A New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) was finally clinched at COP29 in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A little-known but highly toxic greenhouse gas known as tropospheric ozone harms human health and damages crops and forests, clean air experts told COP29.
The climate crisis is worsening and yet fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high, according to a report released during COP29.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for early warning systems to provide protection from extreme heat.
Researchers said the rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere is driving “increasingly dangerous global warming,” a stark warning on day three of COP29.
Air pollution causes 7–8 million premature deaths annually, largely from chronic diseases, the WHO says in a COP29 special report.
The COP29 talks kicked off in Baku on Monday with a UN call to tackle the spiralling climate crisis.
New research says that the health risk to mothers and newborns posed by global warming is a “blindspot” in the majority of national climate plans. It must not be sidelined by COP29 negotiators.
The news this week that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will not be present at COP29 in Baku is an unsettling development just days before the talks open.
For more than 50 years, the health and safety hazards of a petrochemicals complex in northern Spain have been worrying locals. Despite that, and the unease of such communities globally, UN talks this week failed to clinch a plastics treaty.