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As COP27 enters its final days, the pressure is on for countries to make their case on what place fossil fuels — the main driver of climate change — have in the future. 

Countries are well behind on reaching an agreement at COP27 that outlines their collective climate action, but the G20 summit might have just nudged negotiators to find common ground.

Canadian companies are helping drive a wave of fossil fuel expansion in Africa, new data from German climate and human rights group Urgewald shows, and climate advocates say the federal government must step in with strong regulations to turn the tide.

The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year's international climate talks.

Canada is announcing millions of dollars in new climate finance for developing countries. But advocates warn symbolic donations are no replacement for the new financial tools delegates are negotiating at COP27.

The United Nations is cracking down on greenwashing. Former environment minister Catherine McKenna is leading the charge.

The next two months might be the busiest of Catherine Stewart’s life. Here's what Canada's climate change ambassador will be doing at the United Nations' COP27 climate conference in Egypt and how she'll set the stage for Montreal's massive biodiversity conference in December.

“We must acknowledge a harsh truth: there is no adapting to a growing number of catastrophic events causing enormous suffering around the world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says to delegates as COP27 begins in Egypt.

The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.

Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its destruction will be decided in Montreal in December.

The United Nations' development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help alleviate a growing debt crisis faced by the world’s poorest countries, including by writing off debts — not just rescheduling them.

The United States has boosted assistance to Pakistan’s flood relief efforts, announcing $10 million in aid, in addition to Washington's already announced financial assistance of $56.1 million, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, September 26, 2022.

With only two months to go before the United Nations climate conference kicks off in Egypt, delegates are descending on Cairo this weekend to discuss priorities, and advocates are fighting to make sure climate reparations stay on the agenda.

The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record−breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid−June.

Conservative party leadership candidate Scott Aitchison is condemning Leslyn Lewis' message to members last week about the Nuremberg Code and medical experimentation as nothing but a "dog whistle" to COVID-19 vaccine critics.