Search / Kyoto
Global Update: Which countries attract the most startups?
Starting a business requires guts, perseverance, and a viable idea in any country, but certain countries make it a little simpler for new businesses to get off the ground. America develops more startu...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 11:54hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
COP 26 Opens in Glasgow
The 26th meeting of the Conference of Parties (Cop26) has opened in Glasgow, Scotland with delegates deliberating on the Paris agreement and the Kyoto Protocol to mitigate the effects of climate chang...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 14:17hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
$7bn needed for cleaner energy in Zimbabwe
A CLIMATE change specialist has said Zimbabwe needs close to $7 billion to mitigate climate change effects by 2030.This was revealed last week in Parliament by director of water and climate ch...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo scientist in Nobel Laureate Meeting
A BULAWAYO-born scientist based in South Africa recently participated in the 68th Nobel Laureate Meeting which was held in Lindau, Germany.The meeting, which is held every year, allows some of...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'disappointed' over US double standards
Donald Trump has made good on his election promise, and pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. But Zimbabwe isn't excited about it, neither is it surprised by the US' double standards. In an interv...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Jeffrey Gogo
Govt targets Traditional leaders for illegal parceling wetlands to citizens
Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri has warned that the government will take stringent measures to arrest the traditional leaders who illegally parcel out wetlands to the peopl...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Fossil fuel industry responsible for the climate damage
It will be genocidal, atrocious and treasonous for fossil fuel companies that include Shell, EXmobil and Exxon to be left alone without being held accountable for the global climatic genocide they hav...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 14:07hrs | 3 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Mugabe arrives in New York
President Robert Mugabe has arrived in New York in the United States of America where he is expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change.The President and his delegation, which incl...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe jets off to New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for New York where he will join other Heads of State and government for the High Level Signature Ceremony of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.The P...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'African leaders now reversing the gains of independence,' says Mugabe
There is need for African leaders to re-examine their policies politically and economically as some of them are now reversing the gains brought by the continent's founding fathers, President Mugabe sa...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:02hrs | | by Felex Share
Mugabe meets Japanese corporates
Several Japanese corporates executives today met President Robert Mugabe in Tokyo inquiring how best they can do business in Zimbabwe and Africa.With the Tokyo International Conference on Afri...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe raps developed world's tokenism
PRESIDENT Mugabe has rapped the developed world for trying to shift goal posts at the ongoing 21st UN Framework Convention on Climate Change saying over 147 countries were gathered in Paris to reach a...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:08hrs | | by Caesar Zvayi
Mugabe off to Paris
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for Paris, France, to attend the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP21, that seeks to achieve a leg...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 05:11hrs | | by Caesar Zvayi
Mugabe off to France
President Robert Mugabe is embarking on yet another foreign trip this week, as he is flying out to Paris, France.He is attending an international climate change summit.Today, he is in ...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Zimbabwe Going Forward: Opportunities and Constraints'
Conference organized by Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)Meikles Hotel, Harare, Thursday 23rd October 2014Cli...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 23:10hrs | 1 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla, Alternate Secretary General (ASG), ZAPU
Indian man claims to be the world's oldest person at 141
An Indian father of 10, Feroz-ud-Din Mir claims he is the world's oldest person - at 141.Feroz has outlived four wives, and if his birth date proves to be correct it would make his current s...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 04:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
World's oldest man dies at 116
The world's oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116, officials in Japan said on Wednesday.Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospita...Published: 13 Jun 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Scientists discover a way to 'read' people's dreams
Scientists in Japan said Friday they had found a way to "read" people's dreams, using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind.Researchers have managed what they sai...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 12:33hrs | 6 | by Tech Reporter
Climate change: Africa is still on the receiving end
A UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the "Doha Climate Gateway." Its major achievements include the further extension until 2020 of...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Richard Munang and Zhen Han
Farmers see gloom if no deal is reached at COP 18
Farmers attending the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in the Qatari capital of Doha said they are pushin...Published: 27 Nov 2012 at 13:02hrs | | by Fidelis Zvomuya in Doha, Qatar
Mugabe to address Rio plenary session
Brazilian President Dilma Roussef will today officially open the three-day United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, while the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Z...Published: 20 Jun 2012 at 09:04hrs | | by Dorothy Mavolwane in Rio de Janeiro
'Climate change can be an opportunity for Africa'
Twenty years ago, the first Rio summit emphasized that environmental protection and economic development are complementary, rather than counter-posed priorities. How s...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 18:51hrs | | by Rebecca Moudio
Scientists in Japan confirm fat-burning protein
A team of researchers of Japan's Kyoto University has found a protein that helps the body burn fat following an intake of fatty meals, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Monday.The rese...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 08:42hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that the country has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol, thereby saving about $14 billion in penalties.Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to ...Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
Climate negotiators agree on a new U.N. climate deal
Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressiv...Published: 11 Dec 2011 at 13:11hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Is Tribalism the Future?
"This is a far, far away country about which we know very little," said Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as he declined to take his country to war over Adolf Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland....Published: 08 Apr 2011 at 12:08hrs | | by Patrick Buchanan
Experts aim to resurrect mammoth
Tokyo - Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years ti...Published: 17 Jan 2011 at 22:23hrs | 2 | by Byo24News
Load More Stories
