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UK PM urges ‘determined push’ for climate change deal

Glasgow, Nov 10 (AFP/APP):British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said a UN climate change summit had made progress towards halting runaway global warming but more was needed to seal a deal. “We’ve moved the ball a long way down the pitch, but we’re stuck […]

Draft COP26 text urges nations to speed up emissions goals in 2022

Glasgow, Nov 10 (AFP/APP):A draft text at the COP26 climate summit urged countries on Wednesday to revisit their emissions cutting goals by 2022, three years ahead of schedule, after data showed current plans were far from limiting heating to 1.5C. After 10 days of technical […]

Africa’s climate crisis receiving minimal attention at COP 26: campaigners

NAIROBI, Nov. 9 (Xinhua/APP) –:The COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference underway in Glasgow, Scotland is yet to come up with concrete steps to advance Africa’s green agenda, campaigners said on Tuesday. Mithika Mwenda, executive director of Nairobi-based green lobby, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance […]

Illegal constructions put adverse impacts on environment, people’s health

By M. Salman Raza MULTAN, Nov 07 (APP):The unbridled construction activities to meet needs of the growing populations in the city lead to have adverse consequences on governance systems, environment, people’s health, transportation services and overall citizens’ well-being. Environmentalists sound warning that un-approved commercial or […]

Illegal constructions put adverse impacts on environment, people’s health

By M. Salman Raza MULTAN, Nov 07 (APP):The unbridled construction activities to meet needs of the growing populations in the city lead to have adverse consequences on governance systems, environment, people’s health, transportation services and overall citizens’ well-being. Environmentalists sound warning that un-approved commercial or […]

Climate crisis could give nuclear energy a second wind

Glasgow, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):For more than two decades, promoters and purveyors of nuclear energy felt shunned at UN climate change conferences. At the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, however, they have been welcomed with open arms, the UN’s top nuclear regulator told AFP. The spectre […]

Residents, activists cry foul over stinking garbage in Tunisia’s Sfax

Sfax, Tunisia, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Residents and activists in Tunisia’s industrial hub of Sfax are warning of an “environmental catastrophe” as mountains of uncollected garbage litter the streets of the Mediterranean port city. “The situation is catastrophic,” Mohamed Boujalabane, a resident of Sfax, Tunisia’s second city […]

Protesters demand climate action in global rally

Glasgow, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Tens of thousands of protesters braved rain and wind in Glasgow Saturday to take part in worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure of crunch UN climate talks to act fast enough to tame global warming. Dozens of events are […]

How climate summit pledges may, or may not, affect heating

Glasgow, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):After a week of negotiations filled with grand announcements from nations promising to accelerate the decline of fossil fuels, where do the pledges put projected emissions halfway through the COP26 climate summit? Countries came in to the UN-led negotiations with their latest […]

Thunberg labels COP26 ‘failure’ as youth demand action

Glasgow, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a “failure” during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding quicker action from leaders to address the emergency. Thunberg said pledges from some nations made during COP26 to […]

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