| By Linyi Zheng | The European Parliament approved the new Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition to protect consumers from misleading marketing practices and aid them in making better purchasing decisions by prohibiting deceptive environmental claims.
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| By Eliana Pisons | Japan has demonstrated its commitment to climate finance with the ambitious intention to issue $11 billion in climate transition bonds, set to be released in February.
| By Emma Kuruppacherry | For the first time, G20 countries agreed on how much action is needed to reach their clean energy goals and to triple renewable energy efforts by 2030.
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This year East Africa saw its worst drought in 40 years. After over 2 years of insufficient rainfall, famine and water shortages cost many their livelihoods and forced them to leave their homes.
The World Food Program stated that by the end of 2022, around 23 million people in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia were “severely food insecure” which means they had run out of food entirely and went at least a day without eating. However, a new study from a group of extreme-weather scientists revealed that this drought wasn’t a chance accident but a result of intensifying climate change.