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21 08 2023 | 19:11

SOUTH AFRICA: IFC lends $236 million to Absa to finance green buildings

Electricity bills in South Africa could soon be lower thanks to a partnership between Absa Bank and the International Finance Corporation to finance resource-efficient buildings. The International…

21 08 2023 | 19:05

NORTH AFRICA: what the AfDB recommends to accelerate green growth

"The North African Economic Outlook 2023 has just been published.

21 08 2023 | 19:01

MOROCCO/CAMEROON: Yaoundé and Rabat to strengthen their meteorological cooperation

After signing a bilateral agreement on meteorology with Algeria in May 2023, Cameroon has announced that it will be stepping up its cooperation with Morocco to pool their expertise in this field.…

21 08 2023 | 18:56

BENIN/TOGO: a €57m credit line for Spiro’s electric motorbikes

GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and the French bank Société Générale have granted a credit facility of 37.8 billion CFA francs to finance electric…

21 08 2023 | 18:42

DRC: Kinshasa, Jakarta and Brasilia get together for the Three Basins Summit

Aware of the economic and ecological potential of their tropical forests, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Brazil and Indonesia have agreed to meet in Kinshasa on 25 August…

21 08 2023 | 18:36

‘Humans everywhere’: lions cling on in Ethiopia’s last patches of wilderness

‘It’s not just the lions that are under pressure, it’s biodiversity in general,’ warn conservationists, amid a rapidly expanding human population.   Standing in a patch of damp forest, a clump of…

21 08 2023 | 17:59

ACW 2023: in September, Nairobi will be Africa’s climate capital

The Kenyan capital will be the epicentre of activities during Africa Climate Week (ACW), which begins on 4 September 2023. Among the events scheduled for Nairobi are the African Climate Action Summit…

21 08 2023 | 17:59

In Italy, retreating Apennine glacier leaves ghost town behind

This article is part of Euractiv's special report Europe’s melting glaciers. Once a trendy outpost for Roman actors looking for a weekend of skiing and nightclubbing, the town of Pietracamela in…

21 08 2023 | 17:43

Buildings directive: German NGOs pressure Berlin to back obligatory renovations

German civil society has asked Berlin to back a controversial European Commission proposal to make renovating worst-performing buildings obligatory before buildings directive negotiations continue…

21 08 2023 | 17:19

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet

The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health. The average daily global sea surface…

21 08 2023 | 17:18

Amazon deal lacks concrete measures, say climate activists

The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. Delegates from the countries are meeting in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day summit…

21 08 2023 | 17:01

How is sign language adapting to climate change?

For deaf children, teachers and scientists, talking about things like "greenhouse gases" or "carbon footprint" used to mean spelling out long, complex scientific terms, letter by letter. Now they…

21 08 2023 | 16:49

UK windfarm red tape to cost billpayers £1.5bn a year, say analysts

Analysis finds Treasury rules on new windfarms likely to stifle energy generation and keep bills high.   New offshore windfarms will be strangled by government red tape, costing UK billpayers £1.…

21 08 2023 | 16:49

Charge us with contempt too, say 40 people, if climate activist prosecuted

Fellow activists who have made protests similar to Trudi Warner’s challenge solicitor general as he decides whether to charge her.   Forty people, including an Olympic gold medallist and a former…

21 08 2023 | 16:35

UN climate summit host UAE failed to report methane emissions to UN

Exclusive: State oil firm, whose chief will preside over Cop28, also accused of ‘incoherent’ reduction targets.   The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in…

18 08 2023 | 18:48

It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess

From air-purified penthouses and private jets, a wealthy anti-green lobby feigns common cause with ‘ordinary people’. Let’s expose that.  

18 08 2023 | 18:40

90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report

But experts say damage can be reversed if US and Canada act quickly to stop new plastics from entering lake system.   About 90% of water samples taken over the last 10 years from the Great Lakes…

18 08 2023 | 18:33

As temperatures soar and wildfires burn abroad, summer dread is returning to my body

As the Australian summer approaches, my apprehension is both a daily shock and uncannily normalised – and I know I’m not the only one feeling it.   These days, when I come back into the house after…

18 08 2023 | 18:28

The Guardian view on protecting corals: what lies beneath matters too

Mass bleaching events go largely unseen, but a quarter of marine species and half a billion humans depend upon reefs.  

18 08 2023 | 18:22

Tropical storms killing more Americans as climate crisis deepens, study finds

Named tropical storms and hurricanes, which have become more intense, have caused about 20,000 more deaths from 1988 to 2019.   Atlantic storms have become deadlier as the planet warms – and are…