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World set for 3C warming despite pandemic, pledges: UN
AFP, Published on 09/12/2020
» PARIS: Earth remains on course to warm more than 3 degrees Celsius by the century's end despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions due to the pandemic and pledges to curb pollution, the UN said Wednesday.
Pope blames Amazon fires on destructive 'interests'
AFP, Published on 06/10/2019
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis opened a synod Sunday to champion the Amazon's poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive "interests" he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.
Thailand Advances Carbon Tax Awareness with Strategic Partnership
Published on 03/02/2025
» The Ministry of Finance, through the Excise Department, has partnered with the Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University, PTT Oil and Retail Business Public Company Limited (PTTOR), and Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited to drive awareness of carbon taxation and encourage sustainable energy practices. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed on 3 February 2025 at PTT and Bangchak service stations on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road to kickstart this initiative.
Following Trump, Argentina quits World Health Organization
AFP, Published on 06/02/2025
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentina said Wednesday it will quit the World Health Organization, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump's United States and citing similar complaints over the UN body's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
India's glacier disaster highlights Himalayan dangers
AFP, Published on 19/02/2021
» CHAMOLI (INDIA) - Long before this month's deadly flash flood in a remote Indian Himalayan valley, Kundan Singh Rana knew that all the construction work in the fragile region would one day mean disaster.
In message to China, Biden to meet Australia, India, Japan PMs
AFP, Published on 10/03/2021
» WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden will hold first-ever joint talks Friday with the leaders of Australia, India and Japan, boosting an emerging four-way alliance often cast as a bulwark against China.
Arctic nations meet as tensions and temperatures run high
AFP, Published on 20/05/2021
» REYKJAVIK: The eight countries bordering the Arctic were meeting on Thursday in Iceland to discuss peaceful cooperation in the region amid rising temperatures and tensions, in particular between Russia and the US.
Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydney
AFP, Published on 03/03/2022
» NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA) - Australia's emergency services ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that lurched towards Sydney Thursday after killing 13 people in more than a week of record-setting floods along the east coast.
Tobacco's environmental threat
Oped, Renaud Meyer and Dr Jos Vandelaer, Published on 31/05/2022
» Tobacco kills our environment, not just people. Tobacco causes over 8 million deaths every year globally and 81,000 in Thailand. Simultaneously, each year, tobacco destroys a vast landmass roughly the size of 44,000 Suan Luang Rama IX parks, the largest green park in Bangkok, causes massive deforestation and pollutes our environment.