Category: Environment

UN to agree on plan for ‘historic’ plastics treaty

February 26, 2022 | by english_Alyurae |

Nairobi (AFP) – More than 100 nations convening in Nairobi next week are expected to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet. Plastic has been found in Arctic sea…

DR Congo dragging its feet on $500 million forest protection deal approved by Britain

February 15, 2022 | by english_Alyurae |

Summary The DRC and Britain approved funds worth $500 million as part of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) two months ago in Glasgow, which hosted the COP26 climate change conference. Greenpeace said Congo’s environment ministry failed to publish before…

Gene banks from Sudan, will deposit seeds, including millet, sorghum in the Arctic Vault as back-ups

February 14, 2022 | by english_Alyurae |

OSLO- (Reuters) – A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world’s crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organisation that made a withdrawal from the…

COP26 Climate change risks ‘runaway’ humanitarian crisis, aid system collapse, UN warns

November 9, 2021 | by english_Alyurae |

Summary: *U.N. agencies say needs of people on disaster frontlines not met *Funding to adapt is too low and most does not reach vulnerable *COP26 sees new pledges to key funds for poor but far more needed GLASGOW-By Megan Rowling-(Thomson…

Brazil to deploy special force to protect the Yanomami from gold miners

June 14, 2021 | by english_Alyurae |

BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian government on Monday authorized the employment of the National Security Force (FNS) to protect the Yanomami indigenous people and their reservation lands for 90 days in the northern state of Roraima bordering Venezuela. The measure…

Sudanese turn to solar energy amid electricity shortages

June 14, 2021 | by english_Alyurae |

Reuters- Sudanese farmer Mohammed Mahgoub used to spend more than $12 per day on gasoline to keep his farm in Nile River State operating, braving long queues at gas stations to fuel his irrigation pumps. But a solar energy unit…