The Elephant
A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
DR Congo floods leave more than 2 million in need of aid: UNICEF
2024-02-08 in La Prensa LatinaKinshasa, Feb 8 (EFE).- More than 2 million people, 60 percent of them children, need humanitarian aid due to the floods in the last two months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund said. The Congo River, the world’s third largest by water discharge volume, has reached levels …
Tagged under: Rivers | Women and Children | Congo
Rainforest Investigations Network
2023-09-19 (or before) in pulitzercenter.orgThe Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) harnesses investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to expose the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. READ THE REPORTING | HOW IT WORKS | JOIN THE NETWORK | IMPACT HOW IT WORKS Each year of the initiative, the Pulitzer Center puts out a call for applications to dedicate a whole year to investigating deforestation in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions. In its first year, RIN selected 13 Fellows from 10 countries. In the second year, the group expanded to 19 Fellows from 12 countries...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Congo | Rivers | Brazil | Trees
Targeting Congolese exploration, Greenpeace pursues insurers
2023-09-08 by in Energy VoiceThe report finds that coverage for the oil blocks would be “prohibitively expensive” for any winning companies. Congo lacks the capacity domestically to provide insurance.
Tagged under: Congo | Africa | Insurance | Greenpeace
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
2023-05-11 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewIn an attempt to protect its forests and its famous gorillas, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what the hell crypto has to do with conservation.
Allegations of Rights Abuses in WWF-managed Ntokou Pikounda National Park - Rainforest Foundation UK
2023-03-28 by in Rainforest Foundation UKWorrying reports of forced displacement and human rights abuses have emerged from the Republic of Congo’s youngest national park. Rainforest Foundation UK’s local partner Centre d’Actions pour le Développement (CAD) just published an investigation around Ntokou Pikounda National Park, finding that neighbouring indigenous and local communities have suffered and continue to suffer serious harm ... Read more
Tagged under: Rainforests | Congo
The next Amazon? Congo Basin faces rising deforestation threat
2022-11-12 (or before) in Context NewsTagged under: Deforestation | Congo | Amazon Rainforest
How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests
2022-11-10 in The GuardianThird of Congo basin’s tropical forests are under threat from fossil fuel investments, undermining climate action, report warns
Tagged under: COP27 | Congo | Rainforests | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Trees
Exclusive-Lula pushes Brazil-Indonesia-Congo COP forest alliance if elected
2022-09-02 (or before) by in kfgo.comBy Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's aides are reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to form a united front of countries with the most tropical rainforest at thi...
Tagged under: Congo | Rainforests | Brazil | Trees | Indonesia
Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’
2022-07-24 in The New York TimesTagged under: Congo | Land Use | Africa | Greenpeace | Trees
Green Energy’s Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources
2022-07-04 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasThe scramble for battery metals threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history.
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | China | Minerals | Africa | Colonialism
DR Congo approves auction of oil blocks in one of the world's largest carbon sinks
2022-05-03 by in Climate Home NewsAt least three of 16 oil blocks earmarked for drilling overlap with the world’s largest tropical peatland complex, posing a double threat to the climate
Tagged under: Congo
‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
2022-04-28 in The GuardianTropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss
Tagged under: Deforestation | Congo | COP26 | Rainforests | Brazil | Africa | Wildlife | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Trees | Indonesia
‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
2021-11-25 in The GuardianChinese companies dominate mining, battery and manufacturing sectors, and amid human rights concerns, Europe and the US are struggling to keep pace
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | Africa | Electric Cars | Cars
How the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Contest for Clean Energy
2021-11-21 in The New York TimesTagged under: Renewable Energy | Congo | China | Greenhouse Gases | Cobalt | Barack Obama | US Politics
‘Large-scale human rights violations’ taint Congo national park project
2020-11-26 in The GuardianConservation groups proposing a protected area in the river basin accused of ignoring the interests of the Baka people
Tagged under: Congo | Africa | Rivers | Trees
US court orders $135 million for shareholders of stolen DR Congo mine, but local communities left out
2020-11-05 (or before) in raid-uk.orgHedge fund Och-Ziff to pay restitution to Africo shareholder victims in DRC corruption case
Tagged under: Congo
Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon
2020-02-28 in The GuardianOil exploration in one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet could release greenhouse gases equivalent to Japan’s annual emissions
Tagged under: Congo | Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Fossil Fuels
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
2019-12-16 in The GuardianDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
Tagged under: Children | Tesla | Congo | Cobalt | Africa | Women and Children
Child miners aged four at Congo cobalt mine | Daily Mail Online
2019-12-01 (or before) in Daily Mail OnlineDorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.
Tagged under: Children | Congo | Cobalt | Health | Women and Children
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018
2019-04-25 in The GuardianPristine forests are vital for climate and wildlife but trend of losses is rising, data shows
Tagged under: Deforestation | Congo | Rainforests | Brazil | Africa | Wildlife | Trees | Indonesia
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