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CHINA, 2017/08/03
China's energy regulator on Monday said it was raising its targets for curbing coal-fired power capacity over the next few years, as the world's No.2 economy continues its drive against pollution.
The National Energy Government (NEA) said in a statement on its website that the country would cut 20 gigawatts of outdated capacity between 2016 and 2020, in addition to its before goal of reining in coal-fired power projects set to be built or currently under construction by 150 GW.
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GERMANY, 2017/08/03
German ministers, regional politicians and car executives agreed a package of measures on Wednesday aimed at cutting inner-city air pollution and averting bans on diesel cars.
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TANZANIA, 2017/07/18
Gazing at the exposed, rocky bottom of the Great Ruaha River, known as the jewel of Tanzania, Rosemary Kasenza ponders what the next holds for her family presently that there is no longer enough water for her crops.
"I am worried because it's the dry season and I don't have enough food to feed my children," she said.
Kasenza grows potatoes, maize, onions and bananas on 3 hectares (7 acres) of land in the fertile Ruaha basin in southern Tanzania.
She says she used to have no problem irrigating her crops but presently the river flow slows to a trickle in the dry season.
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BENIN, 2017/07/17
As climate change brings with it increased extreme weather events, one of the pressing issues for Africa's farmers will be how to address these challenges. One dimension to be factored in is that men and women farmers are responding to the pressures differently. The Conversation Africa's Samantha Spooner asked Grace Villamor about her research on gender-specific responses by farmers in Benin.
How are extreme weather events affecting farmers in Benin?
Volatile climatic conditions and dwindling natural resources have been cited as the reason for persistent emigration from Benin to other West African nations.
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NIGERIA, 2017/07/14
The Federal Government has commiserated with all Nigerians on the damage caused by recent floods across the country, particularly in Niger and Lagos States.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, conveyed the government's sympathy at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that about 30 states and over 100 local government areas, which had been categorised as high flood risk areas, could expect flooding this year.
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ERITREA, 2017/07/12
At the 41 Session of the World Heritage Committee that took place on 7 July in Karkow, Poland, in which the President of Poland, Mr. Andrzej Duda and Irene Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, Ministers and high level officials inclunding additional than 1000 governmental and non-governmental representatives took part Asmara was inscribed UNESCO World heritage.
In a speech she delivered during the event representing the Eritrean Government, Ambassador Hanna Simon, Eritrean Ambassador to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO, stated that the inscription of Asmara city onto the UNESCO World Heritage Inventory is a symbol of pride and succcess for the Eritrean people and shoulders the responsibility to maintain its status.
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ETHIOPIA, 2017/07/12
Ethiopia is enlisting the cooperation of people in and around its forests to manage woodland better, hoping to protect the country from the effects of climate change while boosting development prospects for its people of 100 million.
The government of Africa's second most populous country has set an ambitious aim of reducing poverty and becoming a carbon-neutral economy by 2025, in part by transforming the way rural landscapes are managed.
Its Climate Resilient Green Economy strategy aims to meet half of its target reduction in carbon emissions by adding 5 million hectares (12.4 million acres) of forests by 2020 - just three years from presently - and restoring 22 million hectares of degraded landscapes by 2030.
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CAMEROON, 2017/07/12
A chimpanzee trafficking network has been busted in Douala following the arrest of two people with two adult chimpanzees. The chimps were about to be illegally exported through the Douala international airport. The suspects aged 56 and 37 were arrested in a little while next they arrived at the entrance to the cargo terminal of the airport with the animals loaded behind a pickup truck.
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NIGERIA, 2017/07/12
Eleven persons have been confirmed dead in a flood disaster caused by a five hours downpour in Suleja and part of Tafa local government areas of Niger National at the weekend even as a lot of were injured and as well property were destroyed .
LEADERSHIP gathered that nine persons were killed by the flood at checheniya area of suleja, one killed at Kuspa area of same town while one other died at Ayin -Nassarrawa in Tafa local government area of the national.
It was learnt that though the five hours rain submerged and destroyed houses and property respectively worth several millions of naira in Kaltuma and angwan Gwari in Suleja local government area of the national ,no life was lost in those areas.
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UNITED STATES, 2017/07/10
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, California Governor Jerry Brown chose an unusual form of turmoil — he went to China. He as well made a point of announcing the schedule would include discussions on linking California’s nascent carbon market to China’s emissions trading system, which currently covers several provinces and is due to be expanded country-wide by the end of 2017.
For both China and the United States, this type of sub-national diplomacy broke new ground. By proposing to entirely bypass Washington to pursue California’s climate change goals, Governor Brown significantly raised the stakes for sub-national participation in China’s relationship with the outside world. From presently on for China, the United States and other nations, sub-national diplomacy is no substitute for the real thing. In most policy areas, the route to real action still runs through national capitals.
