Environment

BAKU - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Monday.

They discussed bilateral relations and the excellent overall cooperation between Serbia and Azerbaijan, reflected in numerous joint infrastructure projects and friendly relations between the two nations.

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.

The year 2024 is set to be the hottest on record, with global temperatures expected to surpass those of 2023, according to the European Climate Change Service, Copernicus. The announcement was made ahead of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan, where nations are expected to discuss significant increases in funding to combat climate change.

During the formal opening ceremony of COP16, Guterres urged the member states of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to make “large investments” in the international fund for nature protection. He delivered this message via a pre-recorded video.

EU environment ministers agreed on the bloc's negotiating position ahead of the COP 29 United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan next month, a council statement said.

Global warming. Disappearing plant and animal species. Fertile land turning to desert. Plastic in the oceans, on land, and the air we breathe.

These urgent environmental challenges will be in the spotlight over the next few months as the United Nations hosts four major sessions to address key threats to the planet.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev in Belgrade on Thursday, noting that Serbia was committed to sustainable development and initiatives that would help the global fight against climate change.

Countries on the frontlines of climate change have warned they cannot wait another year for long-sought aid to recover from disasters as floods and hurricanes wreak havoc across the globe.

The appeal came during a meeting of the "loss and damage" fund that will conclude Friday amid concerns it is unlikely to be able to approve climate aid until 2025.

Over a fifth of the 11,500 endangered animal, plant and fungi species in Greece are "critically endangered," meaning they are under threat of extinction, a new assessment of the country's Red List has found.

The intense northern hemisphere summer heat that drove wildfires across the Mediterranean, buckled roads in Texas and strained power grids in China last year made it not just the warmest summer on record - but the warmest in some 2,000 years, new research suggests.