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Opinion: Over two-thirds of our food footprint is attributable to animal-based foods, which are much more energy and land-intensive.

US News: Wealthy countries have reduced their financial commitments for helping developing nations cope with climate change, according to a United Nations repo

As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, the world must spend hundreds of billions more a year - 10 to 18 times more than it currently spends - helping vulnerable people adapt to mounting devastation, United Nations experts said Thursday. The warning comes as millions of people suffer amid severe droughts, catastrophic wildfires and ruinous floods fueled by rising global temperatures. It also comes less than a month before the next U.N. Climate Change Conference,

Rich country promises of help for poorer ones to adapt to climate change have slowed despite more frequent extreme weather, with a shortfall now 50% bigger than previously estimated, a U.N. agency said in a report said on Thursday. The $100 billion pledge, which has not been fully secured, was aimed at helping poorer countries not only mitigate climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but also to adapt to rising temperatures and sea levels. However, the annual financing shortfall fo...

Promises from rich countries to help poorer ones adapt to climate change are not increasing on the scale needed to meet the funding gaps leaving the world’s most vulnerable people at risk, a United Nations…

Here is what some are doing to address disasters in Antigua and Barbuda.The Green Climate Fund (GCF) granted more than $46 million to the...

Mandiri Capital Indonesia has agreed to launch a global climate tech fund with Australian early-stage investor Investible.

In mid-October 2023, Yemen’s foreign minister traveled to Kenya to attend the Munich Leaders Meeting in Nairobi and met with Kenyan officials on the sidelines. Although bilateral ties between the two countries date back centuries, Yemeni-Kenyan relations have yet to reach their full potential. The conclusion of a political consultation agreement would pave the way for the resumption of ministerial-level bilateral committees between the two governments.

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Israel is responsible for Gaza's worsening environmental crisis. By limiting what is fished, what comes in and out of Gaza, and routinely bombing civilian and agricultural infrastructure, Israel has contributed to Gaza's barely liveable conditions.