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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/10/2022 10:02:00 AM
Africa — the continent most vulnerable to climate change and least responsible for emissions — needs more than promises.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/10/2022 9:38:00 AM
Ahram Online is providing daily live update coverage of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) taking place in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh from 6-18 November.
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COP27
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To Know
11/9/2022 11:10:33 PM
Egypt's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla and US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey R. Pyatt discussed new cooperation opportunities in many energy domains, especially those related to carbon use and storage, green hydrogen, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.
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World
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Region
11/9/2022 10:40:06 PM
The United States announced Wednesday that it will give $80.5 million in aid for food assistance and solar-powered water pumping stations in the crisis-battered country of Lebanon.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 10:28:36 PM
Pakistan's foreign minister repeated calls for compensation for the unprecedented destruction caused to the country by this summer's flooding, saying debt relief could be a mechanism for doing so.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/9/2022 9:31:51 PM
When it comes to helping poor nations cope with climate change, the United States government left its wallet at home. So it hopes its friend, big business, can help pick up the tab.
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COP27
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To Know
11/9/2022 8:48:00 PM
A number of activists and politicians sent a petition on Wednesday to the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres calling on him to intervene to stop the misuse of the 27th UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) by some international groups and organisations to ‘serve goals that have nothing to do with environmental issues.’
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:41:44 PM
Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni accused Europe on Wednesday of "brazen double standards" towards Africa in its climate and energy policies.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:40:40 PM
The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh city saw the launch of the UN-backed Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) on Tuesday with the goal of raising African carbon credits.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:26:19 PM
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) launched on Wednesday Egypt's Climate Investment Plan to accelerate the country's climate action through investment planning.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:14:56 PM
Newly installed turbine compressors at a gas facility in central Syria will lead to a production increase that will help ease the war-torn country's electricity crisis, officials at the sprawling facility said Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Politics
11/9/2022 5:14:13 PM
Egyptian MPs and major political parties teamed up on Wednesday to condemn what they called the politicisation of the agenda of human rights during the COP 27 climate change summit which is being held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:06:14 PM
A detailed inventory of the top known sources of greenhouse gas emitters launched by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday found that the top 14 individual polluters are all gas and oil fields and their associated facilities, despite their emissions being ``significantly underreported.''
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 3:21:34 PM
Providing efficient and fair financing is the key to the actual implementation of climate action called for by the COP27, said UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Mahmoud Mohieldin.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 2:03:27 PM
EU member states have come to an agreement with MEPs on how to share out the effort of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/9/2022 1:55:09 PM
During the COP27 being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, the World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) for Egypt that provide recommendations on how the country can attain its development goals while mitigating and/or adapting to the repercussions of climate change.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 12:44:33 PM
The world should confront climate change the way it does nuclear weapons, by agreeing to a non-proliferation treaty that stops further production of fossil fuels, a small island nation leader urged.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/9/2022 11:19:04 AM
U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to international climate talks in Egypt this week with a message that historic American action to fight climate change won't shift into reverse, as happened twice before when Democrats lost power.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/9/2022 10:52:22 AM
French President Emmanuel Macron faced accusations of making a major foreign policy reversal after an apparently cordial encounter with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro on the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 10:51:34 AM
Fish, rice, mangrove trees and the lush delta wetlands where the massive Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers drain into the Bay of Bengal.
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