NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose for the third consecutive day on Thursday after Saudi Arabia suspended oil shipments through a strait in the Red Sea after an attack on two oil tankers and as trade tensions between the United States and the European Union eased.
Posted on - 2018-07-28Fiji's prime minister has told a climate conference in Fiji that everyone needs to be more ambitious to reach climate change goals. Frank Bainimarama was addressing delegates at the Climate Action Pacific Partnership Conference in Suva.
As president of last year's UN climate talks (COP23), Mr Bainimarama said he had deep concern and impatience at the lack of progress on curbing climate change.
Posted on - 2018-07-26Majuro—The Republic of the Marshall Islands hosted a Partnership Dialogue on Climate Change on Monday to accelerate implementation of its nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement by outlining priorities to mobilize domestic and global partners and align resources to the country’s most urgent needs as identified in its draft NDC Partnership Plan for climate action, and confirmed it will bring forward a new and more ambitious NDC by 2020.
Posted on - 2018-07-25