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What is Alterra, the UAE’s $30 billion green investment fund?

Perhaps the most eye-catching announcement of the first day of Cop28 was the United Arab Emirates pledge to create a $30 billion climate-focused investment fund called Alterra.

‘Magical’ tech innovations a distraction from real solutions, climate experts warn

Machines to magic carbon out of the air, artificial intelligence, indoor vertical farms to grow food for our escape to Mars, and even solar-powered “responsible” yachts: the Cop2

‘Come with solutions’: Cop28 president calls for compromise in final meetings

Ministers and negotiators must come to the vital final meetings of Cop28 without prepared statements, without rigid red

Cop28: ‘failure is not an option,’ says summit president

Sultan Al Jaber, president of Cop28, made a last-ditch call for all countries to come together this afternoon in Dubai, to find common ground amid deep disagreements over the futur

Chris Bowen says agreement on global fossil fuel phase out central to Australia’s renewable energy plans

The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has declared phasing out fossil fuels globally is central to Australia’s push to become a renewable energy superpower, an

COP28 Climate negotiators urged to reach a consensus on curbing warming

Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks

Too much focus on ‘fairytale solutions’ at Cop28 climate talks, warn activists

delegates now have just 48 hours to reach a meaningful agreement on phasing out the use of fossil fuels worldwide.

Behind the scenes at Cop28 with a negotiator whose nation’s survival is on the line

It’s 6.45am, and the first rays are filtering through the morning smog, the sign of another scorching day in Dubai.

France and the EU pledge $50 million for ecosystem management in Congo at COP28:

While the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville ended without any major announcements last October, the Congo is delighted that France, the European Union (EU) and other development partners committed to the sustainable management of ecosystems have pledged a further $50 bill

COP28: climate action for health, the States make a commitment in Dubai

"A declaration on health and climate. It's about time, at a time when climate change is increasingly threatening human physical, mental and physiological health.

Commitments of $1.7 billion in favour of biodiversity by 2025 at COP28

Brazilian head of state Lula da Silva and the COP28 presidency have announced a commitment of $1.7 billion from the international community.

Huawei Leads Africa’s Digital Education Transformation

At COP28, the day dedicated to education on 8 December provides a crucial opportunity to highlight the challenges facing education in Africa.

The growth of towns on the Senegal River discussed from 12 to 14 December in St-Louis

Demographic growth has never been so strong, particularly in the intermediate towns of West Africa.

BOAD launches Climate Study Fund for the resilience of 8 countries

Two months after its approval by the Council of Ministers of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the West African Development Bank (BOAD) Climate Study Fund was officially launched on 3 December 2023 in the village of COP28. Like most sub-regiona