The 36th Saudi relief plane, operated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), arrived on Wednesday in Egypt carrying 24 tons of food and medical supplies to be transported to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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The eighth Saudi relief plane, operated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), arrived at El Arish International Airport Egypt on Friday, carrying three ambulances out of 20 scheduled to arrive successively, in preparation (...)
Young climate advocates are preparing to tell leaders at a UN summit next month that they are out of options: they must deliver now on ambitious climate action that pushes the world faster towards sustainability and empowers younger generations with (...)
The European Union is not hiding its disappointment with the climate deal struck at COP27, criticizing its lack of ambition and warning of an increasingly distant possibility to keep global warming under the 1.5 °C target.
"We have treated some of (...)
After days of intense negotiations that stretched into early Sunday morning in Sharm El-Sheikh, countries at the UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, reached agreement on an outcome that established a funding mechanism to compensate (...)
United Nations climate talks ran into extra time on Saturday with little sign of a breakthrough, as negotiations remain hung up on key issues including funds for the loss and damage suffered by poorer vulnerable countries hit by extreme (...)
Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks — the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather.
According to the Maldives' Environment (...)
COP27 is scheduled to wrap up in 24 hours but countries remain divided on several significant issues including 'loss and damage', the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday, urging parties to rise to the urgency of the moment and agree on real (...)
Brazil is back, president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told rapturous crowds at the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt.
Walking into a room of supporters singing his name, Lula promised to restore the Amazon rainforest and chase down climate (...)
It's day 9 of COP27 and we're firmly in the second half of the UN climate conference. Negotiations are still slow but there was a glimmer of hope Wednesday as the US and China agreed to resume cooperation on climate issues.
Draft texts are also (...)
On 'Women and Water' Day at COP27, the power of women as key drivers of climate solutions, and the crucial impact that the climate crisis is having on our water supply took centerstage in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Meanwhile, the negotiations on the (...)
Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world's food, yet they only receive 1.7 percent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.
This sentiment echoed (...)
A key target to stop climate change raising global temperatures is under threat at a UN summit.
Climate change talks have been trying to limit the average rise in temperatures to 1.5C.
But at talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, there (...)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member and Climate Affairs Envoy Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir has met with the Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), (...)
In the maze of COP27, people have been flocking to one pavilion in particular: the space dedicated to children and youth.
If you're looking for a bit of light from the summit, the hive of activity from young people is an unusually bright spot.
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King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) launched the second edition of the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) Index at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, during an event entitled "Measuring Performance and (...)
Sharm El Sheikh Sunday hosted a panel discussion titled "The importance of climate action", which was held as part of the second day of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, organized on the sidelines of COP27.
The session covered the importance of (...)
Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman announced that the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) plans to export blue ammonia at the opening of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, which is being held on the sidelines of the 27th session of the (...)
Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Eng. Abdulrahman Bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadhli affirmed that the Kingdom is committed to sustainable economic development to preserve natural resources.
He stressed that the Kingdom has more than 66 (...)
A session was held Friday themed "The Clean Hydrogen Revolution: Is It Time?", within the activities of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
During the session, the General Supervisor of the National Program for (...)
Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Bin Ibrahim Al-Khorayef met with Sri Lanka Minister of Environment Naseer Ahmed, on the sidelines of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, held in conjunction with COP27 Summit hosted by the city of (...)
A discussion session entitled "Sustainable Tourism — Protecting Treasures of Nature" was held within the activities of the first day of the Saudi Green Initiative Forum on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Bin Ibrahim Al-Khorayef met with the British Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Grant Shapps on the sidelines of the Saudi Green Initiative forum, held in conjunction (...)
As the UN climate talks in Egypt near the halfway point, negotiators are working hard to draft deals on a wide range of issues they'll put to ministers next week in the hope of getting a substantial result by the end.
The two-week meeting in Sharm (...)
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, announced on Saturday the inauguration of three new projects that will further enhance the Kingdom's national and regional climate action. The announcement was made by Prince Abdulaziz (...)
