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Impacts
Addressing the threat from climate variability and extremes for food security and nutrition
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Addressing the threat from climate variability and extremes for food security and nutrition

The 2018 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition is co-published for the very first time with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Fighting climate change: Three snapshots of building resilience - Somalia
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Fighting climate change: Three snapshots of building resilience - Somalia

Would you be surprised to discover that climate change is one of the biggest threats in the fight to end global poverty?

Less rain and snowfall in Afghanistan: high level of food assistance needed until early 2019
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Less rain and snowfall in Afghanistan: high level of food assistance needed until early 2019

The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) has reported that in 22 of Afghanistan's provinces, cumulative rain and snowfall during the 'wet season' – October 2017 to May 2018 – was 30 to 60 per cent below average.

Nigeria herders, farmers conflict highlights squeeze on arable land
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Nigeria herders, farmers conflict highlights squeeze on arable land

Fertile land is dwindling due to climate change combined with a population boom and is fueling conflicts across the continent

Solutions
New projects to boost renewable energy and improve climate resilience in Marshall Islands
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New projects to boost renewable energy and improve climate resilience in Marshall Islands

The World Bank and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands this week launched two climate change related projects that will increase investments in renewable energy, promote energy efficiency, and enhance the country's resilience to the impacts of climate change

Impacts
Zambia is stepping up efforts for a climate-resilient future
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Zambia is stepping up efforts for a climate-resilient future

Zambia is highly vulnerable to climate change mainly because the livelihoods of its people are very dependent on natural resources.

Politics
Experts meet to scale up efforts to tackle climate change displacement
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Experts meet to scale up efforts to tackle climate change displacement

Stakeholders from all over the world are gathered in Switzerland this week to contribute to the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Task Force on Displacement.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

Oil pipelines stretching into the distance

Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

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Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
wind turbines lined up in a green field

Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

Palm trees bending in the wind

Cyclone devastates Mayotte