#climate change

President Nikos Christodoulides will be attending the UN Climate Summit (COP28) in Dubai on Thursday, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Speaking at a press briefing, Letymbiotis added that ...

By Gloria Dickie Countries’ current emissions pledges to limit climate change would still put the world on track to warm by nearly 3 degrees Celsius this century, according to a United ...

By Jake Spring Restoring global forests could sequester 22 times as much carbon as the world emits in a year, according to a scientific study published on Monday, making the case ...

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday that the latest round of government-sponsored tree planting initiatives, which involves planting 11,000 trees and shrubs, “is not just ordinary tree planting”. “It is ...

Biologists Niyazi Turkseven and Hasan Sarpten warned on Sunday against complacency among Turkish Cypriots regarding the island’s water supply after the Kioneli reservoir dried up. Turkseven and Sarpten reported ...

By Gloria Dickie With climate warming leading to more air conditioning use worldwide, dozens of countries including China, India and the United States are being asked to commit to a ...

Design Your Climate Action is an International competition developed by humanitarian educational initiative BE OPEN and its partners. It is open to all students, graduates and young professionals who specialise ...

Climate change is a reality and as the UN secretary-general anxiously stated, “the planet has exceeded safety limits”. The European Union is encouraging the installation of solar, photovoltaic and other ...

By Gloria Dickie Billions of people could struggle to survive in periods of deadly, humid heat within this century as temperatures rise, particularly in some of the world’s largest ...

The government is attempting to mitigate the consequences of crises caused by climate change, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday at a press conference on the grant scheme for ...

This year is on track to become the hottest since at least 1940, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. Scientists have said climate change, combined with ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Friday participate in an informal summit of the European Council in Granada, Spain, which will focus on the future of the EU and the external ...

Climate change makes need for constant upgrades ever more vital In a significant stride toward bolstering its firefighting capabilities, the Fire Service recently welcomed a delivery of nine cutting-edge 4×4 fire ...

The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international ...

Safeguarding trees are being ignored by authorities that plan new roads, hand out our building permits or undertake public works By Efi Xanthou One assumes that government policies are adhered ...

I was astonished to see the headline ‘Record heat’ in your 13/8/2023 edition. I live in Limassol and I can assure you the temperature has never been close to 40°C here ...

The Group of 20 (G20) major nations failed on Friday to agree on concrete targets to cut dangerous emissions, releasing only a statement that dismissed current measures to address climate change ...

Egypt’s government will implement emergency moves, including rationing electricity and increasing fuel oil imports, as it bids to tackle a summer power shortage, the country’s prime minister said ...

By Claudia Greco Farmer Andrea Ferrini is on the frontline of climate change in Italy and it is hurting. First his fruit and corn crops in northern Italy withered in ...

Pope Francis said on Sunday that recent heat waves across many parts of the world and flooding in countries such as South Korea showed that more urgent action was needed ...

British housing minister Michael Gove warned on Sunday against making tackling climate change “a religious crusade”, days after the governing Conservatives narrowly won a local election by opposing charges for ...

Climate protests at two German airports led to travel disruptions early on Thursday at the height of the busy summer holiday season, with Hamburg airport saying dozens of flights had ...

As the planet registered the hottest day ever recorded in its history, one wonders if humanity and Cyprus are prepared for the upcoming consequences By Natasa Ioannou The planet reached ...

By Andrea Shalal The United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, U.S. Treasury Secretary ...