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African climate diplomats reject African Union’s pro-gas stance for Cop27
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NASA’s Mineral Dust Detector Starts Gathering Data
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Rich countries fall $17bn short of 2020 climate finance goal
Rich countries have fallen almost $17bn short of their pledge to collectively deliver $100 billion of climate finance a year by 2020, according to...
US set to fine oil and gas companies for methane leaks
A proposed US climate bill will introduce a charge on methane leaks from oil and gas facilities, believed by experts to be the first...
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