New Delhi: Twelve countries signed the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change at a United Nations (UN) conference Wednesday, promising to protect accurate, fact-based information on climate change.

The agreement was introduced at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Belém, Brazil and marks the first time that countries decided to combat climate disinformation and the undermining of climate issues at a COP.

“(We are) concerned by the growing impact of disinformation, misinformation, denialism, deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists, researchers and other public voices,” reads the declaration signed by Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Bel

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