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                            <title><![CDATA[Nuclear energy option too expensive, too dangerous for SA]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Anti-Nuclear energy protesters held a vigil outside Parliament in Cape Town in April on the seventh anniversary of a landmark Western Cape High Court ruling that halted a proposed R1-trillion nuclear deal. Without stringent and effective anti-corruption frameworks, nuclear energy could become a playground for profiteering, benefiting a few while the broader populace bears the economic and environmental costs, the writer says. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Heat wave crisis: Developing nations bear the brunt]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Clouds and wildfire smoke partially obscure a sun  setting through thick haze from recent wildfires seen on June 29, 2019 in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Countries in South and Southeast Asia have faced severe heat waves in 2024. – Picture: Emily Mesner / NPS Photo / via Wikimedia CCBy Pranjal PandeyIn April 2024, extreme heat hit South and Southeast Asia, affecting nations like India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Preventing water conflicts in Central Africa]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[The Ruzizi River forms part of the border between Rwanda on the east with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the west. Further downstream, it forms part of the border between the DRC and Burundi, and its lowermost reach lies entirely within Burundi, according to Wikipedia. As the Central Africa region is still in the process of development, there is a considerable learning curve. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Health in times of climate chaos: floods in Rio Grande do Sul]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul. Floods in Rio Grande do Sul call for immediate interventions to tackle health effects and long-term mental health repercussions. Calls to implement a National Environmental Health Policy increase among researchers and activists. – Picture: Ricardo StuckertBy Outra SaudeWeeks will pass before the waters recede in Rio Grande do Sul, and it remains uncertain when life might return to normal. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Rio Grande do Sul floods: It’s not the climate’s fault]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Heavy rains cause flooding across Rio Grande do Sul, in the state’s biggest climate tragedy. The environmental crisis has its origins in the very way in which the system organises the relationship between human beings and nature, the writers say. – Picture: MST / RSBy Márcio José, Renata Menezes, Camilo Augusto and Diógenes RabelloHumanity has deeply supportive values. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 07:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[The global left must dare to win on a tight deadline]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Youth climate activists in Uganda call for an end to fossil fuels on April 29, 2023. We must be honest and serious about what climate collapse means to our struggles for justice, peace and wages, bread, housing, education, and health for all, the writers say. – Picture: End Fossil: Occupy! By Joao Camargo and Leonor CanadasIt is time we — the left in social movements as well as the left in unions or political parties — come to terms with our own failures and face the present and future head-on, . . . ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Resource Curse grips Mozambique]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words 'Paris Agreement is Done' to celebrate the Paris UN COP21 Climate Change agreement in Paris. – Picture: File imageBy Ashraf PatelSince the signing of the UN Climate Change COP Paris agreement, new iterations to ‘end fossil fuels ‘has been the clarion call. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[1974: Portuguese climate activists on trial are true spirit of April 25]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Portuguese climate activists lower a banner reading, ‘The government and companies declared war on society and the planet’. On the eve of the anniversary of the 1974 revolution, 11 climate activists will be tried for actions in which they denounced the war carried out by governments and companies against humanity as a whole. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Uniting for water security in Johannesburg]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[South Africa - Durban - 22 March 2024 - Making handy work of the “Water for Peace” theme on World Water Day yesterday at Durban NPO Green Corridors’ Green Hub at Blue Lagoon are affiliates Siphiwe Mthabela, back left, Hafuswa Williams, front left, and Nangamso Radebe, front right, from Triecomvelo ecotours, with Arved Sillinger, from Bremen, Germany, who is a volunteer at Green Corridors. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Don’t let warmongers greenwash their ecocide This Earth Day]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[A person watches from a donkey-drawn cart as people search the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Asra residential compound, northwest of Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Destruction to the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security”, despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most significant threat, the writer says. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[African-led response to climate security risks across the Continent]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Rogiro / CC BY-NC-SA 2. 0 DEED – In 2021, the AU’s Peace and Security Council requested the AU Commission to conduct a climate security risk assessment to provide an overview of risks across the Continent. Action on many fronts is still lagging behind in relation to the level of risk associated with climate change. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[War is more than what you think it is]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Sergey Shestak / AFP / March 26, 2023 – A Ukrainian T-72 tank fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is a vast disconnect between what the military does, what we know, and what must be done to avoid ecological ruin, the writer says. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[UN “Summit of the Future” must deliver for the planet]]></title>
                            <link>https://theafrican.co.za/the-african/environment/2024-02-14-un-summit-of-the-future-must-deliver-for-the-planet/</link>
                            
                            
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Wikipedia – Orphaned ship in former Aral Sea, near Aral, Kazakhstan. Today, the Aral has shrunk to less than a quarter of its former size. By Adam DayIn September, the United Nations will convene a Summit of the Future, a “once in a generation opportunity” to reinvigorate global action, according to the UN Secretary-General. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Why climate change, health communicators need to work together]]></title>
                            <link>https://theafrican.co.za/the-african/environment/2024-02-13-why-climate-change-health-communicators-need-to-work-together/</link>
                            
                            
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: UNDP / Twitter – In an example of growing high-level interest in the topic of disinformation, the Nobel Foundation along with the US National Academy of Sciences hosted a three-day summit on disinformation last May. By Albert TrithartThe 2023 United Nations climate change conference (COP28), which wrapped up in December, took place amid a swirl of false and misleading claims about the climate crisis. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[How dare you shrug at the Doomsday Clock?]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight on January 23, 2024. For the second year in a row, the Doomsday Clock has been set — by scientists analysing the dangers faced by Planet Earth due to human exploitation and nuclear-armed geopolitics — at 90 seconds to midnight, the writer says. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[MENA region headed for more insecurity due to climate change]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Fethi Belaid / AFP / October 13, 2021 – The empty Sidi Salem dam in the northern Tunisian area of Testour, in the Beja province. The Sidi Salem reservoir supplies water to almost three million Tunisians, but years of drought across North Africa has left it critically low, an ominous sign for the region's future. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <description><![CDATA[Image: Reproduction via Brasil de Fato –  An indigenous Paiter Surui boy, Brazi. We must firmly reject this type of world that imposes so much suffering on Mother Earth, the writer saysBy Leonardo BoffIn the year 2023, facts occurred that haunt us and force us to think: there was a failed coup attempt in Brazil , two frightening extreme events: major floods in the South and devastating droughts in the North , followed by immense fires. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Niger Delta: Climate change and internal security operations]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Michel Isamuna / Unsplash / November 29, 2022 – Climate change is already compounding the level of competition for resources, resulting in conflicts in some parts of Nigeria such as in coastal communities, the writer says. By Freedom C OnuohaThe manifestation of climate change is driving dramatic shocks that exacerbate migration, disasters, and conflicts. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Oil Jabber heard in Dubai: Our top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / on December 12, 2023 – Climate activists hold hands together during a protest against fossil fuels during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, December 2023. The crucial linkage between climate crisis and macroeconomic misery was utterly ignored, the writers say. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Countdown to 2030: the state of the planet in 2023]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Yuki Iwamura / AFP / on August 14, 2023 – Charred remains of a burned neighbourhood is seen in the aftermath of a wildfire, in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 14, 2023. With only six years left to cut global CO₂ emissions by 45 percent from 2010 levels, are we on track to meet the aspirations of the Paris Agreement, or are we heading for the near-term collapse of our Earth’s systems? the writer asks. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[COP28: Cop-out or historical landmark?]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Taken on December 6, 2023 – Environmental activists display placards during a demonstration at the venue of the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 6, 2023. COP28 agreed to establish a loss and damage fund to support especially vulnerable countries, ‘but broken promises on transition funding from developed countries have floated like polluted plastic on the surface of oceans, drowning out prospects for a just transition in most African countr. . . ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Climate finance deal crucial for technology and transition]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Taken on December 6, 2023 – Environmental activists display placards during a demonstration at the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai this week demanding reparation and financing for nations severely impacted by severe weather disasters. By Sizo NkalaThe world is gathering in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for the 28th annual UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Conference of the Parties (COP28). ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Summit is opportunity to fight for credible climate goals]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Bryan Bedder / Getty Images North America / AFP / Taken on October – The president of the COP 28 climate change Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber  is “cautiously optimistic” about the success of the UN climate conference. It is “the most important COP” since the Paris Agreement, he said in an interview with AFP on November 25, 2023, should bring “good news to a world” threatened by the climate crisis and the repercussions of the Israel-Hamas conflict. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[What is possible for Peace and Conflict sensitivity at COP 28?]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture:  Igor Rugwiza / UN – On December 3, 2023, for the first time in the history of the annual climate change conference, COP 28 features peace, relief, and recovery as a thematic day, the writer says. By Annika Erickson-PearsonOctober 2023 was the warmest in history. Official adaptation and emission gap reports do not paint optimistic pictures. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Activists expect multiple obstacles during health discussions at COP 28]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: COP28UAE / X COP 28 is inaugurated in Dubai. While health is on the agenda at the COP 28 summit in the UAE, activists fear significant progress on climate and health will not be achieved due to a number of factors such as the presence of lobbyists from the fossil fuel sector. By Peoples Health DispatchThe latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28), which began on November 30 in Dubai, is unlikely to be the place where the world’s governments will decide to phase out fossil . . . ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[More of the same as Green Capitalism’s Contradictions deepen]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Taken on November 28, 2023 – People wait outside a building adorned with a COP28 logo ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on November 28. The UN chief urged world leaders to take decisive action to tackle ever-worsening climate change when they gather at the COP28 summit in Dubai starting this week. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Biden admin launches oil and gas drilling auction just ahead of COP28]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Andrew Harnik / EPA-EFE / POOL / November 7, 2020 – Then President-elect Joe Biden. The president promised while campaigning in 2020 to ban oil and gas leases on federal lands, but even before signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, thereby approving a stipulation requiring the White House to continue selling oil and gas drilling rights in order to develop offshore wind power, Biden faced condemnation for approving oil and gas leases at a faster rate than former Republican Pr. . . ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Expectations from COP 28: fewer words more action]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Emmanuel Croset / AFP / November 21, 2023  – A general view of heliostats at the KHI Solar One plant operated by Coxabengoa in Upington on November 21, 2023. Khi solar one is a thermal solar power plant with a 50mw capacity operated by Spanish company Coxabengoa. About 4,000 Helliostats (mirrors) pivot according to the sun’s position to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto the tower which heats water to evaporation, which is then directed to turbines to generate power. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA) / Taken on March 21, 2023 – In solidarity with the global climate strike, youth, civil society, and affected communities are marching in Cape Town  for system change to address the need for energy, water, housing, and food access for all. The groups are marching under the theme ‘Don’t Gas Africa’ and will be handing over a memorandum to Parliament. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Heated discussion expected at upcoming climate change conference]]></title>
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