United Nations Climate Talks

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to U.S. President Donald Trump at a United Nations summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the world was not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis, calling for "global behavioural change" at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

In a first of its kind symbolic effort by India at the UN, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a 50KW 'Gandhi Solar Park' next week during his visit to the United Nations, a gesture that highlights India's willingness to go beyond the talk on climate change.

US President Donald Trump's pick to be United Nations ambassador acknowledged on Wednesday that climate change is a threat and pledged to recuse herself from any UN talks on the issue involving coal because her husband is a coal billionaire.

The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned today as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.

The threat posed to humanity by our warming planet has "never been worse", the United Nations' climate chief said Sunday at the opening of crucial talks in Poland.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swarajon Saturday slammed Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, accusing it of harbouring terrorists and "masking malevolence with duplicity".

Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only nation in the world opting to stay outside the landmark treaty.

In a takedown of Pakistan for its non-stop support to terrorism, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday dismissed Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's accusations of violating human rights, telling the United Nations General Assembly, "Look who is talking". "We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas our neighbour Pakistan se...

The U.S. State Department has officially informed the United Nations it will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in a document issued on Friday, but left the door open to re-engaging if the terms improved for the United States.

The renewable energy boom is not limited to industrialised countries as emerging economies like India have invested more in such technologies than developed world, US Secretary of State John Kerry today said.

The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the UN said Monday, warning of calamitous consequences if the march of global warming cannot be halted.

Thousands of Moroccans and foreigners marched on Marrakesh Sunday to demand "climate justice" from global envoys gathered for UN talks on staving off worst-case-scenario global warming.

Efforts to build a new global deal to tackle climate change were for many years criticised for moving at a glacial pace.

French President Francois Hollande urged ministers gathered in Paris Saturday for UN climate talks, to take the "decisive" step in adopting what he termed an "historic" pact to rein in global warming.

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to U.S. President Donald Trump at a United Nations summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the world was not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis, calling for "global behavioural change" at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

In a first of its kind symbolic effort by India at the UN, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a 50KW 'Gandhi Solar Park' next week during his visit to the United Nations, a gesture that highlights India's willingness to go beyond the talk on climate change.

US President Donald Trump's pick to be United Nations ambassador acknowledged on Wednesday that climate change is a threat and pledged to recuse herself from any UN talks on the issue involving coal because her husband is a coal billionaire.

The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned today as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.

The threat posed to humanity by our warming planet has "never been worse", the United Nations' climate chief said Sunday at the opening of crucial talks in Poland.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swarajon Saturday slammed Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, accusing it of harbouring terrorists and "masking malevolence with duplicity".

Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only nation in the world opting to stay outside the landmark treaty.

In a takedown of Pakistan for its non-stop support to terrorism, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday dismissed Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's accusations of violating human rights, telling the United Nations General Assembly, "Look who is talking". "We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas our neighbour Pakistan se...

The U.S. State Department has officially informed the United Nations it will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in a document issued on Friday, but left the door open to re-engaging if the terms improved for the United States.

The renewable energy boom is not limited to industrialised countries as emerging economies like India have invested more in such technologies than developed world, US Secretary of State John Kerry today said.

The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the UN said Monday, warning of calamitous consequences if the march of global warming cannot be halted.

Thousands of Moroccans and foreigners marched on Marrakesh Sunday to demand "climate justice" from global envoys gathered for UN talks on staving off worst-case-scenario global warming.

Efforts to build a new global deal to tackle climate change were for many years criticised for moving at a glacial pace.

French President Francois Hollande urged ministers gathered in Paris Saturday for UN climate talks, to take the "decisive" step in adopting what he termed an "historic" pact to rein in global warming.