The European Union’s new numbers on fast start climate finance for developing countries are highly questionable, according to the development agency ActionAid.
It is five days now since the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dubbed "COP 15" begun in Copenhagen, Denmark, and institutions and groups are making their positions known regarding the contents of the final working document.
"We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead," - Prof. James Hansen, Head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
As diplomats and delegates from the around the world gather in Copenhagen for a global climate change summit, a major rift is developing between rich and poor countries.
The heat is on in Copenhagen with smaller group demonstrations taking place several times daily inside and outside the 15,000 capacity Bella Centre, where the UN Climate Summit (COP15) is ongoing.
Since 2002 the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been working to put in place new trade Agreements (EPAs). EPAs replace the previous preferences for ACP countries, which became open to challenge in the WTO by other developing countries. The dilemma was how to safeguard the development requirements of the ACP while respecting international rules.
All the national team coaches of the African World Cup qualifiers have admitted that the group stage football games will be challenging and that "Africans should not expect easy games."
Climate change is not something that is coming; it is already here, and unless we prepare we are going to meet catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.
AFRICAN governments should adopt labour market policy interventions aimed at creating self-employment and establishment of enterprises, Labour and Social Services Minister Paurina Mpariwa has said.
Sharing a similarity in name but not ethnic identity with an indigenous settlement south east of Nigeria, the Ibo Island is a unique destination, with a dark and fascinating history.
AS TENSIONS grew at the United Nations (UN) climate change talks it emerged yesterday that the world's major emerging economies, led by China and SA, were calling for a "binding" amendment to the Kyoto Protocol requiring rich countries to slash carbon pollution by more than 40% .
When church bells start ringing in Copenhagen, and all around the world, on 13 December, they will not be heralding an early arrival of Christmas. Rather they will peal out a call to action and prayer to respond to impending climate change.
Five-hundred eighty-seven million people presently lack access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, a number that is projected to increase to almost 700 million by 2030, according to a report released by the International Energy Agency.
DEVELOPING states at the United Nations (UN) climate change conference, including SA, were unanimous yesterday in condemning the "Danish text" - a draft proposal for a new climate change agreement presented by Denmark two weeks ago which was dramatically leaked in the media earlier this week.
A proposal at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen that poor countries be paid for planting trees could spur Kenya's efforts to reclaim her forests.
In his 11 July 2009 speech in Accra, Ghana, US President Barack Obama declared, "America has a responsibility to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there is genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems - they are global security challenges, and they demand a global response.
Confused by the various datasets on sea level rise, global temperature, Arctic sea ice melt and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Help is at hand.
Climate change is real, and now is the time to act, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a U.N.-sponsored international conference in Copenhagen.
African countries signatory to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Programme (CAADP) and development partners have vowed to recommit to the principles of eliminating poverty by accelerating agricultural development.
It would be "embarrassing for the US not to be part of a solution to save humanity", representatives of the Group of 77 (G-77) in Copenhagen said Thursday.
The U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations agencies in Rome, Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, announced an additional $70 million in emergency food aid to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) December 9, providing an additional 92,310 metric tons of food for the 2010 calendar year.
Countries taking part in Africa's most detailed survey of research and innovation to date have been given a three-month extension to gather the required data.
Copenhagen offers the prospect of a robust political deal, endorsed by the world's leaders and witnessed by its people, that sets out clear targets and a timeline for translating it into law.
AT last a cloud of uncertainty has been cleared by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), over the participation of Tanzanian clubs in next year's continental inter-club competitions.
Even as farmers in Africa try to lessen the impact of climate change by growing green fuel crops like Jatropha, the technology required to process these seeds into economically viable products is lacking and debate on how to transfer it from the West is one of the contentious issues at the ongoing Copenhagen climate talks.
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