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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

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Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

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A group of Six African countries this week formally launched the Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance , with a view to accelerating to new energy technologies that open up access to clean, affordable energy supplies to all. The Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance will go a long way in fostering these developments.".

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Climate change is creating security threats around the world - and militaries are responding

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A range of climate scenarios have been forecast - but common to all is increased frequency and scale of extreme weather events, more droughts and floods, melting of ice caps and permafrost, rise in sea levels, and oceanic acidification and deoxygenation. times higher than the global average. Arctic militarisation.