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Climate change bill signed into law, paving way for comprehensive climate action

By Lee-Yandra Paulsen "We are not only dealing with a climate change catastrophe; we are also addressing significant biodiversity issues. Having the Minister of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, Dion George involved in this work and wielding such power aligns our actions toward reducing biodiversity loss while combating climate change." This is according to Jacqueline Rukanda, Programme Manager of the Affirming Rights Programme at Natural Justice, on […]

24 July 2024

Local

Environmental Activists Rally Against Oil and Gas Industry at CTICC

By Lee-Yandra Paulsen Environmental justice organizations gathered outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) to protest the Southern African oil and gas conference on Wednesday, 13 September 2023. Their aim was to demand climate justice and resist the influence of oil and gas corporations. People of all ages joined the protest to express their concerns for the environment. Jacqui Tooke from Extinction Rebellion Cape Town emphasized the need to […]

13 September 2023

International

Historic ‘loss and damage’ fund adopted at COP27 climate summit

INTERNATIONAL Countries at the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt have adopted a final agreement that establishes a fund to help poor nations cope with the extreme weather events caused by global warming. Following tense negotiations that ran through the night, the summit’s Egyptian presidency released a draft text of the overall agreement early on Sunday and also called a plenary session to push the document through as the final, overarching agreement for […]

20 November 2022

International

Egypt: How ‘smart crops’ are used to mitigate effects of climate change

INTERNATIONAL The past few years have been especially daunting for Abul Mahasen Mohamed, a farmer from the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya. High temperatures, water scarcity and rising salinity in the soil deprived him and fellow farmers of sizeable crop yields. "Some people sustained huge losses," Mohamed told Middle East Eye. "Extreme heat burned some crops and devastated some farms." This year, Mohamed is growing a new maize variety that […]

3 September 2022

International

Greenland already locked in to huge sea level rise: Study

INTERNATIONAL Greenland’s fast-melting ice sheet will cause a huge sea level rise with potentially ominous implications over this century as temperatures continue to rise, according to a study published on Monday. Melting “zombie” ice from the enormous Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise the global sea level by at least 27 centimetres (10 inches) just on its own. “Zombie”, or doomed ice is still attached to thicker areas of the sheet but […]

30 August 2022

Local

Climate change doubles chance of repeat killer floods, say global experts

The floods that devastated parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in April, killing 435 people, were definitely linked to climate change and can be expected every 20 years. The interval predicted by World Weather Attribution, a group of climate scientists, meteorologists and disaster experts, is half what they said it would be without climate change. The experts said the two-day storm that caused the floods was the latest evidence that […]

14 May 2022

Local

Premier urges WC residents to comment on Climate Change Response strategy

The Western Cape Government has asked the public to comment on its Climate Change Response strategy. The provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning launched the strategy as the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) continues in Glascow, Scotland. The highly anticipated conference, which kicked off on 31 October 2021, comes at a crucial point in human history, during which industry experts have warned that earth is at […]

9 November 2021

News

‘Code red for humanity’: UN report gives stark warning on climate change, says wild weather events will worsen

INTERNATIONAL Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole of Earth’s climate system; in the atmosphere, in the oceans, ice […]

10 August 2021

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In fire-hit southern Turkey, vigilantes search for alleged arsonists

The village of Dogancay in southern Turkey’s Antalya was hours away from being consumed by fire, then the wind changed direction. Today its residents are determined to keep it safe. From the fires that have ravaged swathes of Turkey, yes, but also from the perceived threat of Kurdish militant arsonists. “It is impossible that the fire began on its own!” a man at the village entrance snapped at another, who had been trying to tell […]

7 August 2021

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