Earth has 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026
Faced with the climate emergency and the drought that affects the planet, particularly the African continent, many heads of state are meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast to adopt measures to ...
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Marine plastics to ‘soon outweigh fish’ in the world’s oceans
Marine plastics will outweigh the total mass of fish in the world's oceans in the coming decades, according to an environmental report that calls for a multilateral plastics treaty to ...
Global targets: Climate seen as top risk to world economy
Failure to act on crisis will hold back recovery, WEF poll finds As the world started the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, most experts taking part in the research ...
Africa Climate Change Fund showcases achievements at the sidelines of the COP26 in Glasgow
On November 8, the Africa Climate Change Fund held a public stakeholder engagement event titled “The Role of the Africa Climate Change Fund in building African climate finance readiness and resilience” in “Le ...
Climate Change: Africans looking to more efforts from COP 26
As the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties gets underway, Africans expect action from it on mitigation, finance and adaptation in the effort to combat climate change ...
WHO’s 10 calls for climate action to assure sustained recovery from COVID-19
Global health workforce urges action to avert health catastrophe The WHO COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference ...
President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, Secretary John Kerry Meets African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina on Climate Financing for Africa
US President Joseph Biden’s special envoy for Climate, Secretary John Kerry, and the African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina have held a virtual meeting ahead of November’s global climate summit, COP26. They discussed Africa’s climate ...
US: Teamwork urged on climate efforts
"Cooperation on climate between the world's two largest emitters will benefit both countries and accelerate the whole process for everyone," said Barbara Finamore, senior strategic director for Asia at the ...
How climate change could expose new epidemics
These could be disaster movie storylines, but they are also serious and increasingly plausible scenarios of epidemics unleashed by global warming, scientists say. The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the ...
Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan
Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan, whose implementation requires $11 billion (10.2 trillion), as an essential tool to implement the Paris Agreement. ...
