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Vietnam: Typhoon Kajiki Floods Streets of Hanoi, Halts Traffic

Typhoon Kajiki struck northern and central Vietnam, causing at least four deaths, multiple injuries, and extensive damage. Heavy rains and strong winds flooded streets in Hanoi, paralyzed traffic, and damaged thousands of homes and hectares of crops across Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thai Nguyen, Phu Tho, and Quang Tri provinces. Power outages affected thousands as electricity poles fell, and emergency services were deployed to assist residents and reinforce flood defenses. Flooding and landslide risks remain high, with authorities issuing alerts and evacuation plans in low-lying areas.

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Made-in-China metro train goes into operation in northern Portugal

STORY: Made-in-China metro train goes into operation in northern Portugal SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 6, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:22 LOCATION: PORTO, Portugal CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the metro train STORYLINE: The first Made-in-China metro train in the European Union (EU) was put into commercial operation in Porto, Portugal on Wednesday. Portugal's Minister of Environment and Climate Action Duarte Cordeiro highlighted that the newly launched metro train fulfills the public's expectations for comfortable and secure travel, significantly elevating the efficiency of Porto's metro network. The metro train was manufactured by China's CRRC Tangshan, a collaboration project initiated in early 2020 with Porto Metro, resulting in the production of 18 train sets and a five-year maintenance service agreement. Officially launched in 2021, the first train arrived in Porto by the end of 2022. Porto, Portugal's second-largest city, currently boasts six metro lines and over 80 stations, cove

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Japan given infamous fossil award

Environmental nonprofit Climate Action Network sponsors an event to award the Fossil of the Day to countries failing in their climate change commitments. Japan, New Zealand and the United States received the award at the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP28, in Dubai on Dec. 3, 2023.

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Japan given infamous fossil award

Environmental nonprofit Climate Action Network sponsors an event to award the Fossil of the Day to countries failing in their climate change commitments. Japan, New Zealand and the United States received the award at the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP28, in Dubai on Dec. 3, 2023.

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Philippe Martinez- The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan barely misses CAN's 'Ray of the Day' award

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 16 Kyodo - The Climate Action Network announces on Dec. 11, 2014, that Japan is awarded a "Pending" Ray of the Day, barely missing the Ray of The Day award, in the Peruvian capital of Lima where the U.N. Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP 20), has been underway. The advocacy group of environmentalists gives out the Ray of the Day award to nations which are a ray of hope in negotiations on climate change in contrast to the Fossil of the Day award.

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'Fossil' award to Japan for moves worsening global warming

LIMA, Peru - Members of the Climate Action Network gives Japan a "Fossil of the Day" award during a U.N. conference on climate change in Lima on Dec. 2, 2014, for "funding coal and gas power stations in developing countries, in particular Indonesia, with money meant for scaling up climate action."

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Climate Action Network

BONN, Germany - Members of the Climate Action Network, an international alliance of environmental nongovernmental organizations, hold a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on June 14, 2014.

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Fossil awards

DOHA, Qatar - Members of the Climate Action Network show the flags of New Zealand, Japan, Russia, the United States and Canada, the recipients of the group's "Fossil of the Day" awards for not making sufficient efforts to fight global warming, in Doha on Nov. 26, 2012.

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Japan wins Fossil of the Day award

BONN, Germany - A member (C) of a Japanese environmentalist group receives the Fossil of the Day award, in place of a Japanese government representative, after Japan won the award on June 11, 2011, at the venue of an international climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. The Climate Action Network, which groups hundreds of nongovernmental organizations worldwide, gave the award to Japan after one of its delegates reportedly made remarks suggesting that Japan will continue to weigh heavily nuclear power plants in its fight against global warming.

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Japan gets dishonorable "award" at COP27

An MC in a skeleton costume announces Japan as the winner of the "Fossil of the Day" award during the United Nation's COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 9, 2022. The prize, organized by Climate Action Network International, is traditionally awarded every day during the COP conferences to countries "doing the most to achieve the least" in terms of the progress on climate change.

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Japan barely misses CAN's 'Ray of the Day' award

LIMA, Peru - The Climate Action Network announces on Dec. 11, 2014, that Japan is awarded a "Pending" Ray of the Day, barely missing the Ray of The Day award, in the Peruvian capital of Lima where the U.N. Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP 20), has been underway. The advocacy group of environmentalists gives out the Ray of the Day award to nations which are a ray of hope in negotiations on climate change in contrast to the Fossil of the Day award. (Kyodo)

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U.S., Japan named least cooperative in reducing global warming

LIMA, Peru - The Climate Action Network, a group representing environmental NGOs from around the world, holds a "Fossil of the Day" award ceremony in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 10, 2014, for countries considered uncooperative in reducing global warming. The United States and Japan were named joint recipients. (Kyodo)

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Climate Action Network

BONN, Germany - Members of the Climate Action Network, an international alliance of environmental nongovernmental organizations, hold a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on June 14, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Japan wins Fossil of the Day award

BONN, Germany - A member (C) of a Japanese environmentalist group receives the Fossil of the Day award, in place of a Japanese government representative, after Japan won the award on June 11, 2011, at the venue of an international climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. The Climate Action Network, which groups hundreds of nongovernmental organizations worldwide, gave the award to Japan after one of its delegates reportedly made remarks suggesting that Japan will continue to weigh heavily nuclear power plants in its fight against global warming. (Kyodo)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Michal Kurtyka COP 24

People who did not get to the room are watching the dialogue by COP President Michal Kurtyka with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger COP 24

People who did not get to the room are watching the dialogue by COP President Michal Kurtyka with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger COP 24

People who did not get to the room are watching the dialogue by COP President Michal Kurtyka with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger COP 24

People who did not get to the room are watching the dialogue by COP President Michal Kurtyka with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (on the screen) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim COP 24

People who did not get to the room are watching the dialogue by COP President Michal Kurtyka with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (on the screen) member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

A dialogue by Michal Kurtyka COP President (right) with Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor (left) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

A dialogue by Michal Kurtyka COP President (right) with Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor (left) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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COP 24 conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor

A dialogue by Michal Kurtyka COP President with Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor (left) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network (right) took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

A dialogue by Michal Kurtyka COP President (right) with Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor (left) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger COP 24,

A dialogue by Michal Kurtyka COP President with Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor (left) and Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim member of the Climate Action Leadership Network (right) took place in Katowice, December 2, during COP24. (CTK Photo/Grzegorz Klatka)

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Fossil of the Day award

The Climate Action Network, a collective of worldwide environmental organizations, awards the Fossil of the Day, an award presented to countries failing in their climate change commitments, to Brazil and Japan during the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties on climate change, dubbed COP25, in Madrid on Dec. 11, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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COP25 in Madrid

The Climate Action Network, a collective of worldwide environmental organizations, awards the Fossil of the Day, an award presented to countries who are failing in their climate change commitments, to Brazil, Australia and Japan during a U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, in Madrid on Dec. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo