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Loss and damage through climate change

Rising temperatures are leading to increasingly extreme weather events, most impacting countries that have contributed least to warming. They have long called for a designated fund to compensate for loss and damage.

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Desertification drives Kenyan herdsmen to camels

Climate change has degraded 75% of the Earth's land, the UN warns. Kenyan herders are already trading cattle for camels.

Fang Li, Country Director of World Resources Institute China speaks in China Pavilion during a South-South Cooperation project conference during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan

COP29 negotiators urge China to pay its climate bill

With developing nations needing trillions of dollars in climate finance funds, China is being asked to contribute more.

COP29: What is holding back negotiations so far?

As the UN climate summit enters its second week, concern is mounting over slow progress.

Jennifer Morgan speaks at the COP29 conference in Baku

Germany pushing for 'fair, ambitious' climate finance deal

Climate envoy Jennifer Morgan told DW that despite the snap election, Germany will stand by its climate commitments.

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Is climate finance reaching the most vulnerable?

Wealthy countries need to double the amount of money used to help poorer nations cope with a warming world, say experts.

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US: Wildfire near Los Angeles forces thousands to flee

A massive wildfire is spreading across southern California, fanned by the powerful Santa Ana winds.

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Extreme heat a death threat to young people in Mexico

In Mexico, heat overwhelmingly kills young people, a new study finds. Global warming could make this worse.

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Can we survive if the world's glaciers melt?

If all the world's glaciers melted, what would that mean for nature and for human civilization?

A man walks along a damaged street after the passage of Hurricane Eta in La Lima, Cortes, Honduras

What's been said at the landmark ICJ climate hearings?

Nations are asking the International Court of Justice to oblige big polluters to keep their promises to cut emissions.

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Could G20 plan lift 500 million people out of poverty?

Brazil will soon hand over the G20 presidency to South Africa, with a new initiative aimed at tackling poverty.

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Pakistan's surprise solar surge shocks experts and grid

Pakistan's solar energy surge has given residents the power to survive blackouts, but it threatens to disrupt the grid.

People on boats collect recyclable plastics from the heavily polluted Citarum River at Batujajar in Bandung, West Java

Can a global treaty clean up plastic waste?

The final round of negotiations for a global plastics treaty will look to rapidly cut surging plastic pollution.

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