Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Climate protesters have interrupted a gala dinner for Republicans in Windsor celebrating Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK. Campaigners from Fossil…
Shorouk Express “These estimates are likely conservative,” said the authors of the study, Sehrish Usman of the University of Mannheim, and Miles Parker and Mathilde Vallat, economists at the European Central Bank. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent as greenhouse gases warm the world. In 2024, natural disasters, including catastrophic flooding in Spain, destroyed…
Shorouk Express Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email Some 25,000 climate have descended on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the second African Climate Summit (ACS2) – in the face of Donald Trump’s hostile stance towards both climate…
Shorouk Express Fact check: In December 2020, a group of big players in international finance launched the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. They committed their firms to “supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or earlier, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C”. They planned to do this by…
Shorouk Express Claim to be verified: “Climate policies are too costly,” is a reiterated mantra in the context of political discourse in Europe aimed at framing the ecological transition as burdensome and undesirable. They carry an even greater burden for society than the consequences of inaction, with associated claims of “elitism” and a strict focus…
Shorouk Express Indeed, just as the CEOs were pouring out their woes to the Commission president, a few floors below, Teresa Ribera, commissioner for a clean industrial transition, was presenting the bloc’s climate targets for 2040. Von der Leyen’s center-right European People’s Party is widely accused of watering down the EU’s environmental agenda in order…
Shorouk Express One European diplomat said their country had been quoted €1 million to rent rooms for a negotiating team of 20 people. The April presentation from Brazil said that the cruise ship cabins would range from $700 to $1,300 per night. The diplomat said that in Bonn last week, however, the COP30 presidency promised…
Shorouk Express BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 18. The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Technical Supervision of Kyrgyzstan, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched a new project aimed at strengthening the capacity of national financial institutions to access and effectively utilize green and climate finance, Trend reports via the UNDP. The…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 8 June 2025 11:24 (UTC +04:00) Photo: IEA/Facebook Multilateral climate funds (MCFs) play a modest but vital role in international public finance, channeling highly concessional resources to support climate goals in emerging and developing economies (EMDEs), according to the International Energy Agency’s latest outlook. Access to paid information…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 30. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is enhancing climate partnership with Kazakhstan, said Vice President of the EIB Kyriacos Kakouris, Trend reports. Speaking at a panel discussion on “The Innovation Challenge: Making Climate Action Work For All” at the Astana International Forum 2025, the vice president noted that the visit…
