• U.N. summit seeks to fix food inequalities, but draws fire

    U.N. summit seeks to fix food inequalities, but draws fire

    Sep 23, 2021 10:43 PM EDT

    ... posing new problems for agriculture, even as producing, processing, packaging and distributing food accounts for one-third of the manmade heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted. "Food systems can and must play a leading role in addressing all of these challenges," he ...

  • U.N. health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality

    U.N. health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality

    Sep 23, 2021 06:31 PM EDT

    ... based on improved pollution measurement systems and exposure assessments, leading to the update. The revisions also highlight another environmental concern that parallels widespread worries about global warming and the impact of burning fossil fuels. For countries around the world to meet the standards in the new WHO guidance "is going ...

  • EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants

    EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants

    Sep 23, 2021 02:13 PM EDT

    ... passed last year and is intended to decrease U.S. production and use of HFCs by 85% over the next 15 years, part of a global phaseout designed to slow global warming. The administration also is taking steps to crack down on imports of HFCs, greenhouse gases that are thousands ...

  • WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 3

    WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 3

    Sep 23, 2021 12:57 AM EDT

    ... Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations. The leaders and ministers pushing for more U.N. action said warming is making ...

  • China, U.S. unveil separate big steps to fight climate change

    China, U.S. unveil separate big steps to fight climate change

    Sep 22, 2021 03:31 PM EDT

    ... plan to double financial aid to poorer nations to $11.4 billion by 2024 so those countries could switch to cleaner energy and cope with global warming’s worsening impacts. That puts rich nations close to within reach of its long-promised but not realized goal of $100 billion a ...

  • WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 2

    WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 2

    Sep 21, 2021 11:58 PM EDT

    ... whoever did the most damage to nature, the atmosphere and water, "and whoever has wildly exploited natural resources" should make the greatest contribution to fighting global warming. "Unlike the past, this time no one can afford the luxury to say, 'I'm powerful so I will not pay the bill ...

  • As Biden touts American democracy, here are the issues allies want U.S. to deliver on

    As Biden touts American democracy, here are the issues allies want U.S. to deliver on

    Sep 21, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    Nick Schifrin : Well, those themes really point to what you heard from Antonio Guterres there at the end, that the world wants, indeed, needs unity over COVID and climate. Without drastic change, global warming will become irreversible, what Guterres called today a hellscape. And only 4 percent of Africa is ...

  • WATCH: United Nations General Assembly 2021 — Day 1

    WATCH: United Nations General Assembly 2021 — Day 1

    Sep 20, 2021 09:10 PM EDT

    ... hydroxychloroquine, without naming the drug. Brazil’s government continued promoting the antimalarial long after scientists roundly dismissed it as ineffective against COVID-19. Alarm over global warming was a common theme in speeches. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, president of the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives, said further rising ...

  • Biden, world leaders try to hammer out next steps on climate

    Biden, world leaders try to hammer out next steps on climate

    Sep 17, 2021 03:58 PM EDT

    ... Glasgow as a last chance for the world to commit to cutting use of fossil fuels fast enough to stave off the worse scenarios of global warming. “We have to bring to Glasgow our highest possible ambitions,” Biden said. "Those that have not yet done so, time is running out ...

  • ‘Rapid’ reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed to curb climate change, U.N. chief says

    ‘Rapid’ reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed to curb climate change, U.N. chief says

    Sep 16, 2021 01:35 PM EDT

    GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations called Thursday for "immediate, rapid and large-scale" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming and avert climate disaster. Ahead of the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting next week, Antonio Guterres warned governments that climate change is proceeding faster ...