May 19, 2023
Rwanda: Rwanda - Better Mapping of Erosion Risk Areas Needed More Than Ever
Following severe flooding and landslides that hit major parts of Rwanda earlier this month, experts are convinced that investing in the mapping of erosion risk areas could go a… Read more »
May 18, 2023
Africa: Europe Sells 90% of Its Used Clothes, Textiles Waste to Africa and Asia
Once the money-making businesses have turned Asia and Africa into their low-cost factories, to produce and market at higher prices their clothes and footwear, obtaining more… Read more »
May 16, 2023
Africa: Why Quality Seeds Are Among the Most Valuable Currency in Climate Finance for Africa
At long last, momentum is growing for an overdue rethink of climate finance and development assistance to support countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Read more »
Africa: Will COP28 Catch the Next Green Wave ... or Will It Wipe Out?
The hosts of COP28 are betting big on business and a private sector "mindset" to deliver a successful event. Are they right? Professor Felix Dodds and Chris Spence review the… Read more »
May 12, 2023
Morocco: A Short Tale of a Tree and a Moroccan Wedding Party
A much needed break amidst so many alarming news, with a brief story of a tree, a bottle of liquid gold, and a wedding gift. Read more »
May 09, 2023
Kenya: Climate Change Threatens Historical Sites in Coastal Region
Along coastal Kenya, historical sites and monuments are threatened due to the impacts of climate change--structures along the Indian Ocean are falling to ruin or collapsing into… Read more »
May 05, 2023
Africa: Reshaping Multilateralism in Times of Crises
The world is in permanent crisis mode. In addition to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution,… Read more »
May 03, 2023
Africa: To Confront Our Current Crises, It's Time to Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is
The finance sector's role in the current global crises - notably climate, biodiversity, and food security - is significant. Read more »
April 25, 2023
Africa: Local Innovations Key to Meeting Challenges of the Climate Crisis
Several years ago, on a visit to a village in rural Zimbabwe, I met a small group of women with a story to share. Read more »
April 14, 2023
Africa: Vulnerable Countries Need Action On Loss and Damage Today and Not At COPs to Come #AfricaClimateHope
In March 2023, more than 600 people died in Malawi after Tropical Cyclone Freddy dumped heavy rain, flooding the southern part of the country, displacing over half a million… Read more »
April 11, 2023
Africa: Crisis? What Crisis? Western Media Failing to Convey the Urgency of the Climate Emergency
If an alien landed on Planet Earth today and started watching television and reading the newspapers, it would probably not realize that humanity and the natural world face an… Read more »
Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Golf Is Giving Cyclone Idai Survivors Hope
Trust Makanidzani's golf practice session with his friends is disrupted by a howling wind and a heavy pelting of water that thundered against rooftops at Chimanimani Golf Course in… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Malawi: Cyclone Freddy Devastates Communities, Farmers, Heightens Food Insecurity
In Sonjeka village in Mulanje district, which lies on the border with Mozambique in southern Malawi, destroyed crop fields stretch almost interminably after floods ripped through… Read more »
March 27, 2023
Kenya: Climate Resilient Indigenous Crops Underutilised Even As Climate Change Threatens to Cripple Food Systems
Elizabeth Njoroge recounts her poverty-stricken upbringing in Ting'ang'a village in the Central part of Kenya, growing up on a diet heavy on Amaranth and pumpkin. Read more »
March 23, 2023
Africa: If We Value Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Then We Must Fight for Climate Justice
Human life is sacred and every individual deserves an equal chance in life. We have a common desire, we all want to lead a free, fulfilling existence, with dignity, where our basic… Read more »
March 21, 2023
Africa: Climate Financing - World Bank Must Respond
It's one of the great injustices of this era that countries contributing negligible amounts to global carbon emissions are now feeling the most harrowing impacts of climate change. Read more »
March 20, 2023
Africa: Protecting and Managing the High Seas
On March 4 2023, the 193 members of the United Nations reached a major milestone. They agreed on a treaty to manage and protect the high seas- the marine areas that lie outside the… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Africa: Managing Water Sustainably Is Key to the Future of Food and Agriculture
In contrast to its strategic role as an essential resource to help achieve community development and poverty alleviation globally, groundwater has remained a poorly understood and… Read more »
March 14, 2023
West Africa: Terrorism And Its Impacts On Water Access in the Sahel
The writer is Regional Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA) Read more »
March 13, 2023
Africa: BP's Shift 'Back to Petroleum' Prods Consideration of a Climate Oil Price Cap
BP, the oil company that previously brought us "Beyond Petroleum" and more recently robust corporate climate goals, has announced a return in emphasis to its traditional business… Read more »
March 10, 2023
Africa: Vanuatu Twin Cyclones Underscore the Pacific's Vulnerability to Compounding Climate-Disaster Risks
Two destructive Category 4 tropical cyclones, Judy and Kevin, and an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude impacted over 80 per cent of the Vanuatu population from 1 to 3 March 2023. To… Read more »
February 28, 2023
Africa: The Case for Criminalising Ecocide
Genocide, war crimes, aggression, ecocide, crimes against humanity - which is the odd one out? The right answer is ecocide - destroying, polluting or damaging the natural living… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities
In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights… Read more »
February 27, 2023
Africa: Oil Corporation to Lead Climate Change Talks in 2023
The Chief Executive of the twelfth largest oil producer - Sultan Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) - has been appointed as president of the United Nations… Read more »
February 21, 2023
Tanzania: Govt Should Halt Plan to Relocate Maasai Pastoralists
Tanzania's policies on conservation and its ongoing impacts on Maasai people in Ngorongoro district highlight how communities historically marginalized by oppression still wrestle… Read more »