Tone set for global climate change dialogue in Paris

Threshold. A word I did not quite know, until very recently.I kept hearing politicians saying threshold, threshold, threshold. Threshold this, threshold that.

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The Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA) conference series was conceived as an annual forum to enable linkages between climate science and development policy by promoting transparent discussions between key stakeholders in the climate and development community. CCDA seeks to mainstream climate information into decision making and strengthen capacities focusing on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, food security, energy and transport. To support Africa’s towards...

In December 2015, all roads will lead to the French capital, Paris, for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), where a climate deal is expected to be clinched, heading off a repeat of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009.

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Dar es Salaam, 3 September 2015: Africa Climate Talks (ACT!) begins here today, (Thursday) to discuss the impacts and implications of climate change in Africa, and effective solutions.  The three-day discussions are part of Africa’s planning for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP21) where a new global climate agreement is the expected outcome at COP21 in Paris in December.

Under the theme, ‘Democratizing Global Climate Change...

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Secretary-General, Mr Mithika Mwenda (Left), moderate the discusion about the Civil Society and Climate governance (NDCs, Mitigation, Adaptation, Land use and forestry and more  in the conference in the African Climate Talk (ACT) meeting in the Bank of Tanzania Conference Hall discus policy make and more. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Yesterday, September 5.2015. ( All Photos by Andrew Chale, modewjiblog)

Eric Onduru from UMANDE Trust present the...

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One of the things we’re hearing more and more about here in Paris is so-called “climate aid”. There has been a huge push from climate NGOs to convince rich countries to spend a fortune to help poor countries adjust to global warming.

History, on the “right side” of which Barack Obama endeavours to keep us, has a sense of whimsy. Proof of which is something happening this week: Britain’s last deep-pit coal mine is closing, a small event pertinent to an enormous event, the Industrial Revolution, which was ignited by British coal.