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Blood Brothers: the emergence of Brazil & Africa
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... of food, this is a very sensitive topic. Owing to this, politicians hesitate to engage with the issue, despite the onset of global warming. Brazil, on the other hand, has a 30-year-old ethanol fuel program ...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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The road to prosperity
(Newsletters)
... African leaders called for the developed world to help carry the financial burden of climate change, by enabling funding for African nations battling the fallout of global warming. Although Africa's request ...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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2009: a good year
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When we launched the Africa - The Good News website, in March of this year, we had one primary goal: to start informing Africa and the world about what was going right in the continent. In the beginning ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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The grass is green here: Africa and the eco-uprising
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... on carbon emissions, and hence the end product of global warming, there has been a hard drive by power utilities and governments across the globe to try and source viable and sustainable energy solutions. ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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African monsoon research to shift focus
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Tags: [monsoon, climate change, global warming, environment, African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses, West Africa] ...
Thursday, 06 May 2010
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South African activist is new Greenpeace head
(News/Environment)
Tags: [Greenpeace, global warming, Kumi Naidoo, South Africa] ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
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Green projects in South Africa and Tunisia receive funding
(News/Energy)
Tags: [energy, green, global warming, sustainable, UN UNIDO, Swiss, Kandeh K. Yumkella, South Africa, Tunisia] ...
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Africa seeks financial compensation for climate change
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Tags: [UN, climate change, global warming, compensation, AU, Jean Ping, Copenhagen, Burkina Faso, Africa] ...
Monday, 12 October 2009
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Uganda to combat global warming with reforestation project
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Tags: [Kyoto Protocol, World Bank, BioCarbon Fund, reforestation, global warming, carbon dioxide, Nile Basin Reforestation Project, National Forestry Authority, Kundhavi Kadiresan, Uganda] ...
Thursday, 08 October 2009
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Africa to seek billions in climate change compensation
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Tags: [African Union, environmental damages, Copenhagen Climate summit, claim, developed, climate change, global warming, Africa] ...
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Africa leaders hold climate talks
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Tags: [climate change, UN, meeting, talks, global warming, Africa, Ethiopia] ...
Monday, 24 August 2009
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Sudan's first biofuel plant comes online
(News/Innovation)
Tags: [biofuel plant, Egypt, global warming, technology, economic development, Khartoum, Sudan] ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Diverse water sources key to food security: report
(News/Environment)
... experts has projected more extreme weather such as droughts, floods and heatwaves this century, caused by global warming. The report said that, despite a great expansion in irrigation in recent decades ...
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
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Tanzania, Brazil sign biofuel memo, talk debt relief
(News/International Relations)
... emissions that contribute to global warming have led investors to turn to cleaner energy sources like biofuels. Many are focusing on Africa. "Biofuels is one of the areas where we have a huge potential. ...
Thursday, 08 July 2010
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World Bank works to promote environmentally-sensitive development projects
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... U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol was designed to fight global warming. Industrialized nations are expected to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels with most reductions coming domestically. Under the ...
Friday, 14 May 2010
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African monsoon research to shift focus
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An international project that studies the West African monsoon will refocus its work to prioritise climate change and to benefit local people, if a new plan is accepted. An international project that ...
Thursday, 06 May 2010
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Africa's GDP growth could reach 7 pct in 2011
(News/Economy)
... a common African approach to global warming and financing to help Africa mitigate the devastating effects climate change was expected to have on the continent. The AfDB wanted rich nations to commit ...
Monday, 22 February 2010
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Morocco to invite bids for solar station in Feb
(News/Energy)
... emitting the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Morocco is the poorest of the European Union's southern neighbours but one of its closest allies in the region. It has a history of political ...
Friday, 08 January 2010
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Nigeria set for 'Green Big Brother' show
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Nigeria's most celebrated environmental campaigner is about to launch a reality TV show to highlight the dangers of global warming for Africans. Agadez in Niger, where Desert Warriors will be filmed ...
Thursday, 26 November 2009
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South African activist is new Greenpeace head
(News/Environment)
An African took over as director of Greenpeace Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming. ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
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