Uk Unveils New Initiatives to Combat African Climate Change

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The UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change is scheduled to wrap up its two-week summit in Paris on Saturday, and the main purpose of it is to hammer out a deal to keep global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels, reports the New York Times.

The main goal of the summit is to get both developed and developing countries to agree on how much money they'll devote to fighting climate change over the next five years, and how much of it they'll actually put toward it.

(The US, for example, has pledged $30 billion over the next five years.) The summit is taking place at a time when the amount of money available to fight climate change is at an all-time low, according to the Guardian, and the lack of agreement on how much of that money to put toward it is causing some countries to back away from the conference.

The UK, for instance, announced today that it's giving Africa $49 million to fight climate change, reports Al Jazeera.

The money will go to projects in 15 African countries to help women, farmers, and communities deal with the effects of climate change, as well as to improve water security and water quality for more than 1.5 million people, reports

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