The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

The island states of the Pacific – from large Papua New Guinea to the smaller island state of Tuvalu – find themselves in a newly influential position as the west and China battle for their strategic backing.

In many of the states with the nation’s most aggressive climate goals, officials are investing millions of dollars to save the power source that was long the No. 1 target of many environmental activists: nuclear plants.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the president-designate of the upcoming UN climate change conference, received on Thursday a phone call from the United States Special Climate Envoy, John Kerry. Shoukry told Kerry his country is looking forward to high-level US participation in the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022,…

Parliamentary delegations from 60 countries concluded on Thursday activities of the eighth Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians, which was held in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt’s South Sinai province. They underscored the importance of supporting developing countries to protect the environment and promote green investment. They also called…

President Joe Biden will convene a virtual meeting of some of the world's largest economies to discuss the next steps on climate change

‘They are the most genetically isolated polar bears in the world’

Billions of people are likely to be displaced by climate change. But calling them ‘climate refugees’ oversimplifies the complex reasons people flee their homes.

The largest displacements in the context of disasters in 2021 occurred in China (6.0 million), the Philippines (5.7 million) and India (4.9 million).

Few signboards foretell the global issues of our time better than what is addressed at the annual meetings of the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) in Singapore. After a pandemic-induced two-year hiatus, the most recent SLD covered the gamut on the main stage, from the United States-China geostrategic competition and military modernisation…

A new study predicts the changing climate will provide increased opportunities for the spread of novel viruses.

The world’s coastlines are at the forefront of climate change. That’s because they’re constantly changing, and respond quickly to changes in climate. They’re particularly important because around 70% of the world’s population live within 100km of the coast, and 90% of the world’s trade passes through ports on the coast.…