Un Climate Chief Christiana Figueres

Ministers from around the planet today launched a five-day scramble in Paris to answer "the call of history" and strike a deal to spare mankind from climate disaster.

"I do think that all the 195 countries do have a common enemy, and the common enemy is the prospect of runaway climate change, of greenhouse gas emissions that would continue to increase and have the most pernicious effect on the developing countries and in particular on the vulnerable under-developing countries," Christiana Figueres, Executive Sec...

Environment and energy ministers have made "progress" in three days of talks to seek political convergence ahead of a UN climate summit, host France said today, but much hard work remains.

The UN climate chief urged nations Monday to ensure the speed of future efforts, saying the planet was on course for warming of a still-dangerous three degrees Celsius.

Crunch climate negotiations opened in Bonn Monday with a UN official urging countries to replenish coffers for the critical Paris conference tasked with sealing a global carbon-curbing pact in December.

United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres on Tuesday warned time was running out for meaningful action on global warming, citing the plight of low-lying Pacific nations facing ever-rising seas.

Wildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia.

Ministers from around the planet today launched a five-day scramble in Paris to answer "the call of history" and strike a deal to spare mankind from climate disaster.

"I do think that all the 195 countries do have a common enemy, and the common enemy is the prospect of runaway climate change, of greenhouse gas emissions that would continue to increase and have the most pernicious effect on the developing countries and in particular on the vulnerable under-developing countries," Christiana Figueres, Executive Sec...

Environment and energy ministers have made "progress" in three days of talks to seek political convergence ahead of a UN climate summit, host France said today, but much hard work remains.

The UN climate chief urged nations Monday to ensure the speed of future efforts, saying the planet was on course for warming of a still-dangerous three degrees Celsius.

Crunch climate negotiations opened in Bonn Monday with a UN official urging countries to replenish coffers for the critical Paris conference tasked with sealing a global carbon-curbing pact in December.

United Nations climate change chief Christiana Figueres on Tuesday warned time was running out for meaningful action on global warming, citing the plight of low-lying Pacific nations facing ever-rising seas.

Wildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia.