Fighting climate change requires more than fantasies

On climate change, curb your enthusiasm. It’s not that the recent international conference in Paris didn’t take significant steps to check global warming. It did. Nearly 200 countries committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Jul

We can take on climate change

The issue before the world, at this point in time, is not about why climate change is a threat and who is to blame for it. The most important matter before us now is about how to adapt and how to mitigate climate change effects.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Dec

$10bn for climate change

Some $10 billion has been pledged at the just-ended Climate Change talks in Lima, Peru organised by the UN for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to mitigate the impact of global warming.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Jul

Climate change must be dealt with

We are also proposing an Africa Wide Programme on Mitigation. Africa is not a big emitter of greenhouse gases, but we see a lot of merit and benefit in the continent charting out an environment friendly development path. Indeed Africa’s contribution to climate change from fossil energy and transport sources in the global context is but only worth a footnote.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Aug

Tanzania should do its bit on climate change

There were repeated calls this past week to save the glaciers on top of Mount Kilimanjaro that have been melting at an alarming rate. There is no denying that Africa’s Rooftop, as Mt Kilimanjaro is affectionately known, has seen a fair share of its snow vanish following decades of environmental degradation and global warming.

 

10 years ago

East African Business Week

24 Nov

Tanzania Needs Over U.S.$1 Billion for Climate Change

Tanzania Needs Over U.S.$1 Billion for Climate Change
East African Business Week
Dar es Salaam — The government has established that it needs massive financial support to the tune of over $1 billion annually by 2030 coupled with technological support to address climate change adaptation, a feature also approved by the Tanzania ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Oct

Why climate change is a gender issue

Environmental scientists say; “when there is a downpour, there are disasters.” Validation of this statement can vividly be seen in what has happened in different parts of Tanzania and around the world.

 

10 years ago

NFL News And Rumors

24 Nov

Tanzania needs over $1 billion for climate change

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Tanzania needs over $1 billion for climate change
NFL News and Rumors
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - The government has established that it needs massive financial support to the tune of over $1 billion annually by 2030 coupled with technological support to address climate change adaptation, a feature also approved by the ...
Tanzania wants single EAC climate lawEast African Business Week

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10 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Oct

Plea on climate change fund

The government has pleaded with development partners to timely and sufficiently deliver on their commitments to support the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Nov

What I expect from climate change meeting

For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and citizens about the need for an urgent global response

 

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