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COP28 chief urges climate plan for Paris Agreement’s goals

BERLIN / WAM In a speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, presented his broad ambitions for COP28, which covered a call for transformative action and strong outcomes across the mitigation work programme, the global goal on adaptation and doubling adaptation finance, ...

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UAE sends food aid to Sudan refugees at Chadian border

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE, through the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation and the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, sent a plane carrying urgent food supplies to Abeche Airport on the Sudanese-Chadian border on Tuesday. The aid will urgently support Sudanese refugees affected by the current situation in the Republic of Sudan, which has led to the displacement of ...

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RAK archaeologists, US universities team up to study climate change in Bronze Age Arabia

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM Archaeologists in Ras Al Khaimah have partnered with two United States universities to analyse 4,000-year-old human remains to see if a dramatic climate event at that time can help inform how humans’ biology would be affected by a similar event in the future. A professor and student team of bio-anthropologists from Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US, ...

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