UK PM Johnson speaks to Biden, discusses COVID-19 and climate change
Johnson's office said prime minister invited Biden to the U.N. climate change conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow next year
G20 countries still backing fossil fuels through COVID-19 response
Despite repeated pledges to end subsidies for oil, gas and coal, G20 governments continue to fund fossil fuels, with the COVID-19 crisis doing little to change that, says new report
From Asia to Africa, refugees hope Biden win could help rebuild lives
Joe Biden has promised to raise the quota of refugees the U.S. accepts after numbers plummeted under Trump
UK's Prince Charles says firms must prioritise climate change fight
The world is 'literally at the last hour' in the battle to halt climate change, Charles told a summit for financial investors
Flooding displaces hundreds of people around Kenya's Lake Naivasha
In many parts of East Africa, heavy rains have ravaged crops and rising waters from lakes and rivers have destroyed shoreline communities
Global voluntary carbon market must grow 15 fold to meet Paris goals - report
Corporate-backed taskforce says global decarbonization will require a transparent, verifiable and robust voluntary carbon market
WIDER IMAGE-Scientists watch as China remote glaciers melt at 'shocking' pace
The Tibetan plateau, known as the world's Third Pole for the amount of ice long locked in the high-altitude wilderness, has seen rising temperatures since the 1950s
Biden, Canada's Trudeau discuss coronavirus, climate change
Biden said he looked forward to working closely with Canada to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and combat climate change
As Cape Town races to save water, risk of 'Day Zero' drought seen rising
In the worst-case scenario, extreme droughts could be about 100 times more likely than they were early last century
U.N. envoy Carney backs annual investor votes on company climate plans
U.N. climate finance envoy Mark Carney backed a push to make companies give investors an annual vote on their climate change strategies