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President-designate of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and British MP Alok Sharma called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday during which they discussed the India-UK collaboration on climate change issues in the run up to the crucial meet.

Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped towards a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures devastating people and the natural world.

COP 14 UNCCD: Prime Minister Modi speaking at a world climate change crisis meeting in Delhi today reiterated India's decision to impose a ban on single-use plastic, declaring "time has come for even the world to say goodbye to single-use plastic"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning spoke at the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). He announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares by 2030.

India will formally sign the Paris agreement, adopted by more than 190 countries at last year's climate change summit in the French capital, at the UN Headquarters in New York later this month.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's recent nuclear weapon test was designed to boost his domestic legitimacy ahead of a rare ruling party conference in May that could formalise market-based economic experiments in the isolated country, analysts say.

Decades of diplomatic efforts to tackle climate change culminated in Paris on Saturday with a common vision for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and throwing a lifeline to vulnerable countries.

Northern China choked under some of the worst smog this year today, with levels in Beijing soaring to 22 times healthy limits, triggering the city's second-highest pollution alert on the eve of global climate change talks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Paris for the 12-day UN climate change summit to face what is being seen as one of the big diplomatic challenges for India. Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties, or the COP21. The meet hopes to bring all on board and develop a firm policy for ...

China's President Xi Jinping will bring no new concessions to the negotiating table when he attends key UN climate change talks in Paris next week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed regret today over reported remarks by US Secretary of State John Kerry that the Paris climate summit will not deliver a binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions.

A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday.

Environment and energy ministers have made "progress" in three days of talks to seek political convergence ahead of a UN climate summit, host France said today, but much hard work remains.

President-designate of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and British MP Alok Sharma called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday during which they discussed the India-UK collaboration on climate change issues in the run up to the crucial meet.

Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped towards a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures devastating people and the natural world.

COP 14 UNCCD: Prime Minister Modi speaking at a world climate change crisis meeting in Delhi today reiterated India's decision to impose a ban on single-use plastic, declaring "time has come for even the world to say goodbye to single-use plastic"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning spoke at the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). He announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares by 2030.

India will formally sign the Paris agreement, adopted by more than 190 countries at last year's climate change summit in the French capital, at the UN Headquarters in New York later this month.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's recent nuclear weapon test was designed to boost his domestic legitimacy ahead of a rare ruling party conference in May that could formalise market-based economic experiments in the isolated country, analysts say.

Decades of diplomatic efforts to tackle climate change culminated in Paris on Saturday with a common vision for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and throwing a lifeline to vulnerable countries.

Northern China choked under some of the worst smog this year today, with levels in Beijing soaring to 22 times healthy limits, triggering the city's second-highest pollution alert on the eve of global climate change talks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Paris for the 12-day UN climate change summit to face what is being seen as one of the big diplomatic challenges for India. Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties, or the COP21. The meet hopes to bring all on board and develop a firm policy for ...

China's President Xi Jinping will bring no new concessions to the negotiating table when he attends key UN climate change talks in Paris next week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed regret today over reported remarks by US Secretary of State John Kerry that the Paris climate summit will not deliver a binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions.

A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday.

Environment and energy ministers have made "progress" in three days of talks to seek political convergence ahead of a UN climate summit, host France said today, but much hard work remains.