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A fuel nozzle is seen at a gas station in Berlin April 3, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Sale of Petrol, Diesel Vehicles Banned in UK by 2040

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 26, 2017 | Business

Moving to cut down air pollution, Britain announced on Wednesday the soon to be outlawing of sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans as of 2040. Environmentalists, however, dismissed the proposals as shortcoming and not enough. The ban on petrol and diesel cars as...

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The Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, is seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, in this NASA/British Antarctic Survey handout photo. REUTERS/NASA/

175 countries Sign the Landmark Climate Change Agreement

by Assma al-Khawli | Apr 25, 2016 | Features, World

Cairo- Over a 175 countries– last Friday- signed the landmark agreement for climate change at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The period for signing will remain open for another year, in which it allows all parties to sign for the ratification of the Paris...

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Minister of State for Environment of Peru Manuel Pulgar-Vidal (L), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C), Chairman of the IPCC Rajendra K. Pachauri (1st R) and Secretary of the IPCC Renata Christ (2nd R), present a comprehensive report by the UN climate panel, summarizing the three interim reports previously released on climate changes, Sunday Nov. 2. 2014, at Tivoli Congress Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Jens Dresling)

Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100: UN

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 2, 2014 | World

Copenhagen, Reuters—Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit risks of irreversible damage, a UN report said on Sunday. The 40-page synthesis, summing up 5,000 pages of work...