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Africa: Meles Wants Climate Talks to Limit Global Warming
Business Daily, 4 September 2009
Africa's climate negotiators led by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, threatened to walk out of talks if the December climate summit in Copenhagen failed to consider Africa's… Read more »
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Africa: Govts Demand Billions Over Climate Change
SciDev.Net, 27 August 2009
African ministers agreed this week to recommend that the African Union should demand US$67 billion per year from the global community in compensation for the effects of climate… Read more »
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Africa: A Rough Guide to Climate Change in Continent
UNIRIN, 9 September 2009
Reports and estimates of the impact of climate change appear almost daily, but those by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change remain the authoritative voice. Read more »
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Africa: Continent's Farmers to Help Over Climate Change?
IPS, 5 September 2009
"African farmers will play a major part in the solution of climate change mitigation," predicts Dennis Garrity, head of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Read more »
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Africa: Continent Must Unite for Fair Climate Change Deal
New Times, 3 September 2009
As the momentum builds towards the United Nations, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, scheduled for next December, the tempo has been raised in the ongoing discussions as to how… Read more »
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Africa: Climate Change 'Threatens Continent's Security'
IPS, 28 August 2009
Africa is the canary in the mine of global security, as climate change threatens to redraw the maps of the continent and the world. Read more »
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Africa: The Challenge for Copenhagen: Save the Forests!
COP15, 25 August 2009
The short rains failed, and drought has hit Kenya again. Without water, farmers are watching their crops whither. Ten million people, almost a third of the population, are facing… Read more »
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Africa: Continent Builds United Stand on Climate Change
IPS, 25 August 2009
An African Union proposal demanding billions of dollars in compensation for the impacts of climate change is taking shape. Read more »
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Nigeria: Country Seeks Global Climate Change Bailout
This Day, 4 September 2009
Nigeria has called on development partners to come to the aid of African countries as they grapple with the effort to manage the devastating impact of climate change. Read more »
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Kenya: Wrong Approach to Climate Talks
Nation, 5 September 2009
A few days ago Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced that Africa will walk out of global climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December unless its US$300bn climate… Read more »
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Africa: The Rich Cheating the Continent On Climate
Citizen, 4 September 2009
The developed countries are engaging in rough play against Africa on the issue of climate change, but there is no referee to blow the whistle. As a result, Africans are… Read more »
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Africa: Continent's New Climate Leader Outlines Continent's Stance
SciDev.Net, 4 September 2009
Africa should not be seen as a charity case in global negotiations on climate change, the continent's newly chosen chief negotiator said yesterday (3 September). Read more »
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Africa: Adaptation to Climate Change Focus of Meeting in Geneva
America.gov, 28 August 2009
For the first time since scientists determined unequivocally that the planet is warming, experts who collect and analyze climate data and those who manage the world's land and… Read more »
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Africa: Experts Meet on Climate Change
African Union, 25 August 2009
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Africa: Climate Change Will Hit Africa Hardest, Says Ping
African Union, 25 August 2009
Opening statement by Dr. Jean Ping, chairperson of the African Union Commission, to a meeting of the representatives of the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on… Read more »
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Africa: African Common Position On Climate Change In Africa
African Union, 25 August 2009
The Meeting of Representatives of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) on the climate change (CAHOSCC) and lead experts is scheduled to take… Read more »