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Africa: Pope Francis Enters Climate Change Maelstrom
Daily Maverick, 17 June 2015
A much speculated on and debated encyclical on ecology is due to be released by Pope Francis later this week. The encyclical has caused a storm before its publication. Some… Read more »
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IFPRI, 16 June 2015
In light of Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan has issued a statement calling on the international community to use this opportunity to… Read more »
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Africa: Pilgrims On the Move Towards Cop21 and Climate Justice
WCC, 11 June 2015
As organizations worldwide intensify their work on issues of climate justice, and the clock is ticking for new climate commitments to take shape, members of the World Council of… Read more »
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Africa: Poorest States Urge Action On Climate Damage in Paris Deal
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 10 June 2015
The world's poorest countries plan to push hard for a new global climate change deal, due in December, to address the losses and damage already being caused by worsening extreme… Read more »
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Namibia: Swakopmund Matters Supports Pope's Encyclical
Namibian, 1 June 2015
NAMIBIA'S environmental watchdog Swakopmund Matters (SM) says it supports Pope Francis' upcoming environmental encyclical expected to be made at the end of June. Read more »
Pope Francis Enters Climate Change Maelstrom
The storm around this encyclical is, in some ways, understandable not least because climate change and global warming are hot-button issues in the current political arena - not unlike migration, writes Russell Pollitt for the Daily Maverick.
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Africa can boost its capacity to generate power - and, as a result, economic growth and jobs - without precipitating catastrophic climate change, Kofi Annan has argued in an ... Read more »
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There were hopes that the Peru talks would yield a robust process for increasing climate finance in the years up to 2020, before a new global climate pact due to be agreed in Paris ... Read more »
Newly elected Pope Francis I, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
