January 26, 2023
Africa: As the #AfricaClimateCrisis Bites, Soil Needs Doctors Too
In a wiser world, the term 'treating someone like dirt' would be a good thing. After all, 15 of the 18 nutrients essential to plants are supplied by soils and around 95% of the… Read more »
Cape Verde: Cabo Verde Launches Blue Bond on Regional Sustainable Finance Platform
On 20 January, the world's best sailors arrived in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, completing the initial leg of the 2023 edition of The Ocean Race. Coinciding with this stop was the launch… Read more »
January 16, 2023
Africa: African Journalists: More Training & Resources will Boost Climate Change Coverage
At the end of a five-minute newscast from a makeshift studio in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the venue of COP27, Cotonou-based journalist Ghyslaine Florida Zossoungbo was able to… Read more »
January 11, 2023
Africa: An Oil Tanker Grounded Off Yemen Faces a Potential Humanitarian Disaster
The long-delayed salvaging of an abandoned tanker, the FSO Safer off the Yemeni coast, has been described as a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen. Read more »
January 09, 2023
Malawi: Malawi Suffers Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades
On March 3, 2022, Malawi declared a cholera outbreak after a district hospital in the southern region reported a case. This was the first case in the 2021 to 2022 cholera season. Read more »
January 06, 2023
Africa: Conflicts, Climate Change Threaten Sprouting of Africa's Great Green Wall #AfricaClimateCrisis
Escalating conflict and climate change threaten the implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), an ambitious land restoration project across Africa. Read more »
December 23, 2022
Africa: War, Famine, Disease, Disasters - 2022 - a Year Staring At Apocalypse
A year that started with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is ending with famine in Africa, while still spreading death and misery through an enduring pandemic and a deteriorating… Read more »
December 20, 2022
Africa: Global Biodiversity Framework - a 'Good Compromise'
In a landmark agreement, all parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) adopted the draft Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to protect at least 30%… Read more »
December 16, 2022
Africa: Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15
In addition to its nutritional properties, quinoa, an ancestral grain from the Andes, also has cosmetic uses, as stated by the resource use and benefit-sharing permit… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: Gender Target At COP15 - Russia's Single Word Objection Holds Up Process
Since the beginning of the high-level segment, tensions have been steadily rising at the 15th meeting of the conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity… Read more »
December 16, 2022
Africa: Four Ways to Overcome Corruption in the Race Against Climate Crisis
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December 15, 2022
Africa: COP15 - Impacts of Mega Infrastructure Projects On Biodiversity Stay Off-Radar
As the COP entered its crucial second week, negotiations are intensifying now. A slew of new contact groups - meeting mostly behind closed doors - are discussing the minutest… 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 13, 2022
Africa: Experts Seek Appropriate Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Experts agree that African economies need to develop innovative approaches to deal with plastic production, which is set to double in 20 years - adversely impacting rural… 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: European Court of Justice Ruling is Major Blow to Fight Against Illegal Fishing
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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 »
Africa: COP15 - Biodiversity Conservation in the Face of Growing Economies
Dating back to the 16th Century, the face of biodiversity conservation has taken several tolls and twists- evolving from an era of preservation to conservation- down to… 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 »