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The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environment Agency –Abu Dhabi (EAD) announced significant progress in implementing the Abu Dhabi Climate Change Strategy 2023–2027. The strategy aims to enhance the emirate’s resilience to climate change risks, support efforts to achieve climate neutrality goals and the outcomes of the UAE Consensus, continue the UAE’s global leadership in sustainability, and ensure sustainable economic growth. ...more |
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Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient. ...more |
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A landmark agreement reached in Paris in 2015 to fight climate change requires countries to set targets and report on progress reducing national levels of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. ...more |
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India's government plans to clamp down on polluting farm fires by measuring the areas burnt instead of live blazes, after reports that farmers were burning paddy waste or stubble at times when satellites were not passing overhead. ...more |
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The Bahamas has unlocked more than $120 million to fund the conservation and management of its oceans and mangroves with a debt swap financed by Standard Chartered and backed by the private sector. ...more |
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Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune has announced scrapping the ministry of renewable energy in a fresh cabinet reshuffle that has sparked fears of environmental degradation. ...more |
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Division and discontent spilled into the open on Thursday at a U.N. climate summit in Baku, sparked by a proposal for a new global finance deal which offered two vastly different options and left no one happy as the closing deadline neared. ...more |
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More than 50 governments have signed a U.N. declaration to make tourism around the globe more climate friendly, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in what it hailed as a major achievement of the climate summit in Azerbaijan. ...more |
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A decade ago, it seemed as though the global nuclear industry was in an irreversible decline. ...more |
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They are the tallest animal to roam the Earth and have become an icon of children’s books, toys and awed wildlife documentaries. But giraffes are in decline, which has prompted the US government to list them as endangered for the first time. ...more |
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