Global warming on backburner; vexed financing deal sees light at COP29
Global representatives at a climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reductions — a move developing nations say falls way.
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Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29
UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.
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Famine in Gaza Strip is ‘imminent,’ likelihood ‘substantial’: FRC
An international body of technical experts in the field of food security has issued an alert about an “imminent” and “substantial” likelihood of.
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WHO activates emergency health network in mpox-hit nations for first time
The World Health Organization has for the first time activated its emergency health network in eight countries affected by the mpox outbreak, including.
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Global heat to cripple economies, wreck billions of lives: UN official says
Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions.
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Ozone layer may fully recover by 2040 if current policies prevail
The Earth’s ozone layer may recover fully by 2040, and five years later over the Arctic, if the current policies restricting the production.
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Six UN health workers die in Israeli airstrikes on school in Gaza Strip
Six staff members working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees were killed in Gaza during Israeli airstrikes on.
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SDG targets in danger as paychecks shrink globally, ILO says
Falling global wages, possibly driven by automation and artificial intelligence, will slow the pace of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the 2030.
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UNICEF issues emergency tender to purchase mpox vaccines
United Nations Children’s Fund, the world's largest single vaccine buyer, has issued an emergency tender to buy mpox vaccines to fight the rapid.
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US drug regulator blocks Regeneron’s blood cancer therapy
The US regulatory body has rejected Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,’s blood cancer drug as it did not meet the pre-approval standards of the agency.