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World leaders gathered in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday for a family photograph at this year’s annual UN climate conference. The moment came at the start of the COP27 summit where experts have warned that the climate crisis has arrived and the world is not acting…

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

Contentious opening to UN climate conference as delegates struggle to reach agreement on discussion of loss and damage

A look at who will – and who may not – be at the Sharm el-Sheikh climate summit this month

Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions aren’t enough to avoid catastrophic global warming, with the planet on track to heat up between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times, according to a new report from the United Nations Framework Convention on…

International climate pledges remain far off track to limit rising temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a report released by the United Nations Wednesday, less than two weeks ahead of high-stakes negotiations to tackle global warming.

United Nations says governments need to set new goals and make deeper cuts to limit temperature rises to 1.5C

The United Nations official now in charge of the fight to curb climate change has a personal stake in the battle to reduce emissions

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Simon Stiell from the Caribbean island nation of Grenada as the new U.N. climate chief, calling him, “a true champion” of creative approaches to tackling the global climate crisis