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UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts

The past decade has been confirmed the warmest ever recorded, continuing an alarming 30-year trend that the UN weather chief said on Tuesday is “unequivocally driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.”

Internally displaced people rest at a camp near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza.

UN chief calls on Israel to ‘spare civilians from more suffering’ in Gaza

Hillary Clinton (centre) and other panelists pose together following a discussion on gender and climate.

COP28: Women and climate advocates driving forward change together

Young boys walk through a section of a flooded residential area in Belet Weyne, Somalia.

World News in Brief: Somalia floods, Sudan cholera update, genocide prevention

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Nepal-based civil society group Digo Bikas Institute holds an action on loss and damage during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

COP28: Bring the vulnerable to ‘front of the line’ for climate funding

4 December 2023

COP28: Women and climate advocates driving forward change together

4 December 2023

The burning of fossil fuels is driving climate change.

COP28: Methane pledge by the ‘giants behind the climate crisis’ falls short, says Guterres

3 December 2023

Suriname is the most forested country in the world, but its pristine rainforests are being threatened, among others, by mining for gold, bauxite and kaolin.

COP28: Extraction of minerals needed for green energy must be ‘sustainable and just’, says Guterres

2 December 2023

A boy waiting for his school bus in the Songinokhairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where air pollution levels are dangerously high.

Tackling health impacts of climate change and scaling up digital climate action in the spotlight at COP28

2 December 2023

Attendees at the Indonesia Pavilion during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

COP28: As ‘humanity’s fate hangs in the balance’, UN chief calls for urgent action to prevent planetary crash

1 December 2023

View of the iconic Al Wasl Dome at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the UN climate conference COP28.

COP28 talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund

30 November 2023

Climate change is contributing to drought conditions across the world.

Explainer: What’s COP28 and why is it important?

28 November 2023

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COP28: Bring the vulnerable to ‘front of the line’ for climate funding

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A girl rests in a camp for displaced persons in Gaza.

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Ms. Achrekar, spoke with UN News as UNAIDS launched its latest report on Tuesday, Let Communities Lead.

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Refugee activist and journalist Abdullahi Mire (left), the Global Laureate of the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, distributes books to refugee students at a secondary school in Dadaab, Kenya.

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Harmful gasses continue to be released into the atmosphere across the world.

‘No end in sight’ to rising greenhouse gas emissions: WMO

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Village health worker Timothy Mbene Masereka.

Fighting gender-based violence door-to-door with support of Ugandan men

Women A Ugandan man, who is employed as a village health worker, has told the UN how men and boys must play a critical role in eliminating gender-based violence to change their communities for the better.

Missile strikes have caused widespread destruction in Gaza.

First Person: ‘Severe shock’ as Gaza neighbourhoods are erased

An invaluable mobile app helping Kenyan pastoralists beat the drought.

Explainer: How AI helps combat climate change

Angela Muhindo in Kasese, western Uganda.

Ugandan woman advocates for her rights after ‘life of pain’

(from left) Paul Goodloe, meteorologist, The Weather Channel; Jake Dubbins, co-founder, Conscious Advertising Network, member of Climate Action Against Disinformation; Vanessa Nakate, climate activist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; Charlotte Scaddan, Senio…

Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’

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A farmer works in a rice field in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (1982)

Veteran UN photographer who was ‘witness to troubled world’ leaves behind a priceless legacy

The former head of UN Photo, John Isaac, who photographed the work of the United Nations during three tempestuous, but also hopeful, decades at the end of the 20th Century has died aged 80.

Rafah crossing, aid ‘lifeline’ into Gaza

UN Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to the Rafah crossing on Friday.

Ukraine: Snapshots of a war

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, which is a World Heritage Historic Centre has been damaged by shelling.

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Palestinian women mourning the loss of a family member at Al-Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, southern the Gaza Strip.

Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue

Human Rights The resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore the need for the violence to end and a long-term political solution between Palestinians and Israelis to be found, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Sunday.

Malaria and other diseases were on the rise after floods earlier in the year in Sindh province, Pakistan.

COP28: The climate crisis is also a health crisis

Climate and Environment Health has made it onto the agenda of a UN climate conference, and health advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Sunday said the topic was long overdue for discussion as climate inaction is costing lives and impacting health every single day.

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