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Opinion
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12/12/2025 1:37:52 PM
PARIS – It has been ten years since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to no more than 1.5°C.
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World
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International
11/24/2025 5:07:07 PM
Nearly 200 nations on Saturday pushed through a modest deal at the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Amazon region of host country Brazil.
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World
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Region
11/16/2025 2:16:55 PM
Turkey wants to host next year's UN climate change talks and is prepared to do so independently if consensus on co-presidency cannot be reached, a Turkish diplomatic source told AFP Sunday.
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World
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International
11/9/2025 5:34:44 PM
The Taliban government expressed its disappointment Sunday that it was not invited to the COP30 conference despite Afghanistan being one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change.
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World
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International
11/6/2025 11:06:03 AM
World leaders meet Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States shunning the gathering.
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World
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International
10/28/2025 1:27:26 PM
The UN estimated Tuesday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10-percent emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it was unable to provide a robust global overview after most countries failed to submit their plans on time.
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World
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International
9/23/2025 7:36:57 PM
US President Donald Trump blasted the United Nations and Europe on his return to the world body Tuesday, warning that Western countries were "going to hell" because of migration and calling climate change a "con job."
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World
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International
9/17/2025 11:29:42 AM
Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released.
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World
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International
9/4/2025 1:59:32 PM
Human-caused climate change made the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled deadly wildfires in Spain and Portugal last month 40 times more likely, researchers said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
8/7/2025 6:42:54 PM
US President Donald Trump is turning his back on international cooperation, notably on the climate crisis and through the US withdrawal from UNESCO.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/19/2025 7:32:00 PM
Iraq could lose 90 per cent of its water resources by 2035 if current trends persist alongside accelerating climate change.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
7/17/2025 11:52:40 AM
Egypt has been pioneering the propagation of mangrove forests to fight climate change and develop its blue and green economy.
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Sports
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World
7/16/2025 1:36:43 PM
Soccer had a fierce reckoning with heat at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States — a sweltering preview of what players and fans may face when the U.S. co-hosts the World Cup with Mexico and Canada next summer.
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World
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International
7/1/2025 11:40:32 AM
Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe.
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World
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International
6/30/2025 12:56:11 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to "rev up the engine of development" at an aid conference in Spain on Monday, at a time when US-led cuts are jeopardising the fight against poverty and climate change.
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World
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International
6/28/2025 11:04:46 PM
Southern Europeans braced Saturday for their first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world's fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
6/21/2025 6:33:00 PM
The Third United Nations Ocean Conference held in the French coastal city of Nice last week highlighted the environmental and other threats facing the world’s seas and oceans.
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Opinion
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6/3/2025 11:30:40 AM
For too long, biodiversity in the Middle East has been overlooked—seen either as a victim of climate change or a luxury issue secondary to more immediate economic or security concerns. But a quiet transformation is underway, and the region is beginning to recognize that nature is not just a backdrop. It is a foundation for long-term resilience—economic, environmental, and even diplomatic.
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World
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International
5/1/2025 6:02:58 PM
Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Wednesday, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.
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Egypt
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Society
3/27/2025 9:40:51 PM
Suzy El-Geneidy, Deputy Chief Editor of Al-Ahram Al-Arabi magazine, received the Cairo Climate Talks (CCT) Excellence Award for Outstanding Journalistic Coverage of Climate Change Issues and Coverage of the 2024 Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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