Standard Bank lending to fossil fuel industries stands at $4 bln
STANDARD Bank, Africa’s largest lender by assets, has 67.4 billion rand ($4 billion) in loans and commitments to the coal,
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Surge in natural disasters takes heavy human and economic toll – U.N.
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY EXTREME weather events have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, taking a heavy human and economic toll
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‘Uninhabitable hell’: Climate change and disease threaten millions, UN warns
MEGAN ROWLING A jump in climate-related disasters this century, along with the global coronavirus pandemic, show political and business leaders are failing
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Climate-menaced nations say survival depends on stronger 2020 action
DEVELOPING countries at risk from wilder weather and rising seas urged all governments to meet a deadline to deliver stronger
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For Ugandan activist, COVID curbs set new hurdle in climate fight
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA IN a run-down residential compound in Kampala, Vanessa Nakate thrusts her fist in the air as she rallies
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Cities promise to divest from fossil fuels to boost green recovery
MEGAN ROWLING THE mayors of 12 big cities in North America, Europe and Africa pledged on Tuesday to shift their
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Trump blames ‘forest management’ as Western wildfires become election issue
TREVOER HUNNICUTT and JEFF MASON THE wildfires sweeping the west coast states have assumed centre stage in the U.S. election
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Young lives on the line: #climatecrisis
NICKY MILNE and VALERIA CARDI AS the threats of climate change continue to worsen, 16 young people are taking the fight
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These African World Heritage Sites are under threat from climate change
JOANNE CLARKE, Senior lecturer, University of East Anglia; ELIZABETH EDNA WANGUI, Associate professor, Ohio University GRACE W. NGARUIYA, Lecturer, Kenyatta
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Women step forward in push to nurture African climate scientists
BUSANI BAFANA AS a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents’ small farm growing maize and pigeon
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