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COP21

Women’s role vital in addressing climate change: Experts

Women leaders discuss why women are the key to transforming society and helping communities become more climate resilient by Sana Jamal ISLAMABAD -  Nowhere are the effects of climate change being felt as severely as in the developing world and women primarily are...

World leaders sign Paris Climate Agreement to end fossil fuels

Agreement will be legally binding and aims to keep global warming ‘well below’ 2 degrees PARIS (France) -  Some two hundred leading nations unanimously embraced a plan that will leave most of the world’s fossil fuels unburned. It is the...

World leaders due in Paris for COP21 Climate Change Summit

PARIS (France) - Around 150 world leaders are expected to descend on Paris for the U.N. climate change summit that starts Monday in the French capital with the aim of reaching a landmark global deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The leaders...

More than 600,000 people killed due to weather disasters in last 2 decades

Weather-related disasters have become more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, a new UN report claimed on Monday, urging nations to take serious action on climate change. Around 90 percent of disasters in the last...

Climate Change termed catalyst for conflicts

ISLAMABAD - The upcoming United Nations Summit (COP21) on climate can be a catalyst for change for the future of human civilization and it is time to rise to the occasion to address the multifaceted and manifold challenges. This...

China, France agree on climate compliance checks

China and France have agreed to include compliance checks in the international climate change agreement that will be negotiated in Paris in December. French President Francois Hollande who is in China to secure China's commitment to the COP21 conference called...

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Keir Starmer becomes UK’s new prime minister as Labour wins UK general election 2024

UK Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has become prime minister of UK after a ceremonial meeting with King Charles III on July 5, 2024. Starmer has led Labour to secure a landslide victory in the UK’s 2024 general election to end 14 years of Conservative rule.