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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/10/2022 4:01:00 PM
Even before the official opening of the UN COP27 Climate Conference at Sharm El-Sheikh on 6 November, a major breakthrough had been achieved after lengthy negotiations by placing the thorny issue of “loss and damage” on the agenda of the most important world gathering on climate change for the first time.
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World
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International
11/10/2022 3:53:11 PM
US President Joe Biden returns to the world stage with a spring in his step after midterm elections he sees proving that, in the global contest between democracy and autocracy, good guys don't always come last.
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COP27
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Focus
11/10/2022 3:08:43 PM
The climate change generation is saying officials are talking too much, listening too little and acting even less. And they are fed up.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 3:00:03 PM
The war-inspired natural gas boom is undermining already insufficient efforts to limit future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree, a new report says.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 1:12:47 PM
Where the mother of all rivers meets the Atlantic Ocean in coastal Brazil, it's not a single channel, instead, it braids around 230 kilometres (142 miles) of islands including the Bailique Archipelago.
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Egypt
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Health
11/10/2022 12:44:05 PM
On the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Ahram Online spoke to Pelin Incesu, AstraZeneca’s area vice president for the Middle East and Africa, about the company’s role in accelerating the delivery of net zero, patient-centric healthcare.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/10/2022 11:44:02 AM
Last year, climate activists who focus on disability rights scored a major victory at the United Nations climate change conference known as COP. They gained official status as a caucus recognized by the U.N. Secretariat, the conference organizer.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 11:28:50 AM
Mongolia is ramping up efforts to export coal to energy-hungry China, a government official told AFP, despite global efforts to end the use of the polluting fossil fuel.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 10:16:23 AM
Major automakers will need to sell about half the number of petrol and diesel vehicles than under current projections to be aligned with key climate goals, Greenpeace said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/10/2022 10:02:00 AM
On the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), being held in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh from 6-18 November, the Youth for Climate Caravan organised the event People’s Voices for Climate.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/10/2022 9:38:00 AM
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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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 10:28:36 PM
Pakistan's foreign minister repeated calls for compensation for the unprecedented destruction caused to the country by this summer's flooding, saying debt relief could be a mechanism for doing so.
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COP27
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To Know
11/9/2022 8:48:00 PM
A number of activists and politicians sent a petition on Wednesday to the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres calling on him to intervene to stop the misuse of the 27th UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) by some international groups and organisations to ‘serve goals that have nothing to do with environmental issues.’
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 8:26:27 PM
Mohamed Al-Jasser, President of the Islamic Development Bank Group, said on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh that climate change continues to pose a major threat to social and economic development and to the general well-being of people and societies, noting that the bank's collective goal is to promote a just, inclusive and equitable transition.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:41:44 PM
Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni accused Europe on Wednesday of "brazen double standards" towards Africa in its climate and energy policies.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:40:40 PM
The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh city saw the launch of the UN-backed Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) on Tuesday with the goal of raising African carbon credits.
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Egypt
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Politics
11/9/2022 5:14:13 PM
Egyptian MPs and major political parties teamed up on Wednesday to condemn what they called the politicisation of the agenda of human rights during the COP 27 climate change summit which is being held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:06:14 PM
A detailed inventory of the top known sources of greenhouse gas emitters launched by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday found that the top 14 individual polluters are all gas and oil fields and their associated facilities, despite their emissions being ``significantly underreported.''
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 3:21:34 PM
Providing efficient and fair financing is the key to the actual implementation of climate action called for by the COP27, said UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Mahmoud Mohieldin.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 2:03:27 PM
EU member states have come to an agreement with MEPs on how to share out the effort of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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