Tackling climate change without halting economic progress
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The issue of human influence on climate change has been at the centre of public debate since the late...
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Cyprus will suffer dire consequences from climate change, research shows
Top researchers warned that Cyprus is faced with dire human health impact as it is among the countries situated at the climate change “hot spot”....
Nearly 10% of marine life threatened with extinction -Red List
The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are “devastating” marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so...
Our View: Children should not shoulder adult responsibilities
It was International Children’s Rights Day last Sunday and the child commissioner wasted no time in telling us that the children are very angry with...
Loss and damage finance tests global climate solidarity at COP27
By Megan Rowling Ruqiyo Mohammed, 25, a mother of four in drought-stricken Somalia, has seen her two-year-old son hospitalised for a month with severe malnutrition,...
Climate justice gets harder as world population passes 8 billion
By Gloria Dickie The world population surged past 8 billion people on Tuesday, the United Nations said, warning that more hardship is in store for regions already facing resource...
Cyprus renewable energy gets funding to build an intelligent platform for improved performance for photovoltaic parks
The world is moving towards renewable energy, such as PV, in an effort to limit climate change and offset dwindling and progressively more expensive and...
U.N. talks not ready to agree climate compensation fund, EU says
Talks about how to compensate vulnerable countries for the damage caused by climate change are not ready to agree on a funding mechanism, a European Union negotiator...
COP27: Loss of Arctic summer sea ice ‘inevitable’ within 30 years — report
By Gloria Dickie Climate change is rapidly melting away the world’s frozen regions, with summertime Arctic sea ice sure to vanish by 2050, according to...
COP27: What is ‘Loss and Damage’ compensation, and who should pay?
By Kate Abnett Nearly 200 countries who gathered for the UN climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable...
