In a 2012 article for The New York Times , journalist Edward Wong described Nepal’s Mustang District as “a caldron of myth.” Wong observed that “the stories that people told had evolved little over centuries,” and noted the “deep ravines and stinging wind and ancient cave homes” he saw […] Click here to view original […]
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WEST AFRICA, 26 May 2022 – Green, Social, and Sustainable (GSS) bonds market remains a new frontier for Africa that will help the continent build a deeper, resilient, and sustainable financing, according to policymakers, regulators, and peer sovereign issuers from across West Africa. The experts were speaking at a […] Click here to view original
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Central banks and regulatory authorities are progressively integrating climate risks into their activities. The Network for Greening the Financial System was established in 2017 to mobilize finance for transitioning and managing climate risk. Now with 108 central bank members, the NGFS signifies the importance central banks are placing on […] Click here to view original
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Credit…Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Images How bad is the climate stalemate? In the United States, we have gotten used to legislative inaction, on climate as with much else. But even by those debased standards a failure to pass a major emissions-cutting bill this Congress would be, potentially, a generational […] Click here to view original
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Computer model depiction of high temperatures on May 19, 2022. (Weatherbell.com) Two new climate attribution studies underline the growing role human-caused climate change plays in worsening extreme weather events. Driving the news: The first study , out Wednesday from the U.K. Met Office, shows that climate change has already […] Click here to view original
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This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine , an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews. Deep in the frozen ground of the north, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for millennia. But U.K. scientist Paul Glover realized some years back that it wouldn’t always be that way: One day […] Click here to view original
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