Climate change
Australia's new PM heads to Tokyo with climate message
Australia's new prime minister Anthony Albanese took office Monday, hours before flying to a Tokyo summit with a 'message to the world' that his country is...
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Godongwana: Climate change compounding problem of poverty in SA
Godongwana said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, both at home and abroad, has made it harder to deal with South Africa’s triple challenge of poverty, inequality and unemployment.
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Govt on a mission to protect vulnerable communities against climate change
The burning issue was discussed virtually on Tuesday among officials from the Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Department, the weather service and the South African Local Government Association.
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Salga: More needs to be done to safeguard communities from climate change impact
Extreme weather events and how it affects communities were discussed in an online briefing hosted by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, as well as the Government Communication and Information System on Tuesday.
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Godongwana: KZN floods an eye opener for SA's climate change challenges
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said that the severe weather which led to the death of over 400 people showed that climate change was not only an environmental issue but an alternative economic development model too.
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Humanity stuck in 'spiral of self-destruction': UN
UNDRR said in a statement that the sharp rise in disasters globally could be attributed to a 'broken perception of risk based on optimism, underestimation and invincibility'.
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Early warnings for floods in SA: engineering for future climate change
It is natural to ask whether the recent floods will occur more often within the context of climate change or whether they were simply freak events.
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Extreme weather lashes Europe as climate crisis grows
The warmest summer on record featured a heatwave along the Mediterranean rim lasting weeks and the hottest day ever registered in Europe, a blistering 48.8C (120 degrees Fahrenheit) in Italy's Sicily.
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Can AI help avert scale of natural disasters such as the KZN floods?
Artificial Intelligence head, Junaid Kleinschmidt, explains how the use of AI could be a possible solution in averting climate disasters.
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What's behind KZN's flood disaster
Last week, storms pummelled the east coast city of Durban, triggering heavy floods and landslides that killed more than 440.
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Fly less? Go vegan? How people can take climate action
Individuals along with economy-wide efficiencies can make a major difference in the drive to avert the worst of global warming, UN climate experts say.
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Never too late for 'transformational' climate action
In a United Nations assessment in February dubbed an 'atlas of human suffering', experts laid out in devastating detail the past, present and future impacts of climate change on people and the planet they depend on.
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'Maladaptation': how not to cope with climate change
A crescendo of deadly extreme weather is outpacing preparations for a climate-addled world, according to a landmark UN assessment of climate impacts released this week.
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City of Cape Town commits to being resilient to impacts of climate change
Officials have recently signed a R77 million grant funding agreement with the KfW German Development Bank.
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Nations to review harrowing catalogue of climate impacts
Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, mosquito-borne disease, deadly heat, water shortages, and reduced crop yields are already measurably worse due to global heating.
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YONELA DIKO: SA must adopt climate change strategies that have proven to work
Climate change must always be fought at an international level with a bigger push on large emitters.
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OPINION: Destabilising coal usage in SA will cripple our economy
South Africa accounts for less than 1% of greenhouse gas emissions. Our responsibility to combat climate change must be proportional to our contribution to the problem, writes Kanakana Mudzanani and Vuslat Bayoglu.
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Scientists warn global food security could be at risk due to climate change
Locally we've seen severe droughts and excessive rain wreaking havoc on communities and farmers having to adapt to these changing conditions brought on by long term shifts in temperature and weather patterns.
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ANALYSIS: Namaqualand daisies are flowering earlier: why it’s a red flag
Jennifer Fitchett looks at how the changing climate is affecting the Namaqualand daisies and the impact that it will have on the industries that have sprung up around the flowers.
