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2023-24 El Nino among five strongest on record, will continue fuelling heat in 2024: WMO

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) report highlights the severe consequences of climate change, projecting an additional 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses by 2050. (photo: DW)

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Climate change may claim 14.5 mn lives by 2050: WEF

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2023 officially warmest year on record by a huge margin, World Meteorological Organisation confirms

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The pledge aims for a just, orderly, and "equitable transition", accelerating action to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. (photo: DW)

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The COP28 summit is being held in the UAE, a major oil and gas producer (photo: DW)

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Climate activists protest during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28. (photo: DW)

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COP28 climate talks into extra time with no deal in sight

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As COP28 continues in Dubai, researchers predict record high levels of carbon emissions this year. (photo: DW)

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UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres emphasised that nearly a third of Nepal's ice had vanished in just over 30 years, directly linking it to greenhouse gas pollution (photo: IANS)

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