COP27 United Nations Climate Conference

This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, July 14, 2022 (SDIS 33 via AP)

December 7, 2022, 2:29 pm

Year of climate woes ‘just the beginning’ amid failure to cut emissions, experts say

Despite some legislative progress and international aid deal for poorer countries, goal of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming since pre-industrial era is in peril

By Julien MIVIELLE and Kelly MacNamara

FILE - A sign reading "fossil fuels out" is displayed during a demonstration at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, on November 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

November 23, 2022, 6:49 am

COP27 didn’t slash emissions, but it did give Israeli climate tech a global stage

With first ever pavilion at UN climate meet, Israeli officials, firms and NGOs showcase solutions while signing agreements and commercial deals at an otherwise disappointing confab

By Sue Surkes

A worker cleans off a protest sign on the Golden Bull, a replica of Wall street Charging Bull, outside the Brazilian B3 Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP/Andre Penner)

November 23, 2022, 4:30 am

Israeli group helps rank companies on UN sustainability goals for annual prize

YK Center, which advocates for UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, jointly announces awards for top SDG performers among banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges

By Sue Surkes

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri, heads the closing session of the COP27 climate conference, at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, on November 20, 2022. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

November 20, 2022, 7:21 pm

No way to run a COP: Climate summit host Egypt gets bad marks

Observers allege that Cairo failed to act as a neutral broker in talks, protected petro-states; European official disappointed at weak push for commitments to limit global warming

By Marlowe HOOD

Members of the media listen as Frans Timmermans, executive vice president of the European Commission, left, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 19, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

November 19, 2022, 4:39 pm

Negotiators at COP27 reach deal on fund for nations stricken by extreme weather

Agreement aiming to have developed economies finance damage caused to poor nations as a result of climate change still needs to be approved in unanimous vote

By Seth Borenstein, Samy Magdy and Frank Jordans

US special climate envoy John Kerry stands in the middle of leaders and officials who have committed to take their governments to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, at the US pavilion, COP27 climate conference, Sharm el;-Sheikh, Egypt. Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg stands to his right in a green suit. Dekel Cohen from the Accountant General's Office is on the far left. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

November 17, 2022, 11:38 pm

Israel joins US-Canada plan for net zero carbon emissions in government by 2050

More than 50 participating countries will prepare work plans in time for UN COP28 climate confab in Dubai next year

By Sue Surkes

An example from the Environmental Protection Ministry's climate risk map for the northern coastal city of Acre. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

November 17, 2022, 7:37 pm

Environment Ministry unveils details of climate risk map to help policymakers

Inspired by a US national risk index, an interactive portal getting a pilot next year will provide detailed information on different locations’ vulnerability to potential disasters

By Sue Surkes

Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah speaks during a conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, September 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

November 17, 2022, 6:12 pm

Jailed Egyptian’s condition has ‘deteriorated severely’ since hunger strike — family

Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s sister calls visit ‘unsettling’; pro-democracy activist recently halted months-long protest fast under yet-unknown circumstances

By AP

Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian youth call for Jordan River rehabilitation, as part of joint activities organized by the not-for-profit EcoPeace organization. (Courtesy, EcoPeace)

November 17, 2022, 3:09 pm

Israel and Jordan pen agreement to clean up Jordan River

Countries pledge to reduce pollution by treating wastewater, connecting towns to sewage infrastructure, rehabilitating ecology, and creating tourism sites and jobs

By Sue Surkes

The former fishpond at Kfar Ruppin in northern Israel that is undergoing rewilding. (Omri salner, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

November 17, 2022, 2:33 pm

Company tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates

Through online questionnaire, Terrra will work out, and offer way to offset, emissions in bid to raise awareness among 1,000-plus Israeli contingent at UN confab in Egypt

By Sue Surkes

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, and party leaders at a swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

November 16, 2022, 1:07 pm

Daily Briefing Nov. 16: Mixed reactions for 25th Knesset; MDs use new tumor tech

Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses the new parliament and activists at COP27, as health and science reporter Nathan Jeffay looks at sperm count research, tumor tech

By ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, November 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

November 15, 2022, 12:11 am

Biden-Xi handshake sparks hope for climate cooperation as Egypt confab sputters

Bali meeting between heads of world’s two biggest polluters could lead to resumption of climate negotiations between them, with little progress made at COP27 summit

By Frank Jordans, Seth Borenstein and Kelvin Chan

Demonstrators attend a protest at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, Saturday, November 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

November 14, 2022, 7:00 pm

Egyptians keep tight leash on climate confab, muffling traditional din of protests

Israeli activists complain that COP27 is ‘damped down,’ with only limited public dissent allowed, in contrast to cacophony of demonstrations at previous meets

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Yosef Abramowitz smashes tablets atop Jebel Musa in Egypt, thought by some to be the site of Mount Sinai, to symbolize the world’s lack of action on climate change, November 13, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

November 13, 2022, 9:53 pm

Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push

Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to lobby for faster action on climate change

By Sue Surkes

Religious leaders call to stop using fossil fuels at at the UN COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 9, 2022. Among them (center) is Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Israeli Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development. (Courtesy)

November 13, 2022, 10:47 am

Multifaith leaders to gather in Israel and around the world for ‘climate repentance’

Jews to join forces with Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists; citing security concerns, Egypt refuses to let event be held at site believed by many to be biblical Mount Sinai

By ToI Staff