Climate Change

WARMER OCEAN TEMPERATURES due to climate change could attract invasive species that threaten native marine life, according to an expert, with knock-on impacts for fishing and biodiversity.  A heatwave in Irish waters this week came in the wake of a startling report by the Marine Institute last month that identified…

Egypt’s Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait has said that the Sustainable Debt Coalition Initiative, which will be launched next September, is a strong impetus for green investments in developing countries, as it contributes effectively to addressing environmental challenges that have become one of the biggest obstacles in the process of…

Coastal community of Ban Khun Samut Chin slowly giving way to rising sea Only four pupils remain in the school located in the coastal community of Ban Khun Samut Chin in Phra Samut Chedi district of Samut Prakan. (Photo: Manan Vatsyayana, AFP) Each morning, four children stand barefoot in a…

President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday that resentment towards the West still lingers over the treatment of African countries during the Covid pandemic. Speaking at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris, Ramaphosa described how African nations “felt like we were beggars when we needed access to vaccines”.…

The Church of England has come to the conclusion there is no saving fossil fuel companies from the error of their ways when it comes to sustainability and climate change. Ben Emons Part 2: The Fed, Apple shares The Church Commissioners, which manage the church’s £10.3 billion ($13.1 billion) endowment…

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam’s holiest sites. But as climate change heats up an already scorching region, the annual Hajj pilgrimage — much of which takes place outdoors in the desert — could prove even more daunting. The…

Cop28 President-designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber has praised France's plan to focus on the role of finance in meeting climate change challenges, at a summit in Paris. Dr Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, told the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact that the UN's Cop28 gathering…

BANGKOK, June 23 (Reuters) - Climate change might have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a 3- to 4-kilometre stretch of beach in Thailand's southern Chumphon province, an expert said. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, deputy dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University,…

Activists demonstrated against fossil fuel finance in central Paris on the eve of the summit - Copyright AFP/File LUDOVIC MARIN Kelly MACNAMARA Dozens of global leaders will gather in Paris Thursday for a summit to tease out a new consensus on international economic reforms to help debt-burdened developing countries face…

The City of Cape Town on Wednesday said it had secured loan finance of more than R2bn to help fight climate change and enhance infrastructure development. The €100m (about R2bn) loan from French development bank Agence Francaise de Developpement is good news for a city that six years ago faced…