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					<title>African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’</title>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2024 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[BAKU, Azerbaijan — A top African policymaker at COP29, the ongoing global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan has called for a better evaluation of Africa&#8217;s vast natural capital to reflect the true wealth of the continent. &#8220;It is time for Africa&#8217;s green environmental assets to be properly priced, allowing the continent to convert its massive [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BAKU, Azerbaijan — A top African policymaker at COP29, the ongoing global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan has called for a better evaluation of Africa&#8217;s vast natural capital to reflect the true wealth of the continent. &#8220;It is time for Africa&#8217;s green environmental assets to be properly priced, allowing the continent to convert its massive green assets into wealth through their inclusion in the GDP,&#8221; said Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and former agriculture minister of Nigeria. Africa is to home to some of the largest sources of natural capital in the world, including tremendous clean energy potential, abundant natural resources, uncultivated arable land, world-renowned biodiversity, and the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest area. However, despite this abundance, Africa continues to experience high levels of poverty and economic stagnation. &#8220;Its vast natural capital has continued to be significantly undervalued,&#8221; Adesina said. “While Africa&#8217;s GDP was estimated at $2.5 trillion in 2018, this figure was 2.5 times lower than the estimated value of its natural capital, which was assessed at that time to be $6 trillion,” he added. Economists say the failure to accurately account for Africa&#8217;s resources and contributions, significantly undermines the continent&#8217;s true value, resulting in a paradox where the continent is abundantly rich in natural resources yet struggling financially — often referred to as the resource curse. Thus, Africa finds itself in a situation described as “green-endowed but cash-poor,” highlighting the stark contrast between its rich potential and its economic reality. &#8220;Once Africa&#8217;s vast forests,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/african-development-bank-chief-calls-for-green-rich-continent-to-also-be-cash-rich/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>At COP29, US envoy upbeat despite looming climate policy changes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/at-cop29-us-envoy-upbeat-despite-looming-climate-policy-changes/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2024 22:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Bobbybascomb]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baku, Azerbaijan The outcome of the recent elections in the United States looms large on the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. As thousands of delegates gathered at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, the venue of this year&#8217;s meeting, questions lingered regarding the role and leadership [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baku, Azerbaijan The outcome of the recent elections in the United States looms large on the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. As thousands of delegates gathered at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, the venue of this year&#8217;s meeting, questions lingered regarding the role and leadership of the U.S. moving forward. However, the current U.S. special envoy for climate arrived here hopeful, reiterating Washington&#8217;s leadership in this critical global issue. &#8220;The work to contain climate change is going to continue in the United States with commitment, passion and belief,&#8221; John Podesta said to journalists at a press conference on the opening day. &#8220;This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet. Facts are still facts. Science is still science. The fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle in one country.&#8221; As COP29 opens in Baku, the global community is emerging from another challenging year marked by devastating extremes: relentless heat waves, catastrophic floods, widespread crop failures and fierce forest fires — underscoring the pressing need for action and collaboration among nations to fight the climate crisis. &#8220;This fight is bigger still because we are all living for a year defined by the climate crisis in every country of the world,&#8221; Podesta told journalists. U.S. voters elected Donald Trump as their next president following the elections Nov. 5th. Trump has referred to climate change as a hoax. He pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/at-cop29-us-envoy-upbeat-despite-looming-climate-policy-changes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Reconciliation through ecological collaboration (Commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/reconciliation-through-ecological-collaboration-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jul 2021 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[William F. Laurance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Europe]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the Okhchuchay River runs milky white, it means there has been another dangerous incident. The waterway begins in Armenia, passing through lands rich for mining, then flowing into Azerbaijan, where it feeds into one of its main irrigation systems – contaminating the food chain and threatening a fragile ecosystem. Cross-border pollution is becoming an increasingly contentious [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the Okhchuchay River runs milky white, it means there has been another dangerous incident. The waterway begins in Armenia, passing through lands rich for mining, then flowing into Azerbaijan, where it feeds into one of its main irrigation systems – contaminating the food chain and threatening a fragile ecosystem. Cross-border pollution is becoming an increasingly contentious issue in international law. It’s an especially thorny issue for Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have been enemies for the past 30 years. In the twilight years of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia went to war – with Armenia eventually occupying one fifth of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized land. Last autumn, when the two nations again fell into conflict, the situation was reversed when the occupied land was returned to Azerbaijan’s control. But with these actions, a door to cross-border collaboration on the environment has potentially opened. Ecologists from Azerbaijan have now been able to assess the damage further upstream, taking river-water samples near where the border was supposed to be at independence in 1991. The findings are alarming. Compared to the norm, the river was over 7 times more toxic in Nickel, 5 in Iron, 4 in Manganese and 3 in Copper-Molydenum compound. Google Earth image of the Kajaran Mine in Armenia. German-owned Mine On the other side of the border lies Syunik, a mountainous region rich in mining deposits. It is where the Kajaran mine owned by German group Cronimet – the largest in Armenia – is located. It represents over 60% of Armenia’s mining’s revenue, yet at great cost&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/reconciliation-through-ecological-collaboration-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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