CBU Media Awards Winner-History made on day one at COP28 as Loss and Damage fund adopted

CBU Media Awards Winner-History made on day one at COP28 as Loss and Damage fund adopted

A nearly 30-year fight has ended as the Loss and Damage Fund has been adopted at COP28, the international climate conference underway in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. COP28 President Dr Sultan Al Jaber gavelled the adoption of the draft decision for the Loss and Damage Fund yesterday afternoon during...

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CBU Media Awards Winner-Paramaribo versus water: The effects of climate change on Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname

CBU Media Awards Winner-Paramaribo versus water: The effects of climate change on Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname

This article was written with support from Climate Tracker’s Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship. In the book Waterjager, author Chris Polanen paints a gloomy picture where the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo, is underwater. The streets have turned into creeks. The flats are completely under the water and the houses on stilts...

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CBU Media Awards Winner-‘Some of these classrooms are furnaces!’

CBU Media Awards Winner-‘Some of these classrooms are furnaces!’

Schools taking steps to reduce heat stress on students as temperatures continue to rise AN OCCASIONAL whiff of breeze from the nearby sea does little to ease the sweltering heat that blankets the Donald Quarrie High School in east Kingston. With almost no trees to provide shelter from the sun’s...

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