G7 reportedly agrees end date for coal-fired power plants
Turin (Italy) (AFP) - G7 energy ministers have agreed a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, a British ...
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Climate change, Brexit threaten to wilt Dutch tulips
Spierdijk (Netherlands) (AFP) - Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he ...
‘Extreme’ climate blamed for world’s worst wine harvest in 62 years
Paris (AFP) - World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because ...
Biden targets fossil fuel power sector with tough new carbon rules
Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday announced sweeping new rules requiring coal-fired plants to eliminate nearly all their ...
US announces sweeping cuts to power sector carbon emissions
Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's government on Thursday finalized sweeping plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's fossil ...
Climate Disasters Threaten Local And Global Economies
Climate change is not just an environmental issue, it is a global economic threat that we can no longer afford ...
Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
Paris (AFP) - Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by ...
Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GPD by nearly a fifth
Paris (AFP) - Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by ...
Wine growers ‘on tip of Africa’ race to adapt to climate change
Stellenbosch (South Africa) (AFP) - At a South African wine farm, dry, uprooted grapevines are stacked at the bottom of ...
Debt and climate back on IMF, WB spring meetings agenda
Washington (AFP) - The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are due to open Tuesday, ...
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