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Kenyan President William Ruto and Dr. Sultan Bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), COP28 President-Designate, have stressed the importance of bolstering their collaboration…

Climate activists denounce COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber, ahead of meeting in Dubai later in the year. Kenyan climate activist, Eric Njuguna, and Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg,…

Big oil firms have come under pressure at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from activists who accused them of hijacking the climate debate. Major energy firms including BP BP.L, Chevron CVX.N and Saudi…

Activists attending the COP27 climate conference in Egypt held a demonstration, calling on countries to stop funding new gas projects in Africa. Faced with an energy crisis because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, western nations have been…

Demonstrators called on wealthy and most polluting nations to pay fair compensation for the global impacts of the climate crisis. Chanting "pay up for loss and damage" and "no more bla bla bla", the small group was led by seven…

Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change amid a multitude of competing crises, including the war in Ukraine, high inflation, food shortages and an…

Last minute preparation is underway in Egypt’s seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh as it prepares to welcome delegates to this year’s United Nations Climate Conference, COP27. Some 30,000 people representing governments, businesses, NGOs,…

As a response to the increasing concerns and calls to protect people from the health risks of climate change and other environmental hazards, The World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with support from…

Hundreds of demonstrators took the streets of Nairobi demands for wealthy countries do more in tackling climate change in Africa. Areas of Kenya have been devastated by the worst drought in forty years which many are blaming on global…

Kenya newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the government's agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030. "In our country, women…