NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2025 (ENS) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a climate summit at the UN's New York headquarters this week. The high-level week of the UN General Assembly is in full swing, and he is using the event to convince governments to elevate the level of ambition in their national climate pledges [...]

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BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 18, 2025 (ENS) - The European Commission has presented its proposal to the European Council to suspend billions of euros in its trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen previewed in her State of the Union address on September 10. [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS - The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. [...]

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"Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer - guided by science, united in action," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. [...]

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