The Latest Breaking News from Dubai

Violence against women and children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, remains a taboo subject in the policy debates attended by international delegates at COP28, the latest round of the UN climate negotiations in Dubai. However, the connections between climate change and gender-based violence, including human trafficking, are real and already…

Stella McCartney, Shantnu & Nikhil, and other designers are proving that sustainability and profitability can go hand-in-hand. At COP28, fashion is a reminder of the power of individual choices to address global issues. Stella McCartney, Shantnu & Nikhil, and other designers are proving sustainability and profitability can co-exist.

The "phase-out" of fossil fuels was deleted on Monday from a long-awaited draft of the UN Cop28's flagship global stocktake and replaced with watered-down language, a day before the climate talks in Dubai were due to end.

At the UN Climate Change Conference, Bihar's initiatives in soil conservation, climate-resilient agriculture, agriculture road map, and organic agriculture have been praised. Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, highlighted the State's initiatives, such as the Soil Health Card scheme, soil testing, soil fertility mapping, and Climate Resilient…

As delegates discuss the climate crisis in Dubai for COP28, the dazzling variety of life found on Earth hangs in the balance.

Simon Stiell urged countries to preserve the "highest ambition" to check warming at no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

A new draft climate agreement proposed Monday by the Emirati presidency of UN COP28 talks called for reducing the production and consumption of fossil fuels but it no longer mentioned a "phase-out".

When U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Antarctica in November to highlight a planet in peril to set the stage for global climate talks in Dubai, he went to see an accelerating ice melt, not penguins.

The UAE, site of this year's UN climate talks, forbids protests, something that has happened at previous summits. In Dubai, protests are happened but they are highly restricted.