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FILE PHOTO: Blacktip sharks swim off Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.   Picture taken January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos/File Photo
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Ecuador nature deal scrutiny has not slowed work on debt swaps, IDB says

An enquiry into Ecuador's debt-for-nature swap has not slowed work on the instruments, president of the Inter-American Development Bank said.

A recent study found storms as powerful as Hurricane Helene were used to be expected once every 130 years but now occur closer to once every 53 years on average (NOAA)
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Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study

The study also found that fossil fuels — the primary cause of climate change — have made hurricanes like Helene 2.5 times more...

A Manila coal plant could be a model for how developing countries can quit polluting fossil fuel (AFP)
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Can carbon credits help close coal plants?

A Philippine coal plant could close early by converting to renewables, funded through carbon credits to cut emissions.

A dam built by a woman farmer in a Tunisian village has turned her into a local hero after it helped increase local growers' yields (AFP)
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With EU funding, Tunisian farmer revives parched village

In Tunisia, a locally-built dam with EU funding helps farmers combat drought, boosting crop production despite water scarcity.

Women workers from the 'Hojuelas de Miel' beekeepers association use a brush to remove bees while harvesting honey in Chilal de la Merced, in the rural region of Cajamarca, Peru, on July 22, 2024 (AFP)
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How climate funds helped Peru’s women beekeepers stay afloat

In the mountains of northeast Peru, a group of women beekeepers have plucked millions of bees from the jaws of death and saved...

Natural England chairman Tony Juniper is set to warn that 90% of the UK’s wetlands have been lost in the modern era (Steve Parsons/PA)
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Natural England boss to call for new approach to nature as economic asset

The chairman of Natural England is set to call for a whole new approach to nature as an asset that underpins the UK’s...

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Papua New Guinea, IMF reach staff-level deal to release $265 million for climate change

Papua New Guinea and IMF reach a $265M staff-level deal to boost climate resilience, pending executive board approval.

September saw extreme rainfall and destructive storms in many parts of the world, events that are occurring with greater severity and frequency as global temperatures rise due to climate change (AFP)
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September second-warmest on record: EU climate monitor

September 2024 was the second-warmest on record, with extreme rainfall and storms driven by rising global temperatures.

Poorer countries on the frontlines of climate change will need trillions of dollars in financial aid to install clean energy and adapt to global warming (AFP)
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COP29 fight looms over climate funds for developing world

For developing countries, who pays is non-negotiable: the 2015 Paris climate agreement reaffirmed that developed countries pick up the tab.

The COP16 summit comes as Brazil and other Latin American countries struggle to emerge from one of the worst wildfire seasons in years (AFP)
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UN biodiversity summit in Colombia aims to turn words into action

Representatives from some 200 countries are expected at the Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 COP16 biodiversity conference in the Colombian city of Cali.

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