African Poor to Bear Brunt of Global Warming Crisis
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Africa's poor millions, already suffering grinding poverty and rampant disease, risk bearing the brunt of the global warming crisis unless urgent action is taken now, a leading Nigerian scientist said Wednesday.
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Climate concerns are pushing corporates to do good by doing well. Meanwhile, new research puts a number on the ecological impact of rich country lifestyles on poor ones.
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Friends of the Earth warn that UK and US plans to revive global trade talks would hurt the world's poorest.
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While the surge in world oil prices has been a godsend for African exporters, it has placed an extra burden on other economies on the world's poorest continent, whose governments have passed on the cost increase to petrol pump users.
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The World Bank on Tuesday chastised rich countries for not giving enough to fund global environmental protection and warned that overall progress in meeting global environmental targets was "alarmingly slow."
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Climate change could worsen Africa's struggle to feed itself, but simple steps &#151; a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops &#151; could help the continent's subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday.
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Britain needs to spend more to help poorer nations deal with climate change, Oxfam says.
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Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe
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Government to be publicly castigated this week over failure to help poor people - by fuel poverty watchdog
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Talks on global warming in the United States next week may be complicated by differences among developing countries as their climate policy positions diverge.
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South Africa was set Monday to ration electricity in a bid to stem a spiralling crisis which has dealt a severe blow to its status as the continent's economic powerhouse.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.
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Environmentalists forecast a grim future for planet Earth Thursday, predicting that droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes will become increasingly common and more severe if global warming is allowed to continue unchecked.