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India: Hariyali Green Villages- Women Lead Climate Solutions
Jun 14, 2022
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Charlotte Steiner and Sameer Kwatra
Pakistan: Mothers at the Searing Edge of Climate Crisis in Pakistan
Jun 14, 2022
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Al Jazeera
Ukraine/Russia: How Ukraine Wants to Make Russia Pay for War’s Environmental Damage
Jun 14, 2022
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Louise Guillot, Politico
The destruction unleashed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine is vast — but Ukraine's environment ministry is determined to chart the specific toll on the environment…
Liberia: Inadequate Access to Energy a Recipe for Deforestation, SDI Executive Says, Reflecting on the COP15 Abidjan Conference
Jun 14, 2022
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FrontPage Africa
The executive director of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), Wilfred Johnson, has described access to reliable energy as fundamental in safe-guarding Liberia’s forest against deforestation but…
Intern: Planetary Security Initiative
Jun 14, 2022
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Clingendael Institute
The Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael‘ is a leading think tank and academy on international affairs. Through our analyses, training and public debate we…
DRC/Uganda: Ugandan Mission in DR Congo Aimed at Shielding Oil: Report
Jun 14, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Uganda's crackdown on ADF rebels in eastern DR Congo, a mission launched jointly with Kinshasa, was driven in part by a desire to protect Ugandan…
Somalia: Somalia Attempts to Revive Lands Blighted by Deforestation
Jun 14, 2022
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UN Environment Program
Acacia trees, slow-growing hardwoods, play a pivotal role in Somalia’s hot and arid climate. They improve soil fertility by storing water, fixing nitrogen, a key…
Sudan: 100 Killed in Darfur in Land Dispute
Jun 13, 2022
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Marwan Asmar, Al Bawaba
Darfur mayhem in Sudan. Reports coming in suggest that nearly 100 people were killed as well as a large number of casualties killed in a…
Yemen: UN Launches Public Fundraising Drive to Prevent Yemen Tanker Oil Spill
Jun 13, 2022
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Reuters
The United Nations has launched a public crowdfunding drive that aims to raise $5 million towards an operation to avoid an oil spill from a…
Liberia: Abandoned Logs Turn out as Collateral in Illegal Deal
Jun 13, 2022
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FrontPage Africa
An unlawful deal for a company to purchase a consignment of logs illegally felled and abandoned in a forest in Grand Cape Mount County has…
Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG Says ‘No Court’ Authorized to Invalidate Oil, Gas Law
Jun 13, 2022
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Chenar Chalak, Rudaw
No court in Baghdad has the authority to outlaw the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas law, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) natural resources ministry stated…
Australia: Renewables, Environment and Women- What We Know About the 2022-23 NSW Budget
Jun 13, 2022
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Gazala Anver
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Has Achieved at Least 1 of Its War Goals: Return Ukraine's Water to Crimea
Jun 12, 2022
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Jason Beaubien, NPR
Two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, Russian military forces blew up a dam that Ukraine had built to cut off Crimea's…
Colombia: Illegal Destruction in Colombia: Amazon Rainforest under Threat [Video]
Jun 10, 2022
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Alessandro Rampietti, Al Jazeera
Deforestation and fires in Colombia's Amazon are destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest every year to make space for cattle ranching, mining and…
Ukraine/Russia: Putin Admits Ukraine Invasion Is an Imperial War to “Return” Russian Land
Jun 10, 2022
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Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council
Throughout the past few months, Vladimir Putin has offered up all manner of outlandish excuses for his invasion of Ukraine. At various different times he…
New Report: Why Climate Change Impacts Women Differently Than Men
Jun 10, 2022
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UNFCCC
Belgium: Women in Conflicts - Brussels Declaration on Actions Towards Empowering Women
Jun 9, 2022
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European Council
Women continue to be particularly affected by conflict situations: whether as civilians in directly affected areas, as refugees, or as persons directly targeted. At the same time, women contribute…
Water Wars: The Water Wars Myth: When Water Runs Short, Do We Have to Fight?
Jun 9, 2022
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Giulio Boccaletti, OpenMind
"Water shortages are brewing wars,” warned the BBC last year. People who worry about climate change are drawn to this dramatic, high-stakes idea. After all,…
DRC: Irregularities Uncovered at State-Owned DRC Mining Company
Jun 8, 2022
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Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
The anti-corruption agency of the Democratic Republic of Congo has identified numerous irregularities in the management of the state-owned mining company, Gecamines, which it says…
Why the UN Security Council Can’t Keep Ignoring Climate-Driven Conflict
Jun 8, 2022
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Jamal Benomar
The UN Security Council’s raison d’être is to maintain international peace and security. The war in Ukraine has exposed its inability to fulfil that core…
If Women Don’t Lead, We’ll Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis
Jun 8, 2022
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Sally Abi Khalil
We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most unequal, water scarce, least democratic…
Colombia: Colombia's Extractive Industries Watching Election Warily
Jun 8, 2022
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Oliver Griffin, Reuters
Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Pro-Iran Militias ‘Seizing Kurdish Oil Resources’
Jun 8, 2022
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GDNonline
Pro-Iranian militias have seized half of the Iraqi oil resources, at a time when disputes are raging between Baghdad and Erbil over who manages oil…
Afghanistan: Taliban Extends Bidding Period for Large-Scale Metal Mines
Jun 7, 2022
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Asian News International
The Taliban on Tuesday extended the bidding period for the extraction of two large-scale metal mines in western provinces - Herat and Ghor. The Ministry…
DRC: Congo Ombudsman Says Millions Lost at State Mining Firm
Jun 6, 2022
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Africanews with AFP
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF), in a report revealed on Saturday, points to numerous irregularities in the management of the…
Apply Now! Call for 7th Annual ‘Gender-Just Climate Solutions’ Award Open
Jun 6, 2022
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Women Gender Constituency
These awards showcase real solutions for a just, healthy and sustainable planet.
All types of activist, grassroots, women-led and gender equality organizations and groups working on…
Lebanon: Lebanon Urges US Envoy to End Maritime Dispute with Israel
Jun 6, 2022
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Bassem Mroue, Associated Press
The Lebanese government invited on Monday a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border to return to Beirut as soon…
Liberia: High-Level UN Peacebuilding Commission Delegation Arrives in Liberia
Jun 6, 2022
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Front Page Africa
DRC: EAC Membership to Help DRC Benefit from Its Minerals
Jun 5, 2022
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Chimp Corps
At the end of May, 2022, Hon Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, led a delegation of Ugandan…
DRC/Rwanda: Rwanda-DR Congo Row: Tensions Rise again in the Great Lakes
Jun 5, 2022
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Timothy Kalyegira, Monitor
Tensions erupted last week between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Demonstrations were held this week in the Congolese capital Kinshasa to protest Rwanda’s…