You are here

Feed aggregator

43.000 habitants accèdent à l'eau potable à Damé

24 Heures au Bénin - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 22:24

Le Système d'Approvisionnement en Eau Potable multi-villages (SAEPmV) de Damé, dans la commune de Toffo, a été provisoirement réceptionné les 19 et 20 novembre par l'Agence nationale d'approvisionnement en eau potable en milieu rural (ANAEPMR).

Le système de Damé impressionne par sa capacité. Il comprend un château d'eau de 100 m³ à 18 m de hauteur, une bâche de 400 m³ et une station de pompage de 45 m³/h. Une seconde pompe peut fournir 30 m³/h. Huit kilomètres de lignes électriques ont été posés, deux transformateurs installés et un groupe électrogène de 20 kVA mis en place. Le réseau de distribution s'étend sur 45 km et dessert 40 bornes fontaines dans quatre villages.

Au total, environ 43.000 habitants accèdent désormais à une eau traitée et distribuée sous pression constante. Un pas supplémentaire vers l'objectif national d'accès universel à l'eau potable avant 2030.

Très ému, le chef de l'arrondissement, Lohou Assogba Antoine, a salué un « travail remarquable ». « Je félicite le gouvernement du président Patrice Talon pour cette vision courageuse », a-t-il déclaré. Il a appelé à étendre les efforts aux autres localités encore dépourvues d'un accès durable.
La mission marque la dernière étape après les constats techniques menés avec l'entreprise et le maître d'œuvre.

Une commission élargie a inspecté l'ensemble du chantier. Elle réunissait des responsables de l'ANAEPMR, des bureaux de contrôle, des représentants des finances publiques, des autorités locales et de l'opérateur fermier. Après une visite détaillée, la commission a validé la conformité de l'ouvrage. Elle a salué un travail « rigoureux » et un respect « scrupuleux » du cahier des charges.

Avec cette réception provisoire, Damé entre dans une nouvelle phase où l'eau potable cesse d'être un défi quotidien.
M. M.

Categories: Afrique, Swiss News

MarCom Conférence : Leila Akli dévoile les coulisses de l’événement marketing à ne pas manquer

Algérie 360 - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 22:23

À quelques semaines de la première édition de la Marcom Conférence, prévue les 07 et 08 décembre 2025 à l’hôtel Hyatt Regency Alger, nous avons […]

L’article MarCom Conférence : Leila Akli dévoile les coulisses de l’événement marketing à ne pas manquer est apparu en premier sur .

Schwarzkopf Gliss désormais “Made in Algérie” : Henkel franchit un cap industriel majeur

Algérie 360 - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:44

Henkel Algérie franchit une nouvelle étape stratégique avec le lancement de la production locale de Gliss, la gamme de soins capillaires emblématique de Schwarzkopf. Cette […]

L’article Schwarzkopf Gliss désormais “Made in Algérie” : Henkel franchit un cap industriel majeur est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique, European Union

Sidérurgie : l’Algérie rejoint le TOP 3 des pays arabes producteurs d’acier en 2025

Algérie 360 - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:03

L’année 2025 marque un tournant décisif pour l’industrie algérienne du fer et de l’acier. En l’espace de quelques mois seulement, le pays a enregistré une […]

L’article Sidérurgie : l’Algérie rejoint le TOP 3 des pays arabes producteurs d’acier en 2025 est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique, European Union

Defence industry: Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness

European Council - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness.

Media advisory - Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council of 27-28 November 2025

European Council - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Press briefing - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) of 1-2 December 2025

European Council - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
The press briefing ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) will take place on Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 14.30.

Defence industry: Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness.
Categories: Europäische Union

Media advisory - Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council of 27-28 November 2025

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.
Categories: Europäische Union

Press briefing - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) of 1-2 December 2025

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
The press briefing ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) will take place on Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 14.30.
Categories: Europäische Union

Defence industry: Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness

Európai Tanács hírei - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Council agrees position on simplification package to boost Europe’s defence industry and readiness.

Media advisory - Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council of 27-28 November 2025

Európai Tanács hírei - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Press briefing - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) of 1-2 December 2025

Európai Tanács hírei - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:00
The press briefing ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Employment, social policy and health) will take place on Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 14.30.

Chutes de neige et routes bloquées : la GN annonce la fermeture de plusieurs axes importants

Algérie 360 - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:53

Les premières neiges de l’hiver ont fortement perturbé la circulation, ce mercredi, dans plusieurs régions du pays. En fin de journée, les services de la […]

L’article Chutes de neige et routes bloquées : la GN annonce la fermeture de plusieurs axes importants est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique, European Union

Remišová: Elutasította a rendőrség Kaliňák feljelentését

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:50
A rendőrség és az ügyészség is elutasította a Veronika Remišová (Slovensko – Za ludí) parlamenti képviselő ellen Robert Kaliňák (Smer) védelmi miniszter által tett feljelentést.

Blog • Léon Tolstoï : grandeurs et petitesses d'un géant

Courrier des Balkans - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:37

La délivrance de Tolstoï, d'Ivan Bounine, traduit du russe par Marc Slonim, édition des Syrtes, Poche, 2025, 12 euros

- Lettres de l'Est et des Balkans • Le blog de Pierre Glachant /

Frontális ütközés a Rimaszombati járásban, meghalt egy 69 éves nő

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:21
Szerdán délután frontálisan ütközött egy Škoda Octavia és egy Dacia Sandero Bátka és Gömörfüge (Figa) között, a Rimaszombati járásban. A balesetben mindkét jármű sofőrje megsérült, kórházba szállították őket. A Dacia utasa a helyszínen életét vesztette. A rendőrség vizsgálja a baleset körülményeit.

From Access to Action — Carbon Markets Can Turn Developing Countries’ Ambitions into Realities

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:02

Local farmer ploughing a field in Indonesia. Credit: Unsplash

By Ana Carolina Avzaradel Szklo
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov 26 2025 (IPS)

The UN climate talks at COP30 once again brought the critical issue of climate finance to the forefront of global discussions.

However, while much of the debate revolved around traditional forms of aid directed at developing countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, a faster, more transformative approach lies in expanding access to carbon markets.

When emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) are equipped with the tools and knowledge needed to engage in these markets on their own terms, carbon finance can be generated and harnessed in ways that reflect their unique natural assets, governance, social contexts, and national priorities.

Achieving global climate and sustainable development goals depends on ensuring that those worst affected by climate change can fully participate in and benefit from this growing flow of finance.

EMDEs are on the frontlines of climate change — from rising sea levels threatening Pacific island nations to intensifying droughts and fires in the Amazon and Horn of Africa, and increasingly intense and frequent hurricanes in the Caribbean. These crises often hit hardest in regions that have contributed least to global emissions and in the most difficult position to react to them.

Yet, these same nations face a climate finance shortfall of $1.3 trillion per year. Carbon markets present an opportunity for these countries to bridge this gap by turning their natural advantages into climate finance assets.

Despite successful initiatives aimed at bolstering both high-integrity supply and demand for carbon credits, significant barriers to access persist, particularly for EMDEs. From fragmented policy landscapes to weak governance structures, limited institutional capacity, and low investor confidence, various obstacles prevent the vast potential of EMDEs to engage fully.

The Access Strategies Program — led by the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative — is a direct response to these challenges. It helps governments design and implement their own pathways into high-integrity carbon markets, enabling them to build the policies, institutional capacity, and investor confidence needed to meet their climate finance needs and transform their potential into progress.

Each country’s natural capital — from Brazil’s vast rainforest and agricultural landscapes, to the Caribbean’s blue carbon ecosystems, or Kenya’s grasslands and renewable energy potential — represents a unique competitive advantage, ready to be realised.

Simultaneously, no two countries share the same development goals or governance contexts. In some, carbon markets can drive forest conservation and biodiversity protection; while in others, they deliver the most impact by strengthening rural livelihoods or financing clean energy transitions.

The Access Strategies model recognises this uniqueness, tailoring its support to help countries use carbon finance in ways that align with their own specific economic and environmental strategies and goals.

For example, the Partnership for Agricultural Carbon (PAC) — developed with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) — is building capacity across Latin American and Caribbean agriculture ministries to participate in high-integrity carbon markets. It provides training, policy guidance, and decision-making tools that help governments and farmers identify viable carbon projects aligning with national agricultural and sustainability goals.

The collaboration has given small and medium producers a clearer route to investment, while positioning agriculture as a central player in regional climate strategies. Another example of the Access Strategies work is the recently launched Amazon Best Practices Guide, which will help Amazon state governments design and implement carbon market frameworks made specifically for their unique ecological and governance realities.

Moreover, in countries such as Kenya, Peru, and Benin, the Program has provided tailored support to develop policy and regulatory frameworks, strengthen institutional capacity, and attract responsible investment for high-priority climate mitigation projects — all in line with country-led goals.

These examples show what’s possible when governments have the tools and expertise to engage in high-integrity carbon markets on their own terms. More countries should seize this opportunity to tap into the growing flow of finance from carbon markets.

While carbon markets are not a silver bullet, they are one of the few scalable and self-sustaining tools available when grounded in integrity and tailored to each country’s needs.

Programs like Access Strategies do more than transfer technical knowledge — they build the enabling conditions for locally led action, drawing on countries’ unique ecological, social, and institutional insights to shape solutions that work in practice.

The focus of global climate action should not only be on new funding pledges, but on ensuring funding that is already available is effectively redirected for EMDEs countries to harness their own natural capital and promote social inclusion, while meeting their climate goals and reshaping their development pathway.

Building this kind of capacity is how we turn global ambition into lasting, locally owned progress, and moreover how carbon finance can become a true instrument of sustainable development.

Ana Carolina Avzaradel Szklo, Technical Director, Markets and Standards, Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)

IPS UN Bureau

 


!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');  
Categories: Africa, European Union

Megpróbált elmenekülni a rendőrök elől egy száguldozó sofőr Pozsonyban

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 18:51
Szerdán megpróbált elmenekülni a rendőrök elől egy 53 éves sofőr Pozsonyhidegkúton. Miután megállították, agresszíven viselkedett.

Pages

THIS IS THE NEW BETA VERSION OF EUROPA VARIETAS NEWS CENTER - under construction
the old site is here

Copy & Drop - Can`t find your favourite site? Send us the RSS or URL to the following address: info(@)europavarietas(dot)org.