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Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline -- the sharpest since WWII -- would barely dent long-term global warming, researchers reported
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UK Champion of Adaptation and Resilience visits
MINISTER TREVELYAN TOURED A CLIMATE-RESILIENT FARM AND PLANTED A MANGO TREE TO MARK THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT.
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#BTEditorial - Let’s embrace Africa-Caribbean ties - and make them real - Barbados Today
Let’s embrace Africa-Caribbean ties - and make them real The inextricable link between the Caribbean and Africa, though not fully embraced, exploited or expanded for decades yet endures. The ties in blood, sweat, tears and toil that extend through half a millennium must now be allowed to flourish
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Earth Today | JET founder flags climate change, plastic connection
AS THOUGH its established threat to public health and marine life were not enough, there is yet another reason for the required assault on plastics locally and globally: climate change. “Plastic is made from fossil fuels, the use of which has...
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Angelina Jolie visits refugee camp in Burkina Faso | Africanews
Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso for World Refugee Day on Sunday
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How LEAP Innovations is Making Remote Learning Easier for Educators, Parents, and Students
Recognizing the need for assistance, and to ensure that students continue to receive the best education possible, Chicago-based nonprofit, LEAP Innovations,  launched a free six-week Remote Learning Seminar Series, taking place each Wednesday, aimed at equipping educators with tools to help
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Tunisia plants seeds of hope against climate change | Africanews
Tunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change.
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Africa: In a Watershed Year for Climate Change, the Commonwealth Secretary-General Calls for Urgent, Decisive and Sustained Climate Action
[IPS] London -- This November, five years after signing the Paris Agreement and pledging to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with a further target of below 1.5 degrees Celsius, world leaders will meet in Glasgow, UK amid COVID-19 pandemic shocks, rising hunger
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Africa: 98 Percent of Emperor Penguin Colonies Could Be Extinct By 2100 As Ice Melts - Can Endangered Species Act Protection Save Them?
[The Conversation Africa] Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica's coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there's too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may
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Isaac Ruto denies claims of helicopter lift to State House
Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) party leader Isaac Ruto has refuted claims that he was picked by a helicopter on Wednesday morning and dropped at State House, even with speculations rife that he was set for appointment to a top State
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South Africa: President Receives Recommendations From the Presidential Climate Commission
[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday received the first set of recommendations from the Presidential Climate Commission.
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President challenges AmCham to ‘champion’ removal of catfish ban by US - Stabroek News
With the ban on the export of catfish (Siluriformes) to the United States still in effect, discussions between technical officers here and in the US are ongoing in an effort to resume the
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Africa: Opinion - At the G7, the UK Can Lead On Climate and Vaccines
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The greatest value that the G7 can provide is in making sure these rich countries, which represent over half the world's wealth, deliver on two key pledges
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Film review: John Lewis – Good Trouble
“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John
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Confronting ecological ruin through sport | The Standard
Excitement and fanfare characterised the second edition of the Chivero Challenge with scores participating in several activities towards the protection and restoration of the environment at Lake Chivero, recently (June 13 and 14).
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In NYC after Ida, Biden calls climate 'everybody's crisis' | The Atlanta Voice
President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisis” on Tuesday as he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, warning it’s time for America to get serious about the “code red” danger or face ever worse loss of life and property. Biden spoke after
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VIDEO: NYPD Rescues Driver Trapped By Torrential Floods In Central Park – The Wilmington Journal
After torrential rain and unprecedented flooding in the New York City area on Wednesday night, police officers rescued a driver whose car was nearly completely submerged. Video posted on Facebook shows officers from the Central [...]
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Tunisia: Saied, Macron Hold Bilateral Talks, Discuss Cooperation, Partnership, Regional and International Issues
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President Kais Saied, on Tuesday evening, held bilateral talks with French President, Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace.
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Hoosiers express greater concern about future pandemics, climate change | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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Ashes Instead of Soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Fight – Free Press of Jacksonville
COVID-19 has worsened the underlying structural and perennial problem of water shortages in Matabeleland North, South and Bulawayo provinces, said Dumisani Nkomo, chief executive officer for Habakkuk Trust, a nonprofit
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Biden administration climate focus could impact on US development bank projects here - Stabroek News
Following a visit under the Donald Trump administration from the US’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) a number of local companies applied for financing but will have to await “direction” in line with the Joe Biden administration’s strong focus on climate
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Africa Has Prospect for Opportunities in Next 10 Years - VP
[This Day] Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that the next 10 years offers great opportunities for Africa's socio-economic transformation anchored on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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As Washington navigates infrastructure, climate activists demand equity for Black neighborhoods
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Nigeria's Poultry, Egg Prices 'Highest Ever' Amidst Inflation, Insecurity
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Biggest Chinese bank ditches R43bn Zim coal power plant | Fin24
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Plaskett, Territorial Counterparts Press Biden for Meeting on Equal Rights
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