The African Youth Climate Hub (AYCH), an African Youth climate platform, today formally called for application to its Climate Start-up Incubation Program promoting sustainable development. AYCH as a partnership between the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, OCP Group and YOUNGO (Children and Youth Constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) was launched by Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, at the Climate Action Summit chaired by the United Nations Secretary-General in New York in September 2019.
This new Hub brings the voice and actions of young Africans to the forefront, boosting their leadership for climate protection and sustainable development. Based at the Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training, the academic arm of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection the African Youth Climate Hub
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The COVID-19 crisis has not only led to a health crisis in the developing nations but has been also accompanied by a socio-economic and economic fallout. The Non-Aligned Movement, being the largest representative of the developing world, has stressed on devising measures aimed at mitigating socio-economic and environmental fallout from COVID-19 in a sustainable manner and through cooperation among the developing world.
One of the major initiatives in the developing world to address the social and environmental aspects of the COVID-19 crisis was taken recently by the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). Established in December 1985, following a conference of African Ministers of Environment held in Cairo, Egypt, AMCEM’s mandate is to provide advocacy for environmental protection in Africa, to ensure that basic human needs are met adequately and in a sustainable manner, to ensure that social and economic development is realized
Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”
“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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25 January 2021
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“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
(Margot Duterme
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We may all be in the same boat, but not all of us have access to the lifeboats. This expression, borrowed from the Cameroonian economist Thierry Amougou in his contribution to the collective publication
EU and US should set example in climate policy - Latvian Foreign Ministry s parliamentary secretary 2021-01-25
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RIGA - On January 22, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zanda Kalnina Lukasevica, took part in an informal webex meeting on global climate diplomacy between representatives from EU Member States and John Kerry, the United States President’s Special Envoy for Climate, addressing climate diplomacy issues and exchanging views on the ways for speeding the transition to cleaner sources of energy, LETA learned from the ministry.
“Latvia is delighted to see that with the first steps of the new administration, Europe and the U.S. stand united against climate change. Our unity is indispensable for both European and global security,” the Parliamentary Secretary underlined. Kalnina Lukasevica welcomed the commitment by the new United States Administration to assigning a high priority to the climate agenda, and she concurred that th
Due global climate adaptation actions not possible for lack of finance: PM
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DHAKA, Jan 25, 2021 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the lack of finance and political will were responsible for not taking due global actions for adapting to the damages caused by the adverse impact of the climate change.
“Adapting to the damage already done is as important as the process of reducing future losses and damages. But global adaptation actions are far from keeping pace with the scale of devastation due to lack of finance and political will,” she said.
She added that the recent experience of COVID-19 has proved the importance of being united and acting on time.