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Multilateral development banks pledge $120b to climate finance

HQ Team November 13, 2024: At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, multilateral development banks (MBDs) announced a commitment to $120 billion in climate financing.

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to finance climate change.
Climate Health Medical

Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29

UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.

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Diseases
Climate

Small nations at risk of climate change floodings despite least emissions

HQ Team November 11, 2024: A recent study led by the University of Bristol has revealed alarming insights into the vulnerability of Small.

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Climate

2024 sees global temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels

HQ team November 9, 2024: The year 2024 is well on its way to being recorded as the hottest on record, according to.

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Dengue has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh since January as 79,598 cases, the highest so far this year, were reported in September.
Climate Health Pharma

Public health: ‘Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does’

HQ Team In our search for websites and organizations engaged in community health, public policy and similar endeavors, we came across “The Third.

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Malaria killed 1,157 people in Ethiopia during the first ten months of this year, and 7.3 million cases were reported in the landlocked East African nation — the highest number of annual cases recorded in the last seven years, according to the World Health Organization.
Climate Health Pharma

Malaria kills 1,157 people so far this year in Ethiopia, national risk ‘high’

Malaria killed 1,157 people in Ethiopia during the first ten months of this year, and 7.3 million cases were reported in the landlocked.

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Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every nation, a UN climate official said.
Climate Health Medical

Global heat to cripple economies, wreck billions of lives: UN official says

Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions.

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The world’s top 50 richest billionaires, with their private jets, yachts and polluting investments, produce more carbon pollution in over an hour than an average person does in their lifetime, a study by Oxfam reports.
Climate Health Medical

‘Luxury jets, yachts emit more carbon an hour than a person’s lifetime’

The world’s top 50 richest billionaires, with their private jets, yachts and polluting investments, produce more carbon pollution in over an hour than.

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Climate Health Medical

Climate change intensifies wildfires and pollution-related deaths

HQ Team October 23, 2024: Rising global temperatures have led to more frequent and severe wildfires in vulnerable ecosystems like those found in.

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In a small region in India’s technology capital of Bengaluru, social activists, despite initial hesitation from its urban poor, walked into Anjanapura and completed one of the country’s first short-term engagements to impart the skills to fight climate change.
Climate Health Pharma Research

A social project to fight climate change in India begins to yield results

In a small region in India’s technology capital of Bengaluru, social activists, despite initial hesitation from its urban poor, walked into Anjanapura and.

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