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  2023 marks hottest year on record in human history

  This year will be the hottest year on record in human history and urgent actions are needed to address climate change, said the WMO on Thursday.

• Global drought reaches 'unprecedented emergency' level

  Draughts have become an "unprecedented emergency" on a global scale and the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are "only starting to unfold," found a two-year study newly released at the UN climate change conference ongoing in UAE's Dubai.

• Delegates to COP28 endorse agriculture, food and climate action declaration

  Delegates to the COP28 climate conference signed up Friday for a landmark declaration calling on countries to work together on agriculture, food and climate action.

• China's pavilion launched at COP28 in Dubai

  China's pavilion at COP28 was officially inaugurated Thursday morning at the Expo City of Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

• 'Chinese Plan' gains considerable attention at world's largest civil nuclear exhibition

  "We are all witnesses of the colossal challenge of climate change. In 2022, nuclear energy represented the world's second largest source of low-carbon electricity. Over the past five decades, it has helped avoid the emission of approximately 70 billion tons of carbon dioxide," said Sylvie Bermann, senior French diplomat and France President of the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE), in WNE2023 which was held in Paris from November 28 to 30 in local time and themed with "Connecting nuclear to the world: rising to the energy and environmental challenges".
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  Lone Chinese researcher's winter in the Arctic
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  Xuelong 2 ploughs through belt of prevailing westerlies

• COP28 calls for accelerating global climate response

  ​The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, started Thursday afternoon in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

• COP28 sets up climate damage fund

  ​The UN climate change conference on Thursday operationalized a fund to support the world's particularly vulnerable countries in their efforts to cope with the loss and damage caused by climate change.
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  Developed countries should take lead in drastically cutting carbon emissions: FM spokesperson

  ​Developed countries should take the lead in drastically increasing their efforts in emissions reduction, reach net-zero carbon emissions much earlier than 2050, and create space for developing countries to achieve sustainable development goals, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.

• World leaders must break deadly cycle of global warming at COP28 climate conference: UN chief

  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasized on Monday that world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference this week need to interrupt the perilous progression of global warming before a "critical tipping point" is encountered.

• Earth system simulation model issued to study climate change

  A China-developed Earth system simulation model, designed to study climate change and provide help for disaster prevention and mitigation, was issued on Friday.

• Global climate financing conference opens in south China

  The 2023 Pearl Bay International Climate Investment and Financing Conference opened Friday in Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong Province.
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  China sees positive progress in climate change response

  China has made positive progress in tackling climate change amid sustained efforts to scale up its climate change response.