The four Geneva Conventions are fundamental treaties in international humanitarian law, and establish rules to protect people in wartime. Adopted in Geneva in 1949, the conventions aim to limit ...

African policymakers and international partners meeting at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP29 on Tuesday highlighted the urgent crisis posed by lack of access to clean cooking, a ...

The 29th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 29, taking ...

This year's U.N. climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, marks the world's 29th leadership gathering to confront global ...

On the second day of the climate conference, leaders of African, Central Asian and island nations discussed the already very ...

Referencing the concept of “climate finance,” Pope Francis said in a message to the U.N. climate summit on Wednesday that ...

The “Conference of the Parties” (COP) is the global decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

On 8 November 2024 the Green Climate Fund secretariat submitted an addendum to the Fund’s report to the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-ninth session. The text is reproduced in the annex as ...

As delegates from nearly 200 countries gather for a major international summit on climate change, they're confronting a new era of uncertainty for the U.S. under a second Trump administration.

Many capitalists see climate as their next big payday. Finance will be the dominant topic of discussion, negotiation and deal ...

After opening in Azerbaijan on Monday, COP29 has until November 22 to reach an agreement on funding the 'green' transition of ...

Developing countries need at least $1 trillion per year by the end of the decade to cope with climate change, economists told ...