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Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, Francesco La Camera.

IRENA says Russia’s war is a ‘last lesson’ to be more energy independent

By Kenton X. Chance, ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC) – The Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Francesco La Camera, says that the energy crisis resulting from…

18 Jan 2023 6:00AM

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head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Achim Steiner, speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 14, 2023.

Shift to green energy shouldn’t become debt burden for developing world

17 Jan 2023 7:07AM

Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment. (CMC photo)

COP28 host UAE commits to ‘1.5 to stay alive’

15 Jan 2023 2:27PM

Gov’t to shore up efforts to save Salt Whistle Bay

15 Jan 2023 1:37PM

This year, EC$80.3 million of the EC$1.4 billion budget is allocated to environmental protection. The government continues to spend million on sea defence, such as this one concluded in Georgetown last September. (Photo: Lance Neverson/Facebook)

2022 UN Climate summit was ‘at best, a mirage in the desert’ — Gonsalves

12 Jan 2023 10:35AM

Guyana is home to large, virgin rainforests.

Guyana is to help St. Vincent with reforestation

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves announced from Georgetown this week, where he is on a four-day official visit. Kingstown is buying wooden houses from Guyana to replace those destroyed by the…

6 Jan 2023 6:41AM

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