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€100m eco-cash splash: Small firms in Spain’s Catalunya handed loans to fight climate change
Olive Press
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July 20, 2025
SMALL businesses across Catalunya have been handed a €100?million credit line to help them go green – and fast. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has teamed up with Catalunya’s public development bank, the Institut Catala de Finances (ICF), to...
Church members join calls for urgent action on climate change
Basingstoke Gazette
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Representatives from St John’s Church in Hartley Wintney travelled to Westminster on Wednesday, July 9, to join more than 5,000 campaigners urging MPs to take stronger action on climate and nature. The group called on MPs to support measures...
Increasing clashes between elephants and humans in Zimbabwe highlight the effects of population pressure and climate change
El País
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July 20, 2025
Joramu Dipuka gets nervous every time he hears an elephant’s trumpet. Dipuka, who lives in Batonga, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Kariba in Zimbabwe, a city 356 kilometers (221 miles) from the capital, Harare, is frightened by the sound...
Strong support for proposed Climate Change Bill
The Malaysian Star
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July 20, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: The Alliance for a Safe Community has voiced strong support for the government’s proposed Climate Change Bill, calling it a “bold step forward” in Malaysia’s ongoing efforts to combat global warming. Its chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam...
Climate change focus of Heritage Park Museum exhibit
Terrace Standard
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Climate change in northern B.C. Climate change in northern B.C. is the subject of Heritage Park Museum's annual temporary exhibit this year, Called "Heat, Hope and Home: Global Climate Change, Local Consequences," the exhibit explores questions of...
Climate change ‘sanctuary city’ one possibility for Brandon
Brandon Sun
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July 19, 2025
Opinion Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says that as wildfire seasons become longer, increasingly frequent and more severe, the province must adapt in order to keep its citizens safe. During a media conference on Wednesday, he argued that “Our province...
Climate change is no longer a distant threat — it is a health emergency unfolding in real time
Dawn
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July 19, 2025
Updated 19 Jul, 2025 Thursday’s events must be seen not as an isolated disaster, but as a warning of what lies ahead. 19 Jul, 2025 THE Gaza siege has now crossed 650 days and the situation continues to take one ugly turn after another. True,...
Climate change-linked risks, hazards to people at work are growing, especially in mining and quarrying
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 18, 2025
Mining and quarrying workers are increasingly at risk from harm posed by temperature rises, extreme weather and increased demand for materials, says global safety charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation in its ‘Global Safety Evidence Centre’ report....
Green Party co-leader to visit Cook Islands for breast cancer advocacy
Cook Island News
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July 18, 2025
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leader Marama Davidson. SUPPLIED/25071741 Marama Davidson, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and breast cancer survivor, will visit Rarotonga from Thursday, 31 July to Tuesday 5 August at...
Climate change is not the primary cause of flash floods, contrary to what columnist implied: Letter to the Editor
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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July 18, 2025
The July 17 column by Bloomberg Opinion’s Mark Gongloff (“The flash-flood era is here and we’re not ready”) implies that all damage from flash floods is ultimately caused by climate change. This may be true in some cases, but not most. Most...
Climate change, urbanisation escalating disasters: Chief Secretary
Greater Kashmir
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July 18, 2025
Srinagar, Jul 18: In a significant step towards enhancing disaster resilience and preparedness, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir conducted a high-level workshop on the Incident Response System (IRS) today. The workshop was attended by...
The reach of climate change encircles the world
The Age
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July 19, 2025
Public’s right to know I wholeheartedly agree with the Editorial ″Silence the response on taxpayers’ money″ (16/7). Statements such as ″Victorians have a fundamental right to know. To withhold information involving such vast amounts of money is...
RBI Dy Governor pitches for global unity, tech transfer to tackle climate change
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 19, 2025
RBI Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao has called for enhanced global cooperation , including technology transfer and R&D funding, to deal with challenges posed by the climate change. Stressing that no country could achieve net-zero in isolation, he...
Residents engage in climate change delivery plan
BBC
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Residents in Surrey are being invited to help shape the county's next five-year climate change delivery plan. The plan will set out priority areas to tackle climate change and initiatives that "will benefit residents' everyday lives", a Surrey...
MSMEs more at risks for climate change: RBI dy guv
ETBFSI.com
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July 19, 2025
Mumbai: RBI deputy governor M Rajeshwar Rao said increasing frequency of extreme weather events is raising credit risk for banks, given their exposure to sectors vulnerable to climate change. "Climate change is a phenomenon which we are seeing and...
PNG Parliament passes Climate Change Act
Pacific News Service
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Papua New Guinea Parliament has unanimously passed the Climate Change (Management) Act 2015 establishing the legal framework and empowering the Government to enforce and collect tax revenue from carbon levies, nitrogen levies, and activities...
Human-induced climate change: Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia
RTL Today
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July 18, 2025
This year's wildfires in Canada have the potential to surpass its second most destructive fire season, but should not be on the extraordinary scale experienced in 2023. Canada's wildfires have burned more than 13.6 million acres (5.5 million...
Climate change: The energy revolution begins
Zimbabwe Independent
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China also leads the world in newly installed wind power, new nuclear plants under construction, electric vehicle production Start with China, the world’s biggest emitter by far of greenhouse gases: 27% of the entire world’s emissions, and more...
OICCI shows concern over climate change impacts in Pakistan
The Nation
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July 19, 2025
ISLAMABAD - The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives and widespread devastation caused by recent flash floods and torrential rains in various parts of Pakistan. These recurring...
OICCI shows concern over climate change impacts on Pakistan
Business Recorder
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July 19, 2025
KARACHI: The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives and widespread devastation caused by recent flash floods and torrential rains in various parts of Pakistan. Our thoughts and...