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24 10 2023 | 18:40

DRC: High-tech garbage can arrives in Kinshasa to reform solid waste sorting

From the University of Kinshasa, a group of students is contributing to solid waste management in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The "Odia" intelligent garbage can, launched…

24 10 2023 | 18:30

From Paris to Dakar, innovating to better manage water in the face of climate change

At a time when Africa and the rest of the world are being severely affected by water stress, preserving available resources remains a sensible solution for supplying people with water. SUEZ, the…

24 10 2023 | 18:21

KENYA: SunCulture receives funding for solar irrigation and agricultural innovation

Solar-powered irrigation systems provider SunCulture has secured funding to promote solar irrigation in Africa and accelerate agricultural innovation in the context of the food crisis. The funds are…

24 10 2023 | 18:16

For 4 climate actors, sustainable housing is the key to successful urban development

At the opening of the Fifth Climate Chance Africa Conference (CCHA) on Housing and Urban Development in Yaoundé on 23 October 2023, participants from all continents clearly grasped the urgent need to…

24 10 2023 | 18:09

Financing loss and damage: the West’s position threatens the progress made at COP27

Western countries are sticking to their position on the arrangements for setting up a fund for loss and damage caused by climate change. The fourth meeting on the implementation of this mechanism,…

24 10 2023 | 18:05

“AirQo”, the technological innovation that measures and warns of pollution peaks

Air pollution indices have never been worse around the world, particularly in Africa. At least nine out of ten people on the continent breathe polluted air, according to environmentalists. Among the…

24 10 2023 | 17:57

In Africa, “SUEZ innovates for sustainable water and waste management”

SUEZ wants to make innovation the main lever for its development around the world, particularly in Africa where the Group is very active in water and sanitation management, as well as waste…

24 10 2023 | 17:44

Pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, dry fermentation. ways to clean pollution in Africa

In addition to the prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse of waste prescribed in the United Nations (UN) twelfth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12) to reduce pollution by 2030, there is…

23 10 2023 | 18:06

‘I won’t pay for them to pollute my river’: why a water bills boycott in England is growing

Angler Mike Deacon is among a growing number of customers refusing to pay water companies as they protest against sewage spillages and contamination For 13 years, Mike Deacon monitored pollution…

23 10 2023 | 18:01

Welsh Water admits spilling untreated sewage near dolphin habitat for decade

The company released wastewater from treatment plants despite overflow levels not being hit Welsh Water has admitted to spilling untreated sewage near a rare dolphin habitat for at least a decade.

23 10 2023 | 17:55

Chevron to buy oil and gas producer Hess Corp in $53bn all-stock deal

Chevron has announced it will buy the US fossil fuel producer Hess Corporation in a $53bn (£44bn) all-stock deal, as it seeks to increase its presence in oil-rich Guyana. The announcement comes less…

23 10 2023 | 17:47

UK must offer businesses certainty over green energy, says boss of FTSE 100 firm

Miles Roberts of packaging-maker DS Smith warns manufacturing will decline unless government provides clarity about decarbonisation The UK risks seeing its manufacturing sector fall behind rival…

23 10 2023 | 17:43

‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

Exclusive: ex-officials at the Food and Agriculture Organization say its leadership censored and undermined them when they highlighted how livestock methane is a major greenhouse gas The night…

23 10 2023 | 17:33

Surging renewable energy sees record supply to Australia’s electricity grid

At one point in September nearly 100% of eastern Australia’s demand could have been met by renewables, says energy operator Aemo For a half hour in the middle of a Saturday last month, enough …

23 10 2023 | 17:25

Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

Exclusive: Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources Former officials in the UN’s farming wing have said they were…

23 10 2023 | 17:17

‘Crabs everywhere’: off Canada’s Pacific coast, Indigenous Haida fight a host of invasive species

The unique wildlife of Haida Gwaii’s 150 islands is under attack by invasive crabs, rats and deer – echoing how local people also became vulnerable to outside forces It was Matt Peck’s first season…

23 10 2023 | 17:11

Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company

Endorsement of British American Tobacco by Climate Active was revoked after complaint was made, FoI documents show The government has been forced to revoke carbon neutral certification given to a…

23 10 2023 | 16:58

Climate activists force Fed chair Jerome Powell off stage in New York

On Thursday protesters chanted: ‘Off fossil finance!’ and held a banner reading: ‘Fed Is Burning: Money, Futures, Planet’   The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, was escorted out of an event…

23 10 2023 | 16:47

Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate damage

It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster “Absolutely gobsmackingly bananas” is not standard scientific language,…

23 10 2023 | 16:42

Global carbon emissions from electric power may peak this year, report says

Thinktank says rapid growth of wind and solar is near rate required if world is to hit 2030 target as part of 1.5C pathway Carbon emissions from the global electricity sector may peak this year,…

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