Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – More than 4 000 people have been left homeless and about 1,000 homes were destroyed after heavy rains caused flooding in the Western Cape on Sunday and Monday

©- - 08 july 2024 - 11:56:20 - thread (203 words)


Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Advocates showcased the devastating impacts of climate upheaval on their communities at COP 28 on Monday as the focus of the world’s largest climate gathering turned to financial support for those most at risk – first and foremost youth and women in developing countries

©- - 04 december 2023 - 13:45:18 - thread (796 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Three individuals drowned at the weekend as a result of adverse weather in three eastern and southern regions of Mauritania -- Assaba, Guidimakha and Gorgol, located in the east and south, the Emergency Commission of the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday

©- - 21 september 2020 - 14:33:17 - thread (171 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Meteorological Services on Monday issued a Class II cyclone warning for the island nation as well as for Rodrigues Island

©- - 16 march 2020 - 17:34:05 - thread (173 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana is currently under ‘siege’ of outbreaks of wild fueled veldt fires which are ravaging the dried grasslands across the country

©- - 01 november 2019 - 17:40:38 - thread (421 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's Ministry of Environment Wildlife and Tourism and that of Health and Wellness have warned  the public about the escalating heat wave across the country

©- - 22 october 2019 - 14:29:37 - thread (288 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Meteorology Agency on Thursday reiterated its warning of heavy rains in many parts of Rwanda with concentrations of raindrops typically ranging from 10 to 40 millimetres, especially in Southern and Western Provinces

©- - 17 october 2019 - 17:56:51 - thread (236 words)


Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)   -   African researchers and experts on Climate Change meeting here Wednesday concluded that the current predictability of weather and climate forecasts, coupled with ocean-atmosphere models, were widely used in weather forecasts in several regions across Africa

©- - 10 october 2019 - 00:08:13 - thread (574 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius weather station issued a warning Tuesday of torrential rains for the entire island, official sources said in the Mauritian capital

©- - 09 april 2019 - 23:25:06 - thread (130 words)


Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Weather forecast in Niger indicates average temperatures of 44 to 45 degrees Celsius in April, the hottest month in the country, said Ousmane Baoua, Division Chief at the Meteorological Directorate, rejecting some information posted on social networks reporting a temperature rise to 49° Celsius

©- - 05 april 2019 - 16:25:09 - thread (450 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The UN top climate change official, Christiana Figueres, has urged investors to accelerate their portfolios as one crucial step towards a low-carbon economy that can better cope with the threats and seize the opportunities from climate change
©- - 15 january 2014 - 14:34:08 - thread (682 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – Negotiators at the UN Climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, have agreed on the rules on financing forest protection in developing nations, a breakthrough in the negotiations scheduled to end Friday
©- - 22 november 2013 - 17:28:59 - thread (195 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – With a day to go before the two-week UN climate negotiations ends in Warsaw, Poland, over 800 observers from NGOs and social movements on Thursday walked out of the negotiations, accusing rich industrialised countries of jeopardising international climate action
©- - 21 november 2013 - 17:05:12 - thread (778 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – A special ceremony was held here Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference meeting in Warsaw, Poland, to honour 17 prestigious activities across the global driven by people who are passionate about providing climate change solutions for their cities and communities
©- - 20 november 2013 - 16:33:02 - thread (371 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has told a high-level segment of the UN Climate Change Conference meeting in Warsaw, Poland, to lay firm foundations for the 2015 global climate agreement to be entered in Paris, stressing that success in the French capital means bringing substantive progress to Lima, Peru, for next year’s negotiations before Paris
©- - 19 november 2013 - 18:15:44 - thread (635 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – Kathleen Colson, the woman behind an inspiring project in northern Kenya that has won a UN award, says she wanted to find a solution that will make a difference to the pastoral families in the east Africa country whose traditional way of life has been devastated due to climate change
©- - 19 november 2013 - 14:50:18 - thread (372 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – Supporters from non-governmental organizations across the globe on Saturday marched through the city centre, near where the UN climate negotiations are taking place in Warsaw, Poland, to demand movement from policy-makers against catastrophic climate change and to also honour the ‘Arctic 30’
©- - 16 november 2013 - 16:55:18 - thread (548 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) provided almost US$ 27 billion worldwide, in financing to address the challenges of climate change in 2012, according to the second joint MDB report on climate finance
©- - 16 november 2013 - 11:42:31 - thread (504 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – The head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, says finance will be a key issue in Warsaw, and that it is critical that there is clarity on how countries are going to mobilise over time the US$ 100 billion funding that has been pledged for 2020 and when that should be on the table
©- - 15 november 2013 - 16:26:50 - thread (514 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – The Humbo project, located 342 kilometres south of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, has been cited as being Africa’s first large-scale carbon trading forestry project developed under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
©- - 15 november 2013 - 14:36:00 - thread (364 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – The poorest countries of the world, meeting here for the 19th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties, have finalized a comprehensive set of plans to deal with the inevitable impacts of climate change
©- - 14 november 2013 - 15:13:18 - thread (443 words)


Warsaw, Poland (PANA) – As the UN Climate Change Conference opened Monday in Warsaw, Poland, the civil society groups across Africa have demanded that developed countries fulfill and implement their commitments under the UN climate convention, in order to fairly share a necessary 'emissions budget', and avoid catastrophic climate change
©- - 11 november 2013 - 17:53:30 - thread (682 words)


Doha, Qatar (PANA) – African governments at the UN Climate Change Conference in the Qatari capital, Doha, have said that unresolved issues among different regions of the world should not be used as instruments at the negotiation tables to backslide from decision taken so far
©- - 04 december 2012 - 16:37:16 - thread (320 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Expressing concern that Africa is on the frontline of a planetary emergency, representatives of the continent’s civil society at the ongoing climate conference in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday urged African leaders at the talks to demand deep cuts of greenhouse gas emission from developed countries
©- - 04 december 2012 - 16:06:14 - thread (793 words)


Doha, Qatar (PANA) – As the UN Climate Change Conference entered its high-level segment Tuesday, non-governmental environmental groups have urged ministers in Doha to ensure that negotiators find a mandated decision on loss and damage through the Conference of Parties (COP) work programme agreed on two years in Cancun, Mexico
©- - 04 december 2012 - 13:25:32 - thread (489 words)


Doha, Qatar (PANA) – Representatives of civil society in Africa, who are at the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Doha, Qatar, have demanded that countries that have expressed intentions of opting out of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) must not be allowed to benefit from flexible mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanisms
©- - 01 december 2012 - 13:10:50 - thread (460 words)


Doha, Qatar (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has said it is prepared to adopt an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol that inscribes a new Quantified Emission Limitation Reduction Objectives (QELROs) for the EU and its member states in Annex B of the protocol
©- - 26 november 2012 - 16:55:54 - thread (838 words)


Doha, Qatar (PANA) – Representatives of civil society groups around the world who are gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the UN climate conference say Doha is a crucial turning point in addressing the global emergency of climate change as the conference kicked off Monday with an ongoing battle over the rules of the international climate controls from now until 2020
©- - 26 november 2012 - 16:04:11 - thread (832 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - In an effort to bring the benefits of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to under-represented countries, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) secretariat, in collaboration with the Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD), has established a CDM support office in Lomé, Togo, to help the governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to engage in the development of CDM projects
©- - 16 october 2012 - 15:07:02 - thread (386 words)


Durban, South Africa (PANA) - A riveting photo -- Solar Panels: The Sunny Energy -- by a young South African, Dina Osman, and a catchy rap video -- Me and My Bike, celebrating bicycle transport, by Dickson Oyuki of Kenya -- won the top honors in the Africa-wide Connect4Climate (C4C) competition which was announced in Durban, South Africa, Monday
©- - 06 december 2011 - 19:35:32 - thread (567 words)


Durban, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday called on the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to re-build trust and re-assure one another of honest intent and commitment as ministers and heads of state strive to find solutions to elements that will remain critical in reaching any agreement in Durban, South Africa
©- - 06 december 2011 - 17:27:58 - thread (593 words)


Durban, South Africa (PANA) – At a consultative meeting at the current UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, Japan Monday called for a new single comprehensive framework with the inclusion of all major economies to agree to binding emission targets
©- - 05 december 2011 - 17:22:41 - thread (760 words)


Durban, South Africa (PANA) - Qatar and Korea will co-host the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the end of 2012, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, announced here Tuesday
©- - 29 november 2011 - 15:48:29 - thread (390 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African President Jacob Zuma, on Monday called on delegates attending the UN climate conference in Durban to work a "balanced, fair and credible" outcome with a view to reaffirming the Kyoto Protocol
©- - 28 november 2011 - 14:51:33 - thread (501 words)


Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan Vice President, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, arrived Durban, South Africa, on Sunday evening to attend the opening ceremony of the United Nations (UN) conference on Climate Change
©- - 28 november 2011 - 10:35:00 - thread (140 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - On the eve of the Africa Union (AU) Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai, has called on African leaders to respond to the global climate change crisis that disproportionately impacts Africans, particularly African women
©- - 29 june 2011 - 09:28:42 - thread (753 words)