The tiny island nation made the case that more attention must be focused on the threat of rising sea levels and gaps in international law about how to handle the loss of land.
Earth's warming is tipped to submerge low-lying coastal communities and islands, including parts of the Maltese archipelago – imperiling entire nations this century.
That's a climate risk that the small island nation in the Mediterranean Sea highlighted on Tuesday as part of its U.N. Security Council presidency this month. The position passes among the council's 15 members on a month-to-month basis.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
Oil producers took issue with a prediction by the energy agency's chief that demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2030.
African leaders say they have a market-based plan to fight human-caused global warming that will spread economic development among millions of people on the continent.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden each took the stage at the U.N. General Assembly to emphasize there are global stakes in the outcome of the war.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
