African health experts have linked a surge in outbreaks of diseases in the continent to increased adverse climatic events. Patrick Otim, the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Incident Manager for the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, [Read More]
CAIRO – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt agreed on Tuesday to develop one of the world’s largest onshore wind farms in Egypt, Egypt’s presidency said in a statement on its website. Egyptian President [Read More]
A huge slogan — “We need 100 billion (U.S. dollars) annually to save our rainforests” — on the wall of the Papua New Guinea pavilion has grabbed wide attention. At the ongoing 27th Conference of [Read More]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, — Egypt and Belgium jointly launched a global renewable hydrogen forum here on Tuesday, as the world is seeking to find environmentally friendly solutions to energy problems, the Egyptian Presidency said in a [Read More]
Ghanaian Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has urged renewed and clear commitment from global leaders to deepen international collaborations to ensure sustainable management of the earth. He said that natural disasters such as heatwaves, wildfires, and [Read More]
The upcoming 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an opportunity for countries to boost their efforts to tackle the issue, an Australian scholar [Read More]
President Anastasiades will present Cyprus’ initiative for tackling the consequences of climate change, at the sidelines of the COP-27 Summit in Sharm El Sheikh this week. Anastasiades will depart later for Egypt. The Cyprus initiative [Read More]
Climate change could be twice as deadly as cancer in some parts of the world if carbon emissions remain high, according to new data released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Climate Impact [Read More]
The Horn of Africa has registered a rise in conflicts because of an increase in climate disasters, experts said on Friday. Linda Ogallo, a climate adaptation expert at the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate [Read More]
Climate change is dramatically affecting vulnerable people across the globe, particularly those who live in conflict situations or do not have sufficient access to basic health care, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [Read More]
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