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October 27, 2025 7:51 PM

Global Urban Leaders Convene in Dubai for Historic Asia Pacific Cities Summit

More than 15,000 urban leaders, policymakers, and innovators from over 600 cities worldwide converged Expo city Dubai today as the 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors' Forum officially opened, marking a historic first for the event in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia region. The three-day summit, running through October 29 at, brings together 118 mayors, deputy mayors, business executives, and young professionals under the banner "Collaborate. Inspire. Transform." Organized by Bri...

October 15, 2025 2:19 PM

Record global renewable energy growth remains short of climate target, report says

A record amount of renewable energy capacity was added globally last year, but that still left countries short of targets towards meeting a U.N. climate goal to triple capacity by 2030, a report by global renewable groups showed on Tuesday. More than 100 countries at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in 2023 agreed to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to meet global climate targets. The report by the International Renewable Energy Agency, ...

October 10, 2024 4:07 PM

COP28 President calls on parties to implement UAE Consensus

Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE's Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President, today called on nations to once again "unite, act and deliver" at COP29 in Baku to build on the mandate of last year's historic UAE Consensus, which represents the "road back to Paris". The UAE Consensus "represents the defining roadmap for achieving the ambition of the Paris Agreement," Al Jaber said in an address at the opening session of Pre-COP. "As we gather against a backdrop of continuing g...

September 17, 2024 11:20 AM

COP29 leaders unveil climate funding and energy storage goals

Less than two months ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, the Azerbaijani leadership laid out its plans on Tuesday for what it hoped to achieve, as countries continue to wrestle with how to raise ambitions for a new financing target. The main task for the November summit is for countries to agree on a new annual target for funding that wealthy countries will pay to help poorer nations cope with climate change. Many developing countries say they cannot upgrade their targets to cut e...