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Jujutla (El Salvador), Sep 21 (EFE) (CAMERA: Vladimir Chicas) .- Organic home gardens are a method that a group of women from a community in western El Salvador are betting on to face the devastating effects of change climate.
Madrid, Dec 12 (EFE/EPA).- In the year that Iceland lost its first glacier due to climate change, experts from around the world have gathered at COP25 in Madrid to stress the urgency of the effects of this global crisis on mountainous regions.“We have to end the war against nature,” said Carole Dieschbourg, Luxembourg’s minister of environment, on Wednesday at the United Nations’ climate summit event "From Andes to Alps and other mountains."Mountains are seriously affected by climate change, so the study of their alterations has become crucial.“What happens is, it warms faster at higher elevations, so even if we could reach a 1.5-degree world by 2100, it would still reach 2 degrees in mountains,” David Molden, director-general of the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), which has been working in the Himalayan region for 36 years, said. (Camera: EMMA LOZANO). SHOT LIST: COP25 SUMMIT AND THE UNITED NATIONS’ CLIMATE SUMMIT EVENT "FROM ANDES TO ALPS AND OTHER MOUNTAINS" IN MADRID, SPAIN. SOUND BITES: CAROLE DIESCHBOURG, LUXEMBOURG’S MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT; CAROLINA ADLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT THE MOUNTAIN RESEARCH INITIATIVE AND CARLOS ESPINOSA GALLEGO ANDA, ECUADORIAN OFFICIAL (IN ENGLISH).
Attending world leaders and delegates pose for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Summit COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
Climate activist Greta Thunberg takes part in a protest for the first time since her arrest for a public order offence in London, for which she is currently on bail. The 20-year-old Swede took part in a demonstration outside JP Morgan's London office in the Canary Wharf business district, calling on the company to stop financing fossil fuel extraction. Climate activist groups have made a series of protests actions on the sidelines of the Energy Intelligence Forum taking place in London from October 17 to October 19. Thunberg is due back in court on November 15 2023. IMAGES
Humanity's addiction to fossil fuels has "opened the gates of hell," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says as he opens a high-level climate summit. SOUNDBITE