By Naomi Antony
Spending more on climate change research could put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk by stripping away precious global health funding, Bill Gates has said.
In his 2010 Annual Letter — the second of its kind, released last week by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation — the philanthropist warned that aid budgets may [...]
By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
By T. V. Padma
Four rapidly developing countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China (known as BASIC) — have vowed to boost climate science cooperation among themselves and other developing countries.
The countries’ environmental ministers, who met in Delhi 24 January, said their countries will develop a framework for permanent scientific cooperation on climate change and [...]
By Fred Oluoch-Ojiwah
With a New Year starting we ponder on what came to be known as the Copenhagen Accords as announced last month.
Whether President Barack Obama knew what the global agreement he had helped to craft meant for Mama Sarah his Kenyan granny, her friends and other folks holed up in dire poverty somewhere in [...]
By Ban Ki-Moon*
The lines were drawn as the industrialized nations of the Group of Eight gathered in Heiligendamm, Germany on 6 June 2007. The forces mustered to fight global warming were divided into competing camps.
Germany and the United Kingdom sought urgent talks on a new climate change treaty, to go into effect when the [...]
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