December 16, 2022
Africa: Four Ways to Overcome Corruption in the Race Against Climate Crisis
The writer is Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP Read more »
December 14, 2022
Africa: COP27 Fails Women and Girls - High Time to Redefine Multilateralism - Part 3
The writer is former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, former Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UN and former President of the Security Council. Read more »
December 07, 2022
Africa: COP15 - Shift in Societal Values Needed to Address Biodiversity Loss #AfricaClimateCrisis
Policymakers were encouraged to look at the economic and social aspects with the environmental elements of biodiversity losses to meet the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)… Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: COP27 Fails Women & Girls - High Time to Redefine Multilateralism
Three weeks have gone by since the much-ballyhooed mega-gathering of the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), generally known… Read more »
December 08, 2022
Africa: We Indigenous Peoples Are Rights-Holders, Not Stakeholders
After four failed rainy seasons, the land of the Maasai has withered. The worst drought in 40 years is a slow-motion storm of devastation in the Greater Horn of Africa, ruining the… Read more »
Ethiopia: Climate Change, Conflict Pushing Millions of Children Out of School
A silent catastrophe is unfolding in Ethiopia on the backdrop of years of inter-communal conflict and the most prolonged and severe drought in recent years. High inflation and food… Read more »
December 07, 2022
Africa: COP15 - We Are Losing Nature - Biodiversity - At the Fastest Rate in Human History
While climate change dominates the environmental headlines, quieter, startling changes are taking place in nature across the planet - whether in forests, oceans, deserts, rural… Read more »
December 06, 2022
Africa: Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Natural flows do not respect national boundaries. The atmosphere and oceans cross international borders with little difficulty, as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other fluids,… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Africa: This Planet Is Drying Up. And These Are the Consequences
Drought is one of the 'most destructive' natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Read more »
Africa: COP27 Was a Global Cop-Out, Critics Say
Last year's climate COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was billed as the most important conference in the history of humanity. But it failed to deliver. If anything, that failure added… Read more »
November 29, 2022
Africa: UN Assessed Contributions Needed to Generate Core Funding for Climate Loss & Damage
For decades, there have been non-conclusive deliberations regarding how the international community could support poor and vulnerable countries in their efforts to cope with and… Read more »
November 24, 2022
Africa: Was COP27 a Success or a Failure?
COP 27 was both better and worse than expected, say Prof. Felix Dodds and Chris Spence Read more »
November 23, 2022
Uganda: Women Tackle Domestic Violence With Green Solutions
Constance Okollet Achom, a Ugandan woman from Tororo, a rural village located in Eastern Uganda, has helped several dozens of her peers affected by domestic violence to address the… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage Fund Saves COP27 From the Abyss #AfricaClimateHope
They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising From Conflict and Climate Shocks
Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high international inflation, increasing global commodity prices, high… Read more »
Africa: Landmark Win On Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 #AfricaClimateHope
COP 27 delivered on what was the 'litmus test' for its success - consensus on the establishment of a fund on loss and damage. What seemed impossible was made possible, largely due… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Historic Loss and Damage Fund Takes COP27 to the Edge #AfricaClimateHope
After a tense impasse and many hours of negotiations, almost 200 countries struck a deal to set up a loss and damage fund to assist nations worst hit by climate change - a demand… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Africa's Agri-Food Systems Losses Ignored in Global Climate Negotiations
At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh,… Read more »
November 16, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Climate Change Exacerbates Vicious Loop of Human Rights Inequity
Climate change is worsening injustice globally, and the poor and vulnerable communities are the most affected. It is time the world acted on fulfilling human rights and building a… Read more »
Africa: Launch of EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan At COP27
As it moves to increase its climate adaptation finance, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched the EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan (CAAP) at… Read more »
Africa: COP27 - Show Me the Money - Supported By Policy
Climate change is an existential threat to humans and our ability to thrive on a healthy planet. But when it comes to rising temperatures, the inability of humankind to slow… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: Leaders Told to Put 'Kids First' At COP27
Lea is a three-year-old from Mexico who loves ladybirds. Siddhiksha, a six-year-old from India, has a passion for trees and wild animals. Rachelle is a 12-year-old Tanzanian who is… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Fiddling As World Warms
The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions… Read more »
November 08, 2022
Egypt: Repressive Regime Under Fire As It Hosts a Key Climate Summit
The COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh has triggered a negative fallout for Egypt's authoritarian regime which stands accused of human rights abuses -- and has been widely… Read more »
November 09, 2022
Africa: Why Continent Must Be Part of Growing Interest in Nuclear Energy
The search for energy diversification has taken a more frantic pace amidst the global energy transition debate. Read more »