Women are the most affected by the effects of climate change, the latest United Nations Population report has revealed.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and other African leaders yesterday agreed to ask for compensation from the rich industrialised nations during the climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen at the end of the year.
A familiar story of looming famine is filtering out of East Africa.
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.
As the world marked the International Day on Climate Action on October 24, the issue of climate change has assumed a larger dimension. With the Climate Summit coming up in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the International Conference on Carbon Credit Opportunities in Abuja on November 9-11, Abimbola Akosile examines a scenario, which has a lot of potential for Nigeria
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its "State of the World Population 2009" report on the 18th of November. It chose to take up a politically delicate topic, the relationship between climate change, population stabilisation and the importance of gender.
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.
"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.
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.
All international agreements are moulded around the fine diplomatic art of compromise. The upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen are no different; compromises will have to be made by all parties in one form or another. But the real question we need to ask is whether these compromises will inadvertently trigger chain reactions that stand to damage the environment rather than protect it.
East African states have pleaded for financial support from donors to mitigate effects of climate change in the region.
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.
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.
The Technical Council of Mozambique's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), estimates that about 260,000 people may suffer from food insecurity in various parts of the country up until the next harvest, in March/April 2010, reports Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
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.
