AfDB, Intel partner to equips over 3 million Africans with AI skills
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and technology giant Intel have teamed up to promote the ...
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Denmark provides CHF 4.9 m to scale up Early Warnings for All initiative in Africa
Denmark allocated CHF 4.9 million for a new four-year project contributing to scaling up Early Warnings ...
Report: Human-caused climate change added average 26 more days of extreme heat worldwide
A recent report said that human-caused climate change added—on average, across all places in the ...
NASA climate change satellite to examine heat emissions at Earth’s poles
NASA launched a climate change satellite, which is the first of a pair of climate ...
Survey: 92% of firms expect climate change to affect their business by 2050, 23% already impacted
A recent survey showed that nearly 92% of companies expect climate change to impact their ...
CREWS earmarks $ 77m to boost early warning system
The Climate Risk and Early Warnings Initiative (CREWS Initiative) has approved funding to boost progress ...
EC initiative on “Save the Planet by shifting taxation from labor to greenhouse gas emissions”
The European Commission (EC) has decided to register a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Save ...
IPA director urges more action to ease operation of startups in MEA region
Influence Public Affairs (IPA) Director Walid Ramadan asserted that it’s important for startups to be ...
Survey: 39% of US employees not confident they know how to use AI responsibly
A recent survey unveiled that 39% of US employees are not confident that they know ...
Honeywell uses trash, waste from forest, agricultural sites to develop SAF
Honeywell uses solid waste, which probably known as garbage or trash; and biomass, or waste ...
IEA: Global electric car sales set to reach 17 million by end of 2024
Global electric car sales are set to hit around 17 million by the end of ...
Official Development Aid falls $143 bn short of SDG17 target
The Official Development Aid (ODA) fell $143 billion short of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 ...
Research: 77% of F&B businesses willing to accept cost of implementing sustainable practices
About 77% of food and beverage (F&B) businesses expressed a willingness to accept cost-related trade-offs ...
Is climate change behind hiking chocolate prices?
Climate change is partly behind rising chocolate prices as cocoa crops are affected by rising ...
Food waste generates 8-10% of global emissions, causes $ 1 trln economic losses
Food loss and waste generates 8-10 percent of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – ...
Report issues 4 key recommendations for curbing health impacts of climate change
The 2023 MJA-Lancet Countdown report issued four key recommendations which called on communities, governments, industry ...
Report:40-190 m people expected to die over higher temperatures
Projections from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Climate Horizons platform show that under ...
WB’s $6bn package to Egypt focus on backing poor people, private sector
The World Bank plans to provide more than $6 billion of support to Egypt over ...
WMO: GHG levels, surface temperatures break records in 2023
A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed that records were once again ...
Report: Lebanon can lose millions over climate change..$ 7.6 bn investments needed
Lebanon – which is among the countries least prepared to face climate change – needs ...
UNCTAD: Clean energy systems expected to up copper demand from 23% to 42%
Demand for copper in clean energy systems is forecast to increase from 23% of total ...