The tree planting is part of a climate change project between the Welsh and Ugandan governments.

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With a barrage at least a decade away from generating power, other environmental groups question whether spending so much money on such a long-term project is the best way to address climate change and rising carbon emissions.

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones of West Africa (ACCC) is a project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by UNESCO and UNDP.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Moreover, exercising real political leadership on climate change would also re-invigorate the EU project, giving it a new aim and purpose, and helping to reconnect its institutions with its increasingly jaded half-a-billion citizens, inspiring them with a new sense of enthusiasm and common cause.

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By the end of the project, each of the participating pilot schools will have formulated a school DRR and climate change response plan in collaboration with the local community.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Finally, a question from Lib Dem Lord Ezra on carbon capture led energy and climate change minister Lord Marland to explain the Longannet project was withdrawn because "financing was going off the dial".

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The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO is implementing the project Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal zones of West Africa (ACCC) which is a tentative response to the problem of coastal erosion.

UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative