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Month before COP27, host Egypt faces heat over rights, climate action
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
Cairo voiced disappointment that King Charles III, a long-time champion of the environment, cancelled a plan to attend and speak at COP27 after Britain's Prime ...
Climate change 'kills on grand scale': expert
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
Professor Nicholas Stern, a Briton who authored a landmark 2006 report on the economic impact of global warming, made the observation at the Energy Intelligence...
Nobel Peace Prize could sound alarm over Ukraine war or climate
Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)
Prize experts are split over who will get it. One camp thinks this year's award winner will be a critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukra...
Climate change made 2022 drought 'at least 20 times likelier'
Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)
The three months from June-August were the hottest in Europe since records began, and the exceptionally high temperatures led to the worst drought the continent...
DR Congo, Brazil, Indonesia to present common front at climate talks
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
All three countries have vast tropical rainforests threatened by logging and agriculture. Bazaiba, addressing reporters at the informal pre-COP27 talks in the D...
Costa Rica wins new aid deal under IMF climate change fund
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
A team from the Washington-based lender agreed with the Central American nation's government to provide $710 million under the Resilience and Sustainability Tru...
African climate summit opens in DR Congo
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
The talks in the DRC's capital, Kinshasa, are informal but meant to allow various countries and green groups to take stock of political positions ahead of COP27...
Calls for more funding as pre-COP27 climate talks open in DR Congo
Oct 03, 2022 (AFP)
The haggle comes ahead of COP27 -- the UN's 27th summit-level gathering on climate change, which is due to take place in Egypt next month. At opening ceremonies...
Environmental bodies concerned by new UK government's climate comments
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
Urged to act in the face of soaring energy prices, the new premier took office in early September and promptly announced a package of measures. They included th...
Climate change at 'point of no return': primatologist Goodall
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Goodall, a grandee of environmentalism whose activism has spanned decades, said time was rapidly shortening to halt the worst effects of human-caused global war...
Barbados wins first loan deal from IMF climate change fund
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
A team from the Washington-based lender agreed with the island nation's government on a $183 million package through the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RS...
Boost climate action or we'll see you in court, activists tell govts
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
From legal efforts to steer governments to do more to curb fossil fuel pollution, to court action over companies' misleading green claims, the number, scope and...
Scientists urge top publisher to withdraw faulty climate study
Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)
Appearing earlier this year in The European Physical Journal Plus, published by Springer Nature, the study purports to review data on possible changes in the fr...
Why are climate activists calling for reparations
Sep 26, 2022 (AFP)
The currently favored term for this concept is "loss and damage" payments, but some campaigners want to go further and frame the issue as "climate reparations,"...
Indigenous activists raise climate awareness on sidelines of UNGA
Sep 24, 2022 (AFP)
Peas has been fighting against the destruction of forests for three decades and regrets that states and companies continue to destroy the Amazon despite the urg...
Bangladesh PM denounces 'tragedy' of rich nations on climate
Sep 24, 2022 (AFP)
But the urgency of the situation is not being matched by actions of countries responsible for emissions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. The...
UN chief wants 'action' to address climate loss, damage payments
Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)
Ahead of the forthcoming COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi -- the latter appeari...
Seismic device made for extraterrestrial research can help tackle climate change on earth
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
Underground features like carbon reservoirs can be monitored using seismic waves, either generated by earthquakes or by man-made sources. But seismic monitoring...
NASA, First Street Foundation announce collaboration on climate risk research
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
NASA will now receive bulk access to First Street's national high-resolution, property-specific, climate-adjusted risk hazard and statistical data, as well as t...
Looking for reasons to be cheerful about climate action
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
This cheerfulness is not because Wood has somehow failed to notice the litany of storms, floods and heatwaves battering the world and the dire projections of wh...
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