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Coal mining, oil industries among main sources of increasing air pollution in Africa – study
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Coal mining, oil industries among main sources of increasing air pollution in Africa – study

A recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience presents evidence that shows that the burning of biomass fuel for cooking, heating, and lighting, the crude oil exploitation and coal mining industries, as well as old vehicles being shipped in from Europe are causing severe deterioration of air quality in African countries. According to the article, particulate matter concentration levels in many African...

The Climate Summit Is a Sick Joke. You Should Be Angry and Afraid | Opinion
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The Climate Summit Is a Sick Joke. You Should Be Angry and Afraid | Opinion

The annual United Nations climate summit started yesterday. We’re up to the 28th edition: “COP28.” Past UN summits have obviously failed us, but this is a new low. Everyone on Earth needs to know that the meeting has been overrun by fossil fuel executives, making it a sick, planet-destroying joke. There’s no real hope of stopping catastrophic global...

Fossil fuel lobbies are hijacking COP
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Fossil fuel lobbies are hijacking COP

As the COP28 approaches, which will take place in Dubai at the end of the month, a coalition of NGOs has warned about the accreditation of more than 7,200 lobbyists linked to fossil fuels in international climate conferences over the past twenty years. The main oil giants are particularly targeted. Like parasites, lobbyists infiltrate the...

Global Witness and COP28: People not Polluters
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Global Witness and COP28: People not Polluters

The choices and actions taken this decade will impact us all – and future generations to come.  We know the solutions, and this includes dismantling the fossil fuel economy, properly governing the extraction of “transition minerals,” and preventing money flowing to businesses carrying out deforestation and other biodiversity-wrecking business activities.  And we know some of...

The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution
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The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution

Since their inception more than 30 years ago, carbon offsets have given false comfort to those seeking easy solutions to the climate crisis. Encouraging one party to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, while paying another to do the opposite has been a giant diversion: side-tracking us from decarbonising our economies and lives. One scandal after another has...

Migrant workers toil in perilous heat to prepare for Cop28 climate talks in UAE
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Migrant workers toil in perilous heat to prepare for Cop28 climate talks in UAE

Migrant workers in Dubai have been working in dangerously hot temperatures to get conference facilities ready for world leaders attending this year’s international Cop28 climate talks, according to a new investigation. FairSquare, a human rights research and advocacy group, obtained evidence of more than a dozen migrant workers from Africa and Asia labouring outside at three Cop28...

Human-driven climate change made South America’s deadly heatwaves 100 times more likely, study says
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Human-driven climate change made South America’s deadly heatwaves 100 times more likely, study says

If global warming reaches 2°C, similar heatwaves are predicted to happen every five or six years, a new study warns. Human-induced climate change made the recent winter heatwave in South America 100 times more likely, according to a study published on Tuesday. Global warming was the main driver of the extreme weather that scorched much of...

It’s Time to Boycott COP-OUT 28
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It’s Time to Boycott COP-OUT 28

To keep pretending, year after year, decade after decade, that the U.N. process is working when everyone can see that it is failing, is its own kind of denial. Every year, the world’s governments gather at what the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, calls a Conference of the Parties, or COP,...

Hypocrisy at COP28: How Fossil Fuel Expansion by Wealthy Nations Undermines Climate Action
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Hypocrisy at COP28: How Fossil Fuel Expansion by Wealthy Nations Undermines Climate Action

International climate policy experts , hailing from the “Global South” have denounced the ‘hypocrisy’ of some developed countries for their continued expansion of fossil fuel production despite lofty promises to combat climate change and have asked them to come clean to the COP28 in Dubai and demonstrate genuine leadership. The new report titled ‘Planet Wreckers:...