Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed.
Poor women will bear the greatest 'climate burden', says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
Mombasa Polytechnic University College students on Friday held a special event to showcase their concern for the climate change if the planned World Summit on Copenhagen does not come up with an amicable solution.
"Hunger is the lack of rain." ("A fome é a falta de chuva"): these are the words of a local farmer from Chicualacuala, a small town situated in the South-west of Mozambique, when asked about the causes of food insecurity in the country.
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has set aside R20 million to rebuild houses for the families who were left homeless after a storm hit the Nkwezela area on 6 November.
Representatives of five local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the climate change sector of the economy, and an international movement, were shocked to the marrow when they turned up at the consulate section of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Accra last Wednesday morning, to present a petition to the Ambassador.
Side corporate tournament as organisers have moved the kick-off to Friday, 20 November 2009 instead of the usual kick-off date which is in the early months of the next year.
THE current rains have exceeded above normal amounts in most parts of the country and this is likely to increase in late November and early December.
The Government is preparing a local version of carbon trade arrangement under which people would earn money for planting trees as a measure to reduce global warming.
The committee of ten African Heads of States and Government on climate change (CAHOSCC) disclosed that Africa has identified priorities on strategies and institutional mechanisms to make firm the continent's common position on climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen summit next month.
Women are the most affected by the effects of climate change, the latest United Nations Population report has revealed.
British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Bob Dewar, yesterday challenged religious leaders and faith-based organisations in the country to raise awareness on the impact of climate change by ensuring that the environment is protected.
Several buildings in Ntungamo District, including the one housing the office of Ms Janet Museveni, the Ruhaama Member of Parliament, were on Tuesday evening flooded after a heavy down pour.
