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At COP27, climate ‘loss and damage’ funding makes it on the table
As planet heats, Brazil’s anteaters face rising extinction risk
Date: November 7, 2022
By Andre Cabette Fabio AQUIDAUANA, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As their geolocator device beeps, the team of wildlife rehab experts approach a cluster of trees and spot their quarry: A young giant anteater, sleeping on a hot morning with her luxuriant tail shading her head. She is a survivor of a fire holocaust that...
‘Negotiating our future’: Youth set to grab power roles at COP27
Date: November 7, 2022
By Laurie Goering SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fiji’s Sivendra Michael was just a year old when Pacific island nations first sought help in 1991, through planned U.N. climate negotiations, to deal with expected “loss and damage” from rising seas and other climate change impacts. This year, the 32-year-old, a disaster risk management...
Flood-hit Pakistan seeks loss and damage ‘compensation’ at COP27
Date: November 7, 2022
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan’s climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, is heading to Egypt for the U.N. COP27 climate summit with one goal: finally getting the world to commit to helping countries like hers deal with the growing “loss and damage” caused by global warming. As richer nations focus...
Analysis-Brazil’s Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap funding at COP27
Date: November 7, 2022
By Michael Taylor KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new alliance of rainforest nations – sought by Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – could be key to unlocking conservation funding and bolstering a flagging global forest pact at the COP27 climate summit, environmentalists say. Before narrowly winning Brazil’s run-off election vote on...
In U.S. midterm elections, rising rents stir up tenants
Date: November 7, 2022
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Weeks before the U.S. midterm elections, 65-year-old TJ Hughes got the news that rent on her Chicago apartment would rise by 80%, as prices for food and other essentials spiraled. Hughes’ only income is her government pension and her landlord’s rental spike for her subsidized unit...
How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero
Date: November 7, 2022
By Rachel Parsons PETERBOROUGH, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stephen Briggs popped open his pocket knife, carved a wedge from a small pink and green apple and took a bite. “Those are ready,” he said, looking at a nearby apple tree, one of 4,500 planted in neat rows through wheat fields on his farm near...