Africa Events Sea level rise 
Grist
APRIL 8, 2022
But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images.
Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2021
As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. The direct link between climate change and specific extreme weather events has never been clearer.
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Climate Tech VC
MARCH 4, 2024
UN resolution calls for more equity in Africa's critical mineral mines, the source of more than half of the world’s cobalt and manganese.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.
Business Green
JULY 18, 2022
In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Water and forest management, and other human factors, contribute to the severity and likelihood of these events.
Grist
MARCH 16, 2024
The unprecedented event reminded Joel Harper, a University of Montana glaciologist who works on the Greenland ice sheet, of a strange anomaly in his data, one that suggested that in 2008 it might have rained much later in the season — in the fall, when the region is typically in deep freeze and dark for almost 24 hours a day.
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