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Panama, Chile for tackling climate change

Published on: September 8, 2021
14:48

Buenos Aires, Sept 8 (Prensa Latina) Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo on Wednesday ratified his country's commitment to the planet and the reduction of global warming, when speaking at the Latin American Summit on this topic.

President Biden calls for bold actions on climate change

Published on: September 8, 2021
08:02

Washington, Sep 8 (Prensa Latina) President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for actions on climate change as he paid a visit to New Jersey, one of the nine states hit by Hurricane Ida.

UN chief warns about global temperature rise

Published on: September 7, 2021
07:31

United Nations, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) The planet is dangerously close to reaching the internationally agreed threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of temperature increase, the UN Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres warned on Monday.

China calls US to strengthen climate cooperation

Published on: September 2, 2021
09:08

Beijing, Sep 2 (Prensa Latina) China on Thursday called the United States to strengthen climate cooperation in the Paris Agreement and together provide solutions to the problems affecting the planet, as a result of the impact of increasingly extreme phenomena.

US envoy for climate change visits China again

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:52

Beijing, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) China has informed on Tuesday that US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry is visiting the country again to explore with his local counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, the possibilities of cooperation in this issue.

Madagascar is prone to the first famine due to climate change

Published on: August 31, 2021
02:15

Antananarivo, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) Madagascar is going through its worst drought in the last 40 years and is prone to suffer a famine of catastrophic proportions, according to the report of a specialized UN agency circulated here on Monday.

New Italian monitoring of Alpine glaciers in climate emergency

Published on: August 20, 2021
10:31

Rome, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) The environmental association Legambiente on Friday has announced the start of a new monitoring in the state of 13 Alpine glaciers and the Calderone glacier, threatened by a climate emergency.

UNICEF warns about the impact of climate change on children

Published on: August 20, 2021
07:38

United Nations, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Nearly half of the world´s children – roughly 2.2 billion- live in one of 33 countries classified as 'extremely high risk' due to climate change impacts, according to a new report from UNICEF.

Global warming and extreme weather to impact LatAm and the Caribbean

Published on: August 18, 2021
07:19

United Nations, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Latin America and the Caribbean will be one of the regions most affected by global warming in the near future if current trends in climate change continue, a UN agency warned.

UNICEF calls for urgent action on climate change

Published on: August 10, 2021
07:11

United Nations, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore on Tuesday called for urgent action to shield children from the alarming trends of climate change in the world.

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