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Poll: Voters say U.S. should participate in Paris Agreement

In December 2015, officials from 197 countries (nearly every country in the world) met in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21)...

Trump’s EPA moves to dismantle programmes that protect kids from lead paint

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials are proposing to eliminate two programmes focused on limiting children’s exposure to lead-based paint, which is known to cause damage...

Crusaders tag Trump’s climate Executive Order ‘an injustice to Mother Earth’

President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate Change will have far reaching impacts on many developing countries, especially on the African continent, which is already...

Standoff between Trump, green groups boils into war

The first shots have been fired in what’s likely to be a long, bitter war over the environment between conservationists and President Donald Trump...

Experts predict Trump’s promise to bring back coal jobs ‘will not be kept’

Lifting a moratorium against leases for coal mining on public lands will not create demand for coal as power companies continue to shift to...

Why Trump’s climate reversal action wasn’t a surprise

President Donald Trump’s action on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 to cancel the Clean Power Plan wasn’t a surprise. It had been promised for weeks, part of...

Shock, outrage as Trump reverses US progress on climate action

The world stood in shock as US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 signed executive orders rolling back the Clean Power Plan...

Knocks, as Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline

US president, Donald Trump, on Friday, March 24, 2017 approved a federal permit applied for by TransCanada to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. The...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming...
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African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts and representatives of civil society, adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration...

How agriculture restored peace between farmers, pastoralists in Plateau

In nearly every community I have worked in across Plateau State, I have heard some version of the same...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into...

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts...