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Deadly rains in Congo are now predicted to occur every two years

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

This month’s extreme rainfall that caused destructive floods in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), leading to at least 33 deaths, cutting off major roads and sweeping away homes, is set to occur every two years at current levels of global warming, scientists have found.
As Trump upends aid and markets, who will pay for green development in Global South?

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Laurie Goering

Funders of climate and development action face a gargantuan task at key gatherings over the coming weeks: working out how to move ahead when the world’s biggest aid donor is turning off the tap and causing turmoil in global financial markets. Since taking office, US President Donald Trump’s team has moved to end $54 billion in overseas aid contracts – about 90% of its spending – while also pressuring allies in Europe to shift aid budgets to defence.
In Ethiopia, EV ambitions are hitting bumps in rural areas

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime |Solomon Yimer

As Ethiopia’s rising fuel prices eat into his daily earnings, motorcycle taxi rider Teshale Natnael says an electric scooter would be the “perfect solution”. But there’s a hitch. “We don’t have electricity in our village,” Teshale, 25, said as he sipped from a steaming cup during his coffee break in Dubancho village near Yirba, a small town in the Sidama region about 350 km (220 miles) south of Addis Ababa.
Loss and damage fund to hand out $250 million in initial phase

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) will spend $250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial set of interventions to help developing countries deal with the aftermath of climate-driven disasters. At a three-day meeting in Barbados, the UN fund’s board agreed on the strategy for the start-up phase of the mechanism, which will initially focus on strengthening national responses to climate catastrophes rather than community-level action – something activists had called for.
Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

Governments at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have agreed on a set of annual emissions reduction targets for 2028 to 2035 along with financial penalties for failing to meet them. After a week of talks in London, they voted through a decision that ship owners should reduce the emissions intensity of their vessels – the amount of climate-heating emissions per unit of fuel – by 30% by 2035 and 65% by 2040, both against 2008 levels.
China and India block attempt to reveal how each ships pollute

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

After pressure from Chinese and Indian negotiators, an attempt led by the European Union to reveal how much pollution each of the world’s ships is pumping into the atmosphere has failed. Governments agreed on Thursday during talks at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, to anonymise data on the carbon intensity of ships’ fuels and their emissions so that businesses and the wider public cannot use it to identify individual vessels.
Power-hungry AI data centres seen driving demand for fossil fuels

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Surging artificial intelligence (AI) use will drive up demand for fossil fuels to power data centres, but widespread adoption of AI applications could reduce greenhouse gas emissions overall, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report. Power-hungry data centres will consume as much electricity by 2030 as Japan uses today – more than double their current demand – largely as a result of the global AI rush, the Paris-based watchdog forecasted.
Teens' mental health suffers on Africa's climate frontlines

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Paula Dupraz-Dobias |Megan Rowling

Teaching climate-resilient farming to young people in rural Global South communities and encouraging them to stay in school could help ward off mental health problems triggered by worsening climate change impacts, according to new research in Africa.
Governments set to agree fees for ships that miss green targets

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

Government negotiators at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London this week look set to agree that, from 2027, the owners or operators of ships that fail to meet targets to reduce emissions from their fuel should be penalised financially.
Trump follows the minerals trail for weapons, not clean energy

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

While US President Donald Trump has ripped up much of his predecessor’s climate and foreign policy, he has pushed forward with Joe Biden’s pursuit of metals and minerals abroad while shifting the strategic focus from clean energy to military use, analysts say. Biden spent some of his final days as US leader in Angola, talking up a railway that will bring copper and cobalt from Central Africa to the continent’s west coast wherethe materialscan be shipped to the US.