Urban areas are responsible for more than 70% of global CO2 emissions, primarily due to transport, industry, and buildings, Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, said on Wednesday.

Norway is set to inaugurate on Thursday the gateway to a significant undersea vault for carbon dioxide, marking a crucial step toward launching what the operator describes as the first commercial service for CO2 transport and storage.

European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the EU from 2040 to be emissions-free, News.Az reports citing Reuters.