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Nach harter Kritik und verlorener Stammplatz kämpft sich Luzerns Andrejs Ciganiks zurück. Der 28-Jährige wurde kürzlich zum lettischen Fussballer des Jahres gewählt und brennt auf das Derby gegen St. Gallen.

Klappts im zweiten Anlauf mit dem ersten Winterthurer Heimspiel des Jahres? Am Samstagabend ist Lausanne zu Gast (18 Uhr). Dass es erneut zum Spielabbruch kommen würde, glaubt Rahmen nicht. Die Erklärung im Winti-Inside.

Les services de sécurité de la daira d’El Khroub ont porté un coup d’arrêt aux activités d’un groupe criminel organisé. L’opération s’est soldée par l’arrestation […]

L’article 4 criminels munis d’armes à feu arrêtés à Constantine (VIDÉO) est apparu en premier sur .

Mfor.hu: Vegyesen alakult pénteken (1. 30.) a forint árfolyama a bankközi piacon. Az eurót este hat órakor 380,98 forinton jegyezték a reggel hét órai 381,28 forint után, a dollár jegyzése 320,70 forintra ment fel 319,76 forintról, míg a svájci franké 415,65 forintra csökkent 415,97 forintról. (MTI)

Tavaly 46 gyerek született Nagykürtösön, kevesebb mint 2024-ben, akkor 62 gyerek született a városban – tájékoztatta a TASR-t Marián Balko, a városi hivatal vezetője.

Pénteken (1. 30.) este elvitték Orosz Örsöt kihallgatásra a rendőrök a pozsonyi Fő térről, a kollektív bűnösség elve ellen zajló tüntetésről a Beneš dekrétumok megkérdőjelezésének vádjával.

Viren entwickeln sich ständig weiter und bedrohen die Gesundheit von uns allen. Experten warnen jetzt in einer Studie vor der Influenza-D und dem Caninen Coronavirus. Erste Fälle von Mensch-zu-Mensch-Übertragungen wurden in Asien entdeckt.

Prosecutors say Mamadou Hawa Gassama described Alassane Ouattara as a "tyrant" and "an enemy of Mali".

Dans l’optique de garantir la sécurité sanitaire des futurs pèlerins, l’Office National du Pèlerinage et de la Omra (ONPO) a publié un communiqué rappelant les […]

L’article Hadj 2026 : L’ONPO dresse la liste des contre-indications médicales est apparu en premier sur .

L’Office National de la Météorologie (ONM) a émis une série d’alertes de niveau 2 pour prévenir d’une dégradation climatique majeure touchant le nord et le […]

L’article BMS – Vigilance ORANGE : Plus de 50 mm de pluies dans ces wilayas à partir de ce samedi est apparu en premier sur .

Die Bergbahn-Betreiber in Grächen VS entkommen dem Aus, weil Gläubiger ihnen entgegenkommen. Die öffentliche Hand verzichtet auf Forderungen von über 5 Millionen Franken. Möglich war die Rettung aber nur dank der grossen Solidarität im Walliser Winterort.

Der fünftägige Vortest im Hinblick auf die neue Saison ist vorbei. Nach dem Auftritt im Kühlschrank von Barcelona beginnt das Kaffeesatzlesen bei Teams und Fans. Mercedes und Ferrari reisen mit Bestnoten zu den sechs Testtagen ab dem 11. Februar in Bahrain.

Hvg.hu: A Tisza folyó rendkívüli áradása súlyos infrastrukturális válságot okozott Kárpátalján: a megáradt folyó alámosta egy kulcsfontosságú gázvezeték tartóoszlopát a Beregszászi járásban, ami 17 településen mintegy 5800 háztartás gázellátását veszélyezteti - közölte a Világgazdaság híre alapján a Portfolio.

Die Italiener wollen gemeinsam mit den Schweizern das Inferno von Crans-Montana VS aufklären. Das entsprechende Gesuch hat Staatsanwaltschaft Wallis am Freitag durchgewunken. Bald könnten italienische Polizisten im Wallis aufkreuzen. Jurist Fabian Teichmann ordnet ein.

Two children in Nepal carry water buckets for the cracked fields due to a lack of rainfall in Sakhuwa Parsauni Rural Municipality, Parsa District, Madhesh Province. Parts of Madhesh Province experienced drought in July due to climate change, causing water shortages that affected children and families. Credit: UNICEF/Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 2026 (IPS)

On January 27, the United States officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement, an international treaty adopted in 2015 aiming to reduce global warming and strengthen countries’ resilience to climate impacts. Following a year of regulatory rollbacks and sustained efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle federal climate policy, this move is expected to trigger wide ranging ripple effects—undermining international efforts to curb climate change, accelerating environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, and increasing risks to human health, safety, and long-term development.

Since its adoption, the Paris Agreement has been instrumental to global climate action initiatives—mobilizing countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, expand renewable energy, strengthen climate adaptation, and protect vulnerable communities. The agreement requires member states to regularly update their emissions-reduction targets and submit plans for achieving them, serving as a vital framework for sustaining collective progress and maintaining transparent communication among nations.

Amnesty International warns that these actions by the Trump administration risk defunding “key multilateral and bilateral climate institutions and programming,” a shift that would have significant repercussions for not only the United States but for the broader international community. The organization warns that U.S. funding for United Nations (UN) agencies is expected to cease imminently, which would halt lifesaving support for climate-sensitive communities and disrupt critical climate monitoring and mitigation efforts.

Specifically, the U.S. withdrawal is expected to undermine global efforts to address climate-induced displacement, disaster recovery, and infrastructure rebuilding. Communities in developing countries are projected to bear the heaviest burdens, as reduced support will leave them more vulnerable to escalating climate-driven losses.

Before the withdrawal, the UN was already grappling with a severe funding crisis – one made worse by the U.S.’s refusal to pay its assessed contributions to the regular budget and its sharp cuts to foreign assistance. The U.S. has also withdrawn from the board of the UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), a crucial mechanism supporting vulnerable communities facing climate-driven disasters. Its previously pledged USD 17.5 million remains uncertain, raising further concerns about the fund’s ability to operate effectively.

With this move, the United States becomes the only nation to exit the agreement in history, joining Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the few states not party to it. With the U.S. being a major global actor in climate change negotiations, the withdrawal risks reducing diplomatic pressure on other wealthy nations to scale up contributions.

“The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement sets a disturbing precedent that seeks to instigate a race to the bottom, and, along with its withdrawal from other major global climate pacts, aims to dismantle the global system of cooperation on climate action,” said Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Programme Director for Climate, ESJ and Corporate Accountability.

“The US is one of several powerful anti-climate actors but as an influential superpower, this decision, along with acts of coercion and bullying of other countries and powerful actors to double down on fossil fuels, causes particular harm and threatens to reverse more than a decade of global climate progress under the agreement,” she added.

“For us, the fight against climate change continues. The fight for a just transition continues. The fight to get more resources for climate mitigation and adaptation, especially for those most vulnerable countries continues and our efforts will not waver in that part,” said UN Spokesperson to the Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric.

On January 22, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual State of Finance for Nature report, which monitors global finance flows toward nature-based solutions. The report found that investments in activities that harm the climate are roughly 30 times the investments for ecosystem conservation and restoration.

According to figures from UNEP, the private sector makes up approximately 70 percent of global financing that harms the environment, only giving back 10 percent of funding that works to protect it. In 2023, roughly USD 7.3 trillion was invested into global activities that harmed the environment, with USD 4.9 trillion coming from private sectors and USD 2.4 trillion coming from the public sectors, which aim to maximize support for fossil fuel usage, agriculture, water, transport, and construction.

This, compounded with President Donald Trump’s renewed “drill, baby, drill” policy, is expected to further destabilize global climate efforts by accelerating fossil fuel dependence, undermining emissions-reduction targets, and widening the financial gap for urgent climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration.

Jeremy Wallace, a professor of China studies at John Hopkins University, told reporters that the U.S.’s expanding reliance on fossil fuels sends a signal to the international community that scaling back climate ambition is acceptable. This risks encouraging other major emitters to pursue weaker energy transitions and less lofty emissions-targets.

China, for instance, recently pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by only 7-10 percent over the next decade, a target that has been widely criticized by climate experts as unambitious and insufficient to meet global emissions-targets.

“If the domestic market in the US continues to be dominated by fossil fuels through the fiat of an authoritarian government, that will continue to have an impact on the rest of the world,” said Basav Sen, climate justice project director at Institute for Policy Studies. “It will be that much harder for low-income countries, who are very dependent on fossil fuel production and exports, to be able to make their transitions with the US saying that we won’t fund any of it.”

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Christine Lagarde oder Larry Fink? Der Kampf um das Präsidium ist ein Richtungsentscheid über das Erbe von WEF-Gründer Klaus Schwab.

Zum ersten Mal wurde der Blick-Fussballpodcast live vor Publikum aufgenommen. Und die Premiere in Zürich war ein voller Erfolg.

Mehr Restaurants und neue Strände sollen die kleine Karibikinsel noch attraktiver machen. Die Genfer Reederei will zudem eine zweite Insel bauen.

Die Geschichte lehrt uns, dass es die entlegensten und ärmsten Regionen sein werden, die geopfert werden, so Séamus Boland. „Wir schaffen ein neues Europa, in dem die Verteidigung viel mehr Gewicht hat. Das können wir mit den derzeitigen Ausgaben nicht erreichen“.