate Change Convention talks held in Bonn recently 192 countries met to discuss long-term cooperative action to address climate change.
Barack Obama’s negotiators make their debut at UN climate talks on Sunday, but many nations have rowed back on plans, focusing instead on the economy.
Governments broadly support tough 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions but are split on how to share out the reductions.
When some multinational companies dump chemicals into the sea, they call it ”ocean fertilisation”. This practice is near the top of the agenda at the United Nations conference on…
The United Nations urged far tougher action to fight climate change at a 166-nation climate conference on Monday, the first after reports warning of growing damage from droughts,…
Greenhouse-gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter. In an annual update on global-warming…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday certain ”major powers” should play a bigger role in the world body, but declined to name favourites for any new…
Computer users need a special removal tool to rid their computers of the Nyxem computer worm. The tool seeks out and neutralises the worm, says Anja Hartmann, of the German…
German internet security experts declared victory on Monday in a bid to head off a computer virus before it spreads through millions of personal computers worldwide. Sober.P is…
A man in Germany received a tax bill for the equivalent of -million after filing a tax return for income of just 000 dollars, a court heard on Tuesday. The bill was the result of…
Germany has nominated fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s Memory of the World list to preserve the…
Violinists from Bonn’s Beethoven Orchestra have decided not to go ahead with their groundbreaking legal action in which they were suing for higher wages because they felt they…
