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US firefighters optimistic over world’s biggest tree

Red Fir, United States, Sept 18 (AFP/APP):Firefighters battling to protect the world’s biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as man-made […]

Southern EU leaders vow to meet Paris climate targets

Athens, Sept 17 (AFP/APP):Southern EU leaders on Friday pledged their adherence to the climate targets of the Paris 2015 agreement in an Athens summit that also tackled migration and regional security challenges. “Now, more than ever, (it is) necessary to tackle the escalating climate and […]

Re-poling on 6 Punjab Cantonment Board seats to be held

ISLAMABAD, Sep 17 (APP):Huawei Technologies Pakistan on Friday under its FusionSolar initiative showcased solar power based products and solutions to highlight their positioning of leading a Green Pakistan in this endeavor to empower a zero-carbon future. At this Solar Pakistan Exhibition, the FusionSolar team signed […]

Southern EU leaders target climate change at Greek summit

Athens, Sept 17 (AFP/APP):Greece is hosting a summit of southern EU leaders on Friday that will focus on climate change and “security challenges” including migration and the Afghan crisis. Greek government spokesman Yiannis Economou said the one-day meeting, with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen […]

Climate change could force 216 million from their homes: World Bank

Washington, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to leave their homes and migrate within their own countries by 2050, the World Bank has warned. The estimate from […]

Little to celebrate after 50 years of activism: Greenpeace chief

Amsterdam, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):Half a century after a small group of radicals created Greenpeace, the head of the environmental organisation warned that it still has far to go on the climate crisis before it can truly celebrate. Created on September 15, 1971 when a boat […]

France pleads EU to see nuclear as Green

Brdo Castle, Slovenia, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday firmly defended nuclear power as a suitable energy to meet Europe’s net-zero emissions climate goal despite strong feeling in Germany that it is too dangerous. France derives the vast share of its […]

UN climate summit to be Scotland’s biggest policing operation

Edinburgh, Sept 9 (AFP/APP):The upcoming UN climate summit in Glasgow will be Scotland’s biggest ever policing operation, the officer in charge said on Thursday. Bernard Higgins said the 12-day COP26 event later this year, and expected environmental mass protests alongside, made it a “very complex […]

Funding needed to tackle life-shortening air pollution: report

Paris, Sept 7 (AFP/APP):Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get more funding than clean air initiatives, a global report said Tuesday. An annual survey by the Clean Air Fund, which looks into how much money is given to the […]

Armed with voting rights, native groups join conservation fray

Marseille, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):Newly armed with voting rights, indigenous peoples have come to the world’s leading conservation congress meeting in the French city of Marseille both hopeful and wary. They have demands, and will not go quietly into the night, their representatives say. “It makes […]

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