Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP.
Police confirmed a 52-year-old woman was taken into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by (...)
On Oct. 27, Glasgow City Council unanimously backed a motion stating that women should be at the heart of all aspect of city planning, becoming the first city in the UK to embrace 'feminist urbanism'.
Feminist urbanism advocates for a type of urban (...)
The Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF) Joseph McMonigle congratulated the United Kingdom, Italy and all negotiating IEF countries on achieving consensus at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
COP26 concluded in (...)
After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, nearly 200 countries meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, adopted on Saturday an outcome document that, according to the UN Secretary-General, "reflects the interests, the contradictions, and the (...)
COP26, the UN climate summit in Glasgow, is running into overtime, as leaders and negotiators will keep working to reach a deal that could spare the world from catastrophic global warming.
Alok Sharma, the COP26 president, said late on Friday that a (...)
Prime Minister and Vice-President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum announced in a tweet on Thursday that the UAE has been selected to host the COP28 international climate conference in 2023.
"We (...)
A new draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has stepped up calls on governments to urgently tackle climate change.
However, the draft of COP26 cover deal released on Friday appeared to be backing away from a call to end all use of (...)
Governments need to show the necessary ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance in a balanced way, and they can't settle for the "lowest common denominator", the UN Secretary-General has said in Glasgow, where crucial climate negotiations are (...)
The United States and China have pledged to increase cooperation on climate action. The announcement by the two global rivals was made at the ongoing COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The announcement came as COP26 entered a new phase of negotiations (...)
Iran will ratify the landmark Paris agreement on climate change only if sanctions against it are lifted, a senior leader has told the BBC.
Ali Salajegheh said sanctions were impeding Iran in areas like renewable energy.
Iran is the world's eighth (...)
A world where every car, bus and truck sold is electric and affordable, where shipping vessels use only sustainable fuels, and where planes can run on green hydrogen may sound like a sci-fi movie, but here, at COP26, many governments and businesses (...)
A group of 22 nations known as the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), which include China and India, asked for the entire section on the mitigation of climate change to be removed from the draft COP26 text, CNN reported.
In a sign of enormous (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, urging nations to "pull out all the stops" to limit warming, BBC reported.
The first draft of an agreement setting out how countries will cut emissions to (...)
A draft of the Glasgow Agreement published on Wednesday includes language acknowledging that the world should be aiming to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which could be a first step in obliging countries to make more ambitious pledges (...)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on leaders and delegates to just "get on and do it" as the COP26 climate talks appear to have stalled.
A draft of the COP26 agreement published on Wednesday includes language that says the world should be (...)
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations are already facing. Voices from the front lines of climate change and its impacts were center (...)
Women took the global stage on Tuesday to show that climate change isn't gender neutral, and that climate action needs them: investing in women and girls creates ripple effects felt throughout entire communities and the frontline knowledge they (...)
Food processing, packaging, transport, household consumption and waste disposal are pushing the food supply chain to the top of the greenhouse gas emitters list, according to a new study led by the UN agriculture agency, presented on Monday at the (...)
There are more delegates at COP26 associated with the fossil fuel industry than from any single country, analysis shared with the BBC shows.
Campaigners led by Global Witness assessed the participant list published by the UN at the start of this (...)
Natural solutions are an essential part of the global response plan to address climate change, was a session organized by the Kingdom's pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, Glasgow, Monday.
The session discussed the (...)
"We're still falling short" on climate action, said former US President Barack Obama on Monday as he addressed the UN climate summit in Glasgow.
Obama said that while "meaningful progress has been made" since the 2015 Paris agreement he contributed (...)
As millions took to the streets of cities around the world on Saturday, demanding greater climate action, some countries taking part in the COP26 negotiations, made new pledges to invest in nature-based solutions and a greener approach to (...)
The Saudi Arabia's pavilion at the COP 26 United Nations Climate Summit held a discussion on current and future technologies for carbon extraction, which was attended by a number of academics and those interested in climate issues.
During the event (...)
"What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!" echoed throughout central Glasgow on Friday as thousands of protesters took the streets during the dedicated "Youth Day" at COP26.
Although the march was initially organized by Fridays for (...)
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets all over the world on Saturday to call on world leaders to do more to tackle the climate crisis during COP26.
The global protests came after tens of thousands of young people rallied in Glasgow on (...)
