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Activists from Germany's Last Generation climate group targeted the office of Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Thursday, painting the message "Be honest!" on the building. Police said nine people were involved in the action at the Federal Chancellery, which according to Last Generation was addressed to Scholz directly. In a statement, the group asked the chancellor to address the climate crisis and the "acute" threat it poses to human life. Activists posted the same message earlier this week on the Willy Brandt House, the Berlin headquarters of Scholz's Social Democratic Party. The incident...
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Activists from Germany's Last Generation climate group targeted the office of Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Thursday, painting the message "Be honest!" on the building. Police said nine people were involved in the action at the Federal Chancellery, which according to Last Generation was addressed to Scholz directly. In a statement, the group asked the chancellor to address the climate crisis and the "acute" threat it poses to human life. Activists posted the same message earlier this week on the Willy Brandt House, the Berlin headquarters of Scholz's Social Democratic Party. The incident...
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Activists from Germany's Last Generation climate group targeted the office of Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Thursday, painting the message "Be honest!" on the building. Police said nine people were involved in the action at the Federal Chancellery, which according to Last Generation was addressed to Scholz directly. In a statement, the group asked the chancellor to address the climate crisis and the "acute" threat it poses to human life. Activists posted the same message earlier this week on the Willy Brandt House, the Berlin headquarters of Scholz's Social Democratic Party. The incident...
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New York (AFP) - Humans are as dangerous to Earth as the meteorite that drove dinosaurs to extinction, the UN chief said Wednesday, urging an end to fossil fuel ads after 12 months that were the hottest on record. Dramatic climate shifts have already begun taking a heavy toll worldwide, fuelling extreme weather events, flooding and drought, while glaciers are melting away and sea levels are rising. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a ban on advertising oil, gas and coal -- the main drivers of global warming -- as global climate monitors delivered a swathe of new findings signall...
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By Cat BARTON Séoul (AFP) - L'Afrique peut aider à "décarboner" l'économie mondiale si les pays développés investissent sérieusement pour "libérer" son "potentiel" en la matière, a affirmé mercredi le président kényan William Ruto dans un entretien à l'AFP. Venu à Séoul cette semaine pour un sommet Afrique-Corée du Sud, où cette dernière s'est engagée à verser une aide et un soutien à l'investissement de 24 milliards de dollars pour l'Afrique, M. Ruto a appelé les pays riches à faire davantage pour la transition vers l'énergie propre sur le continent, du transfert de technologie au financement...
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Paris (AFP) - Global warming has accelerated at an "unprecedented" pace as the window to limit rising temperatures within internationally-set targets closes, over 50 leading scientists warned in a study published on Wednesday. Looking at decade averages, temperatures climbed 0.26 degrees Celsius from 2014 to 2023, said the study published in the journal Earth System Science Data. In that same period, average global surface temperatures reached 1.19C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial benchmark for measuring a warming world. It marks an increase from the 1.14C reported last year for the decad...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A dangerous heatwave was building over parts of the western United States Tuesday, with forecasters warning of rocketing temperatures in an early taste of a possibly brutal summer for the region. The mercury was expected to top out at well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), with some areas experiencing highs as much as 30 degrees above normal for this time of year. Southwestern desert areas and California's Central Valley fruit basket were set to be particularly unpleasant, the National Weather Service warned. "Widespread temperature records are expected to b...
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German climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick intends to continue his hunger strike following treatment in hospital, as he called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take a stronger official position on climate change. The ongoing strike was announced on Tuesday morning by the campaign "Starve until you are honest." The 49-year-old was taken to hospital on Monday evening due to a circulatory collapse after 89 days of hunger strike. However, his condition was stabilized in hospital. He returned to the activists' camp at the Economy Ministry in Berlin. Metzeler-Kick said: "I had already decided befor...
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German climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick intends to continue his hunger strike following treatment in hospital, as he called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take a stronger official position on climate change. The ongoing strike was announced on Tuesday morning by the campaign "Starve until you are honest." The 49-year-old was taken to hospital on Monday evening due to a circulatory collapse after 89 days of hunger strike. However, his condition was stabilized in hospital. He returned to the activists' camp at the Economy Ministry in Berlin. Metzeler-Kick said: "I had already decided befor...
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German climate activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick intends to continue his hunger strike following treatment in hospital, as he called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take a stronger official position on climate change. The ongoing strike was announced on Tuesday morning by the campaign "Starve until you are honest." The 49-year-old was taken to hospital on Monday evening due to a circulatory collapse after 89 days of hunger strike. However, his condition was stabilized in hospital. He returned to the activists' camp at the Economy Ministry in Berlin. Metzeler-Kick said: "I had already decided befor...
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