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'GreenVillage' declaration for Namatakula
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OP-ED: Beyond Houston, a World Awash
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAugust 31, 2017Houston isn’t the only major city reeling from record rainfall and devastating floods. In Mumbai, India, where summer monsoons are annual events,...
Spotlight: Hurricane Harvey renews debate over Trump's climate policies
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An area is flooded in Galveston, about 75 kilometers southwest of Houston, the United States, Aug. 29, 2017. Tropical storm Harvey has broken...
Sustainability finance lessons, from Adidas to Starbucks
As more retailers seek ways to pay for energy and sustainability upgrades, we’ve seen the benefits of alternative financing approaches accumulate for companies such as...
Climate adaptation cash is failing to reach the poorest, heres how to fix it
The recent rejection of two major adaptation projects by the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from Bangladesh and Ethiopia has caused the board...
Green finance facility eyed for Asia-Pacific
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed the creation of national green financing vehicles to catalyze environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructure investments in Asia...
Small-island states advised to ramp up lobby for adaptation money, emissions reduction
AS THE 23rd global climate talks near, Caribbean and other small-island developing states (SIDS) are advised to boost their lobby for adaptation funding and...
Worlds soils have lost 133 billion tonnes of carbon since the dawn of agriculture,...
The degradation of the Earth’s soil by humans has been an environmental catastrophe on a similar scale to the deforestation of much of the...
Bears choosing vegetarian diet due to climate change
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Brown bears in Alaska are switching to a vegetarian diet of elderberries rather than salmon because the warmer temperatures are ripening the fruit earlier...
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