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Expert: Tanzania needs climate policy to coordinate efforts

By: Deodatus Mfugale on December 8th, 2011

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Many Tanzanians are determined to help the country deal with the impacts of climate change, but their resolve has been hampered by a lack of domestic policies to coordinate climate change adaption activities.

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Report: employ disaster-risk management to reduce climate impacts

By: Deodatus Mfugale on December 7th, 2011

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Tanzanians and indeed all developing countries should brace for more disasters arising from extreme weather events caused by climate change as a result of human activities, the UN climate science body recently reported.

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Durban city offers summit goers a chance to offset carbon

By: Maria Gabriela Ensinck on December 7th, 2011

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One of the side effects of a huge climate change summit is its own carbon footprint. Durban, the host of this year’s UN climate talks in South Africa, offers attendees a way to reduce the size of it.

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Opinion: mountain countries threatened by climate change

By: Ramesh Prasad Bhushal on December 7th, 2011

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Nepalese journalist Ramesh Prasad Bhushal explains how mountain regions like the Himalayas are threatened by climate change and need urgent help.

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Rural women strike back!

By: Dave Durbach on December 6th, 2011

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For women in rural areas, life can be especially tough. Tired of suffering in silence, rural women from across southern Africa, and many from further away, gathered outside the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre in Durban to make their voices heard during the COP17 climate change conference.

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Tanzania may benefit from new climate change research programme

By: Deodatus Mfugale on December 6th, 2011

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Tanzania and other East African countries might now be able to undertake extensive research on climate change beginning next year.

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Ajizi ya kukabiliana na mabadiliko ya tabianchi ni kiama: Wataalamu

By: Deodatus Mfugale on December 5th, 2011

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This story in Kiswahili is about a warning on imminent natural disasters given by the World Meteorological Organisation. Politicians should take seriously the scientific evidence on rising temperatures and take urgent measures.

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Calls for a fair share of finance to help women feed Africa

By: Tiwonge Ng'ona on December 4th, 2011

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The simple act of getting more money into the hand of the women farmers of Africa could give a big boost to food production and efforts to adapt to climate change, say nongovernmental organisations.

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Why COP17 Matters

By: Heather King on November 30th, 2011

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Heather King neatly sums up why COP17 matters and why many insiders say the Kyoto Protocol is not the be and end all.

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A Nigerian quest for better use of wood fuel

By: Ugochi_Anyaka on August 2nd, 2011

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Ugochi Anyaka reports on the health effects that people suffer when the burn wood as fuel in their homes – and how tackling this problem can help to limit climate change too.

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