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UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

November 30, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. […]

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U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’

January 25, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’

PRETORIA, South Africa, January 25, 2023 (ENS) – In her meeting with South African officials today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a commitment between the U.S. Treasury and South Africa’s National Treasury to form a new United States – South Africa Task Force on Combating the Financing of Wildlife Trafficking. […]