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AFRICA

Biden’s unravelling Trump’s ‘America First’ may offer Africa a reprieve

The 46th president of the United States is ushering in a new foreign policy based on multilateralism

  • Adewale Aderemi
4 min read
As South Africa steps into a new chapter with the Climate Change Act, it is crucial to question the depth of its commitment and the substance of its promises. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
AIR POLLUTION

Planned fossil fuel output swamps Paris climate goals

The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible

  • Marlowe Hood
4 min read
A full quarter of that one-metre rise in the sea level by 2030 will be because of emissions from China, the United States, the European Union, Russia and India in the preceding 40 years (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
AFP

Even in best case scenario, oceans will rise dramatically

The sea level can be expected to rise by at least a metre by 2300 in the unlikely event greenhouse gas emissions fall to zero in the next 11 years

  • Afp
2 min read