Rainforest giants Brazil, Indonesia, DR Congo sign deforestation pact
The world's biggest rainforest nations Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday formally launched a climate partnership to work together on conservation.
The world's biggest rainforest nations Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday formally launched a climate partnership to work together on conservation.
Environment
Nov 14, 2022
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The United Nations this week slammed corporate "greenwashing" and said organizations cannot claim to be net-zero while supporting fossil fuel projects.
Environment
Nov 11, 2022
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Like many African cities, Lomé, the capital of Togo, has a pollution problem.
Environment
Nov 10, 2022
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In retrospect, last year's climate talks in Glasgow look like a dream. International cooperation on methane emissions and deforestation. Acknowledgement of the urgency of the task. The world beginning to rise to the challenge, ...
Economics & Business
Nov 10, 2022
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When African environment ministers met in Senegal in mid-September, they made one of the most important decisions in the history of waste management in Africa.
Environment
Nov 10, 2022
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Planet-heating emissions from oil and gas production could be three times higher than reported, according to a satellite monitoring project launched Wednesday that the UN chief said made it harder to "cheat".
Environment
Nov 9, 2022
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The United Nations' High Level Expert Group (HLEG) has today issued a tough report aimed at preventing net zero being undermined by false claims and "greenwashing" and encouraging climate action, while new data from Oxford's ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2022
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A report into online violence against women journalists draws on Department of Computer Science research to call for urgent action by U.K. policymakers to protect lives, livelihoods and press freedom.
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2022
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On Sept. 23, the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that the Australian government had violated the human rights of a group of Indigenous island residents known as "the Torres Strait 8" when it failed to adequately ...
Political science
Nov 8, 2022
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Developing and emerging countries—excluding China—need investments well beyond $2 trillion annually by 2030 if the world is to stop the global warming juggernaut and cope with its impacts, according to a UN-backed report ...
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Nov 8, 2022
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