Maria Ressa, Jeffrey Sachs and Craig Newmark amongst speakers to address Trust Conference 2021
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, and an Afghan reporter who fled the Taliban, Zahra Joya, will speak alongside a distinguished line-up of speakers that includes world-renowned Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs and founder of craigslist, philanthropist Craig Newmark at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s flagship annual forum Trust Conference on 17 and 18 November.
China rebuffs UK criticism over coal move after climate summit
Developing nations' energy security must be guaranteed, says China's foreign ministry, after it backed India in weakening language on stopping coal use at COP26 talks
UAE, opening oil and gas summit, says no unplugging from hydrocarbons
The oil and gas industry needs to invest over $600 billion a year until 2030 to meet expected demand, says minister for UAE, which will host the UN climate summit in 2023
Sinking Tuvalu laments watered down U.N. Glasgow climate pact
The island nation's foreign minister says Saturday's deal should have called for phasing out, rather than phasing down, of coal use, a late change spurred by coal-dependent India and China
After smoke drifts east, U.S. Congress eyes spending billions to curb wildfire threat
More than half of the $27 billion in forestry funding in the social spending bill, which the House aims to pass this week, would go toward 'hazardous fuels reduction projects'
ANALYSIS-Was Glasgow pact a win for climate? Time will tell
The U.N. climate summit was meant to secure a deal to give the world a chance to avert the worst impacts of climate change by capping global warming at 1.5C - it met that bar, but barely
U.N. climate agreement clinched after late drama over coal
The two-week conference in Glasgow landed a global agreement that aimed at least to keep alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5C and was the first to call for a reduction in fossil fuels
Climate 'loss and damage' earns recognition but little action in COP26 deal
Efforts to create a new fund to help with climate-change-driven "loss and damage" fail as the U.N. talks close, but the problem rises up the global agenda
Argument over coal phase-out holds up UN climate conference deal
New draft retains call for phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies, but differences remain
EXPLAINER: What did vulnerable countries fight for at the COP26 climate summit?
As the U.N. climate talks ran overtime, vulnerable countries pushed for progress on issues from "loss and damage" to phasing out fossil fuels - but didn't get all they wanted