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Africa: Adaptation Measures Key to Averting Impacts of Climate Change Disasters in Africa
UNEP, 8 December 2014
The workshop on enhancing the Horn of Africa Adaptive and Responsive Capacity to Climate Change Impacts was set against the backdrop of recent severe droughts in the Sahel in 2012,… Read more »
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Africa: Africa Pushes for Adaptation As a Priority At Lima Climate Change Conference
EAC, 11 December 2014
Over 190 governments are gathered in Lima, Peru, for the UN Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of Parties (COP), from 1 - 12 December 2014 to hold talks on a new… Read more »
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Seychelles: Nation Will Be Vocal in Its Plea to Limit Global Temperatures to Below 1.5°c
Seychelles News Agency, 11 December 2014
As the Seychelles islands joined the tough climate negotiations in Peru this week, the islands' foreign minister Jean Paul Adam urged the world to find solutions to climate change… Read more »
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Seychelles: Govt Receives U.S.$6.4 Million in Climate Change Grants From EU
Seychelles News Agency, 2 December 2014
The Foreign Affairs Minister of Seychelles, Jean-Paul Adam, has signed two grant agreements with the executive body of the European Union totalling $6.4 million. Read more »
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Nigeria: EU to Reduce Dependence On Gas, Oil Supplies
Guardian, 2 December 2014
IN order to reduce dependence on one single supplier, the European Union (EU) must further diversify gas and oil supplies, and cannot afford to reduce its energy options: nuclear,… Read more »
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Africa: Climate Change Adaptation Comes of Age
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 1 December 2014
In Peru, where two weeks of U.N. climate talks begin Monday, melting glaciers and more extreme weather such as hot spells and flash frosts are already harming crops and incomes,… Read more »