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The Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, June 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Methane from tropical wetlands is surging, threatening climate plans

A massive surge in wetlands methane — unaccounted for by national emissions plans and undercounted in scientific models — could raise the pressure on governments to make deeper cuts from their...

Members of the Indigenous People Association stage a protest to demand action on climate change, holding big head cut-outs of world leaders US President Joe Biden, China's President Xi Jinping, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on the waters of Botafogo Bay, ahead of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil November 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Tuane Fernandes

G20 talks in Rio reach breakthrough on climate finance: sources

Climate activists at COP29. Photo: TBS

COP29: Countries, activists upset as climate finance negotiations end first week at an impasse

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Civil Society demand $1.5 trillion under new climate finance goal for 2025-30 period

A general view during the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

6th Day of COP29: Progress on climate finance, but consensus still out of reach

One of the speakers addresses an event, titled “Untold Story of Coastal People of Bangladesh: Sandwip Perspective”, at the COP29 venue in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday, 15 November, 2024. Photo: TBS

Urgent action needed to protect Bangladesh’s coastal communities: Speakers at COP29

Bangladeshi CSOs protest against the gas industry during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan on 15 November 2024. Photo: Courtesy

Bangladesh civil society demands fossil fuel phase-out

Global environmental activists protest against the gas industry during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan 15 November 2024. Photo: Reuters

Fragile countries make $20 billion climate finance push at COP29, letter says

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Bangladesh faces per capita climate debt burden of $79.61: CDRI 2024

Reef fish swim above recovering coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia 25 October 2019. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

Nearly half of tropical coral species face extinction: Report

A general view during the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

COP29: Why are countries fighting over climate finance?

A general view of debris and sludge filled Barranco del Poyo ravine as it passes through the town of Catarroja, which was seriously affected due to severe flooding, in Valencia, Spain, November 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Eva Manez

Spanish flood-hit towns brace for another storm

A drone view shows forest fire devastation amid smoke in the Amazon, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil September 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Phot

Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024: report