Oxfam: Delay on climate agreement will cost lives
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"Children are already dying because of climate change and without urgent action these deaths will increase," said Rudolph von Bernuth, Emergency Director for Save the Children. "Nearly nine million...
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The Climate Vulnerable Countries' Forum over 9 -10 November has just concluded meeting in the Maldives and released a statement calling for "ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with...
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Early this year the African Penguin was redlisted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as in danger of extinction. In response to a 2006 petition by the Centre for Biological...
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A new study by NOAA - the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - has highlighted that climate change is a major contributor to more frequent Mediterranean droughts. According to the study...
View ArticleThe Link between Emission Cuts, Right to Development and Transformation of...
Statement from Focus on the Global South.Humanity is running out of time. If there are no deep and real cuts in the next five years the impacts of climate change will lead to a weiterlesen
View ArticleClimate change contributed to humanitarian disaster in 2011 East Africa drought
Drought in East Africa 2011Scientists from the UK's Met Office have researched the causes of the 2011 East African drought and found human caused climate change was a significant contribution. The...
View ArticleCongo: Oil exploration in Virunga National Park condemned by World Heritage...
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, 18 JUNE, 2013 – The international body that oversees World Heritage Sites today requested the cancelation of oil exploration permits in Virunga National Park, some of which are...
View ArticleAfrica: Climate change contributing to food security and agricultural...
By Kieran Cooke. Agriculture dominates the economies of countries in East Africa: if plans aren’t made to adapt to climate change the region’s rapidly expanding population faces a grim future, says a...
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