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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 12:17:19 PM
It's a desert, where little grows. It's a climate conference, where water is scarce inside buildings and out, lines are long, tempers are short, meetings go late and above all progress comes in one-drop drips.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 11:38:15 AM
United Nations climate talks ran into extra time on Saturday with little sign of a breakthrough, as negotiations remain hung up on key issues including funds for the loss and damage suffered by poorer vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 10:54:34 AM
John Kerry, the top U.S. envoy at this year's U.N. climate talks in Egypt, has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson said late Friday night, another potential setback for negotiations that were already going into overtime with no result in sight.
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COP27
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Focus
11/18/2022 1:09:22 PM
One of the world's first cities came close to being wiped off the map during tragic floods this summer in Pakistan. Though Mohenjo Daro survived, it has become a symbol of the threat global warming poses to humanity's cultural heritage.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 12:46:30 PM
UN climate talks entered their last day Friday with rich and developing nations deadlocked over creating a fund for countries devastated by the impacts of global warming -- and the EU warning its offer was final.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 12:31:51 PM
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released a COP27 draft negotiating text early Friday morning to be hashed out by the countries’ delegates in the remaining few hours of the annual climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 11:50:00 AM
Extra efforts are needed in the remaining hours of the 27th session of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP) to respond to the urgent and legitimate demand for adequate funding step up for Loss and Damage, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said on Thursday.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/17/2022 10:41:14 PM
UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Mahmoud Mohieldin lauded the launch of the Low Carbon Transport for Urban Sustainability (LOTUS) initiative, which aims to decarbonize the transportation sector.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 10:40:50 PM
The Arab region needs more than $570 billion by 2030 to reinforce its adaptation to climate change, said a press release issued by the Beirut-based UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/17/2022 9:12:40 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities launched on Thursday a campaign to promote sustainable tourism to the country in tandem with the 27th UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) taking place at the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/17/2022 6:00:08 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged divided nations holding climate talks in Egypt to agree on an "ambitious" deal to cover losses suffered by vulnerable nations hammered by natural disasters.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 4:51:50 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said launched on Thursday the Friends of Greening National Investment Plans for Africa and Developing Countries Initiative that capitalises on the success stories of partners in tackling the impacts of climate change.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 4:49:36 PM
Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River - a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/17/2022 4:43:28 PM
UN climate talks were deadlocked Thursday over calls to create a special fund to cover the losses suffered by vulnerable nations hit by natural disasters, raising the risk that negotiations could collapse.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/17/2022 4:43:00 PM
From reducing carbon emissions to preserving biodiversity and protecting endangered species, Saudi Arabia is working on multiple fronts to mitigate the effects of climate change
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COP27
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Focus
11/17/2022 4:07:27 PM
Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when it comes to global warming's thorniest diplomatic issue this year, reparations for climate disasters.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/17/2022 3:41:00 PM
“Formulating an agenda that satisfies 197 parties was not an easy job but it was done. We have a good record in terms of items that have been included," Cecilia Kinuthia Njenga, director of the Intergovernmental Process and Collective Progress at UNFCCC, told Al-Ahram Weekly.
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COP27
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To Know
11/17/2022 12:48:40 PM
A Russian billionaire under sanctions by the United States and Europe over his alleged ties to the Kremlin said Wednesday that he was not surprised by protests against his country at this year's U.N. climate talks, but insisted that Russia wants to remain engaged on the issue of global warming because it deeply affects the nation.
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COP27
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To Know
11/17/2022 11:06:32 AM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday backed a proposal by Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to hold a 2025 United Nations climate conference in the Amazon rainforest.
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COP27
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Focus
11/17/2022 10:39:22 AM
Below the turquoise waters off the coast of Australia is one of the world's natural wonders, an underwater rainbow jungle teeming with life that scientists say is showing some of the clearest signs yet of climate change.
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