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Africa’s push to triple adaptation finance left off official COP31 agenda

Headline via RFI · first report 11 Nov, 10:54 IST, latest 12 Nov, 16:15 IST

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3 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from allAfrica at 11 Nov, 10:54 IST; the latest is from France 24 at 12 Nov, 16:15 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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First report11 Nov, 10:54 IST
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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] WHAT: The Africa Day High-Level Side Event, at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). THEME: "Securing Africa's Water: Unlocking the Continent's…
African countries’ proposal to triple adaptation finance has been left off the agenda at the UN climate summit, Cop31, under way in Antalya, Turkey. Wealthy nations pushed back against efforts to make it a formal, binding agenda item.
As the COP31 climate summit gets under way this week in Turkey, experts are calling for zero-waste solutions to tackle Africa's growing waste crisis. As governments search for ways to address the crisis, a new report warns of a growing push for…

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