Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/15/2022 11:38:15 PM
Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus are at the forefront of combatting the negative effects of climate change in the Mediterranean and of taking regional action.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/15/2022 11:24:55 PM
The four-pillar Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace initiative was launched at the COP27 this week in a bid to create synergies between climate change and peace-building.
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COP27
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Focus
11/15/2022 11:17:21 PM
Under the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016, countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and work together to adapt to the effects of climate change. To act on this, and codify their individual commitments, each country submitted its so-called Nationally Determined Contribution.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 10:29:00 PM
Ahram Online is providing daily live update coverage of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) taking place in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh from 6-18 November.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/15/2022 9:39:31 PM
The greening of Sharm El-Sheikh for the COP27 should give us all hope, writes Alessandro Fracassetti
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 7:05:19 PM
Turkey on Tuesday unveiled at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh a revised plan for cutting its carbon emissions that was immediately criticised by analysts as insufficiently ambitious.
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COP27
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To Know
11/15/2022 6:28:31 PM
Students from the Al-Ahram Establishment’s Creators Hub launched earlier in the month an easy-to-use application called “COP27 Egypt,” for participants in the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 6:19:15 PM
Campaigners on Tuesday urged the COP27 summit to fight disinformation that undermines efforts to limit deadly global warming, as a survey showed millions of people believe climate change falsehoods.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
11/15/2022 6:05:08 PM
How can each of us rationalise our water use in order to save on the country’s consumption, asks Ameera Fouad
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COP27
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Climate change
11/15/2022 4:33:42 PM
COP27 entered its final week Monday with rich carbon polluters and developing nations at loggerheads over how to speed up and fund reductions in emissions to slow global warming.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 4:22:14 PM
Monday’s Gender Day at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh featured invaluable panels gathering women leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers to address gender gaps and find the best solutions to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on women.
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COP27
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To Know
11/15/2022 4:08:00 PM
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt, in a further hint of improving relations between the world's top two polluters a day after a meeting between their leaders.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 3:33:29 PM
Drawing attention to the half of the world’s population that is estimated to live under water stress by 2025, the Egyptian presidency of COP27 launched Monday the Action for Water Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe) initiative to bolster water security in the face of climate change.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/15/2022 3:31:05 PM
In an interview with Ahram Online on the sidelines of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Valvanera Ulargui, director of the Spanish Office for Climate Change, said that “The fundamental issue for us is maintain trust and continue advancing to be able to comply in time with the matters agreed to at Paris in 2015 and at Glasgow in 2021.”
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/15/2022 12:09:26 PM
The European Union vowed at UN climate talks on Tuesday that it will strengthen its carbon-cutting commitment, insisting that the bloc was not "backtracking" in the face of the Ukraine war.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/15/2022 11:18:41 AM
The world is getting hotter and more crowded and the two issues are connected, but not quite as much as people might think, experts say.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/14/2022 10:30:00 PM
Ahram Online is providing daily live update coverage of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) taking place in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh from 6-18 November.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/14/2022 8:39:26 PM
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has for the first time said he would give away most of his $124 billion fortune to charity, but warned that doing so effectively will be hard.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/14/2022 7:08:27 PM
Women have leadership qualities and the ability to solve problems, which makes their participation in development and climate action indispensable, said UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Mahmoud Mohieldin.
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Egypt
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Climate change
11/14/2022 6:42:04 PM
Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam announced the launch of the Action on Water, Adaptation, and Resilience (AWARe) international initiative.
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