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Africa’s Green Fund for action on climate change
No commentsAt the COP16, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced plans to create the Africa Green Fund (AGF), an mechanism designed to enable African countries access global resources to tackle climate challenges. Ugochi Anyaka reports from Cancun, Mexico.
»Green technology to boost communication
No commentsIn a bid to reduce the world’s carbon footprint, a computer manufacturing company has introduced a new form of “green technology” that not only makes communication efficient and but also environmentally friendly. It’s the Visual Collaboration Technology, a high definition video conferencing software that boasts clear vision and audio telecommunication.
»Fossil nations: bad for the climate but good for journalists
No commentsWhile each fossil award means bad news for the climate-change negotiations, it can be good news for journalists in search of insight into the talks and a story to report.
»First day headaches at Cancun
No commentsDelegates, press and observers arriving for the first day of the UNFCCC Climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, met with long delays, traffic queues and mutiple bus journeys as they battled to get to the actual conference centre – a hotel by the sea called the Moon Palace. Last year in Copenhagen delegates were faced with long waits in sub zero temperatures – this year they have to wait in the tropical sun of Cancun. Richelle Seton Rogers from South Africa Broadcasting Corporation reports on her own personal journey to reach the Moon Palace.
»Journalists from climate-change frontline to keep world’s eyes focused on UN negotiations
1 commentHundreds of millions of people across the world will receive daily updates on the latest international efforts to tackle climate change thanks to an innovative media support programme.
»Cancun: The prospects look modest
No commentsFour CCMP 2010 fellows bound for the Cancun climate conference were among the journalists from Latin America who contributed to a recent workshop in Mexico City held by the UN Information Centre. They worked hard, and they learned plenty.
»The EU States its Case
No commentsThe European Journalism Centre, with the backing of the European Commission, invited around a hundred journalists from EU countries and around the world to a conference in Brussels in late October, to spell out the European Union’s position before the forthcoming COP-16 in Mexico, the sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). One of the journalists, from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, describes her impressions.
»COP15 fails to seal a global climate deal
No commentsAll the Danish efforts to sell Copenhagen as the city of hope was not enough to guarantee a global deal at the end of the UN Climate Change Conference, billed by many as event of the century.
»Climate Protesters Maintain Hunger Strike
No commentsHunger-strikers following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and other notable political activists are drawing attention to their demand for action to protect the Earth’s climate.
»Climate change gets new advocate in Shaggy
Comments offPopular Jamaican reggae artiste Orville Burrell, who goes by the stage name “Shaggy”, has thrown his weight behind the movement to raise awareness on climate change, performing at Monday night’s ‘Seal the Deal! Dance for Climate Change’ concert held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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