US President Joe Biden is set to speak by video link to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on January 21 to discuss bilateral ties but also security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region (AFP/SAUL LOEB)
17 January 2022
US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet virtually...
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27 December 2021
Across a quarter century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from...
Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks at a press conference at the close of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 13, 2021. Ben STANSALL / AFP
14 November 2021
Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after...
Designated British chairman of COP26, Alok Sharma. Photo: EPA
24 October 2021
Success at the upcoming COP26 climate summit is "definitely harder" than the 2015 Paris...
A thermal power plant is seen in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on July 16, 2021. Photo: AFP
18 July 2021
China launched its long-awaited emissions trading system on Friday, a key tool in its...
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13 June 2021
How to deal with Myanmar’s military junta is just one of the many pressing issues facing...
COP26 will gather climate negotiators from 196 countries and the EU, along with experts and world leaders (Photo: AFP)
15 May 2021
Britain still plans to hold an in-person global climate summit in Glasgow later this year...
A general view of a main road amidst haze in Beijing, China. Photo: EPA
01 May 2021
The failure to halt climate change, the destruction of nature and other intertwined...
US President Joe Biden (R) and Prime Minister of Japan Suga Yoshihide (L) during a joint news conference at the White House, in Washington, DC, USA, 16 April 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Doug Mills
18 April 2021
The United States and Japan vowed Friday to stand firm together against an assertive...
File) An aerial view shows damage from the flood waters after cyclone Idai made landfall in Sofala Province, Central Mozambique, 21 March 2019. Photo: EPA
26 January 2021
Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather...
Climate aid to millions of small farmers around the world must "substantially increase" to ward off hunger and instability, a United Nations body warned Saturday.
24 January 2021
Climate aid to millions of small farmers around the world must "substantially increase"...
Pauline Gumbo Rrom Mafomoti village walks past a carcass of a cow, Mwenezi, more than 500kms of Harare, Zimbabwe. Photo: EPA
09 January 2021
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will this year reach levels 50 percent higher...

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