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In recent years, research Wright and colleagues led has highlighted how prolonged heat exposure places outdoor workers, children, older people and low-income communities at increased risk of dehydration, heat stress, respiratory illness and other adverse health outcomes. The risks are expected to intensify as temperatures continue to rise. (Envato Elements)

Debt, heat and uprisings: What Seville failed to solve

The UN Financing for Development Summit failed to deal with the real issue of funding Asian, African and other countries who are hit hardest by the climate crisis yet contribute…

Cliffhanger:  Buildings, roads and cars were destroyed as floods damage infrastructure across the eThekwini region in KwaZulu-Natal during April’s downpour in 2022 Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Polluters could pay for deadly KZN flooding

South African law might be used to hold major carbon polluters to account for their role in damaging climate events This content is restricted to registered users and…

An event banner outside the Al Wasl dome in the Green Zone ahead of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Photo: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

COP28 launches loss and damage fund

Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and the UAE, plus the European Union, have committed $420 million to the fund, with contributions from other countries…

Firefighters battle a blaze on Signal Hill in Cape Town. Wildfires are likely to become frequent. Photo: Rodger Bosch/Getty Images

UN report: Funding gap for adaptation much wider than anticipated

Wealthy nations default on payments for climate adaptation

Dire: An Amazigh woman looks after sheep near Amellagou village in the blistering desert of Morocco, where Morocco’s last nomads live. They say their lifestyle has become impossible to sustain because climate change brings ever more intense droughts. Photo: Fadel Senna/ Getty Images

Global pact needed to reset the climate finance system

The climate-vulnerable island of Barbados has come up with an initiative to do this very thing

Effects of climate change: Guludo on Ibo Island in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai struck in 2019. The country subsequently took out a $118 million loan from the IMF. (Zinyange Auntony/AFP)

Reparations a no-go zone at COP27

Developing nations are calling for the countries most responsible for climate change to pay for loss and damage

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy.

Barbara Creecy: South Africa’s stance at the ‘Africa’ COP

Financial commitments and pledges made by developed countries must be honoured and developed countries must offer meaningful and credible support to developing countries

(Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Loss and damage caused by climate crisis must top the COP27 agenda

About 21 million people on the Horn of Africa are projected to be in crises of acute food insecurity between now and the end of the year

Emissions rise from the cooling towers of the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Kriel coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. The level of sulfur dioxide emissions in the Kriel area in Mpumalanga province only lags the Norilsk Nickel metal complex in the Russian town of Norilsk, the environmental group Greenpeace said in a statement, citing 2018 data from NASA satellites. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Attribution science can help win cases against climate change perpetrators — researchers

If plaintiffs start winning cases against individual polluters, Eskom and Sasol could be sued in South Africa