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by Briseida MEMA Agence France-Presse SEMAN, Albania (AFP) – Albania’s communist-era bunkers were meant to withstand a nuclear strike, but decades later the fortifications are being devoured by the sea as the country’s coastline is battered by erosion. The shores of the Balkan country are among the most affected in Europe by erosion, according to experts, who blame climate change and uncontrolled urbanisation for the scourge. Along the shores of Seman in central Albania, many […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Dependence on fossil fuels has an impact on the assessment of human progress, according to a report published Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme that takes carbon footprints into account for the first time. The report presents world leaders with a choice: take “bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world,” or risk stalling humanity’s progress, said a […]
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO, Nov. 19 – The United Nations Development Programme issued a report commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, independently developed together with climate science and policy institute, Climate Analytics, entitled Low Carbon Monitor at the UN Climate Change Conference at Marrakech (UNFCCC COP22) that examines benefits and opportunities of limiting warming to 1.5°C as enshrined in the goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The report’s key findings include the fact that economic growth […]
Actor Alec Baldwin said on Tuesday (December 7) the leaders of rich countries should take responsibility to help finance clean energy projects not only in their own countries. “I think that the thing I’m most interested in is seeing the leaders from the most developed countries accept the responsibility that not only do they need to be spending billions upon billions of dollars over the next 10-15 years, a trillion dollars easily over the next […]
Aid continues to pour to the areas affected by the Typhoon Yolanda, with the United Nations Development Programme being one of the agencies that continues to send help and support.
