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Aid agencies throw lifeline to hungry Zimbabweans
Dec 16, 2019 (AFP)
The innovative scheme by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), UKAID and Denmark's DanChurchAid (DCA) is helping thousands of urban households that each day face...
The upside-down world of UN climate diplomacy
Dec 15, 2019 (AFP)
COP25's final declaration, for example, could have called on countries to foreshadow -- preferably before the end of next year -- more ambition in reducing carb...
UN chief calls climate summit a 'lost opportunity'
Dec 15, 2019 (AFP)
Almost a fortnight of COP25 talks just squeezed out hard-earned compromises from countries over a global warming battle plan that fell well short of what scienc...
Five years of thirst: S.Africa's Eastern Cape battles brutal drought
Dec 14, 2019 (AFP)
His excitement was short-lived. Just a few days later, the forecast changed. It was back to cloudless sunshine. In South Africa's Eastern Cape province, no one ...
UN talks struggle to stave off climate chaos
Dec 13, 2019 (AFP)
The COP25 summit comes on the heels of climate-related disasters across the planet, including unprecedented cyclones, deadly droughts and record-setting heatwav...
Greenpeace action threatens EU summit venue
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
"The police are currently intervening. The summit will go ahead, but consideration is being given whether to relocate it to the Justus Lipsius building," said a...
Bloomberg at UN climate talks to push for US action
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The billionaire, aiming to become the Democratic presidential candidate for next year's vote, will unveil findings by a research group he funds suggesting that ...
Solving climate crisis requires leadership: Bloomberg
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The billionaire and former mayor of New York took a detour from his bid to capture the Democratic Party nomination and earn the right to run against President D...
UN talks out of sync with global climate demands
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
The 196-nation talks should kick into high-gear Tuesday with the arrival of ministers, but on the most crucial issue of all -- slashing the greenhouse gas emiss...
Activists to rally for mass climate march in Madrid
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The main march will take place in Madrid on the sidelines of the UN climate conference, with a simultaneous rally in the Chilean capital, which had been due to ...
Young people take to the streets for climate: Who are they?
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
Since then, the Fridays for Future movement sparked by Greta Thunberg, now 16, has gone global. In September, millions of young people on every continent poured...
Early climate change models were pretty accurate, study finds
Dec 05, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA reviewed 17 climate models described in scientific papers ...
The year the world woke up to the climate emergency
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
Spurred on by Swedish wunderkind Greta Thunberg -- virtually unknown outside of her homeland a year ago but now a global star nominated for a Nobel prize -- mil...
2010s hottest decade in history, UN says as emissions rise again
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
The World Meterological Organization said global temperatures so far this year were 1.1 degrees Celsius (two degrees Farenheit) above the pre-industrial average...
Zero-hour on climate, but UN talks in another time zone
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Mindful of this gap, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned on Sunday that a "point-of-no-return" in the climate crisis is "in sight and hurtling towards us." Indeed,...
Lagarde cautious on climate role for ECB
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
"I am fundamentally convinced that fighting climate change has to be central and high priority," Lagarde told European Parliament lawmakers in Brussels, althoug...
Anger, hope and pleas for action at UN climate meet
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
"One is the path of surrender, where we have sleep-walked past the point of no return, jeopardising the health and safety of everyone on this planet," Guterres ...
Climate crisis has reached 'point of no return', UN chief says
Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)
"For many decades the human species has been at war with the planet, and now the planet is fighting back," he said, decrying "utterly inadequate" efforts of the...
EU leadership takes office touting green ambition
Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)
Germany's Ursula von der Leyen became president of the European Commission and marked the occasion in a short ceremony with her top EU counterparts, including E...
US to have COP25 presence, despite Trump's Paris withdrawal
Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)
To better understand Washington's position and the consequences of the US exit, which was initiated by President Donald Trump, AFP interviewed Todd Stern, who p...
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