Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, chair of COP27, reads the nine-page Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan, the document that concluded the climate summit on Sunday Nov. 20, to an exhausted ...

WWF urges world leaders to urgently shift from ambition to action, as the goal of limiting warming to 1.5oC is slipping away After another year of climate devastation around the world, WWF calls for ...

As COP27 today wraps in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is sounding the alarm on behalf of refugees and displaced people for whom the climate emergency is piling crisis upon ...

For the first time, global leaders agreed to establish a “loss and damage” fund, paid for by wealthy countries, to support low-income countries in the Global South that have fallen victim to climate ...

The 27th UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, introduced a number of new initiatives, including SHIP—the Sharm el Sheikh Implementation Plan intended to guide climate action going ...

Saskia E. Werners works with United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). She is grateful to have received research grants in support of her research on climate ...

Negotiators from over 33 African countries are meeting in Nairobi to reflect on COP27 outcomes and develop a common African position on climate action pertaining to agriculture and gender for COP28.

COPs are a marathon, not a sprint. During the first week, country negotiators set the parameters for the serious, and often exhausting, horse-trading that begins this week, when ministers fly in, with ...