November 15
Central Africa: MSF Again Calls for Urgent Water and Sanitation Response in North Kivu Displacement Camps
MSF
After several months, insanitary conditions and severe, life-threatening shortages of clean water continue to reach critical levels in various informal camps for displaced people… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Demands - Continent's COP29 Irreducible Minimums Amid Release of First Draft Text
IPS
As expected, climate finance has taken center stage in Baku COP29 in a bid to renew the global focus on finance as a means to transform climate ambitions into tangible, sustainable… Read more »
Africa: From the Biodiversity COP16 to the Climate COP29 - Building Equitable Accountability, Alignment, and Adequacy On Finance
IPS
The United States just went through its most consequential election. While the outcome raises questions about what the re-election of Trump means for U.S. engagement in global… Read more »
Africa: Afreximbank Pushes for Accelerated Climate Financing At COP29
Business Day Africa
Afreximbank has pledged to enhance its role in promoting a balanced energy transition in Africa, aiming to address the continent's development priorities and unlock economic… Read more »
Uganda: Uganda to Benefit From UK's Shs40bn Satellite Funding for Climate Monitoring
Nile Post
The satellite instruments will help Uganda monitor emissions such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen dioxide, enabling better-informed climate policies and targeted… Read more »
Uganda: Uganda Launches Online Platform to Boost Local Marine Insurance
Independent (Kampala)
Uganda's insurance regulator, Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda (IRA), in partnership with the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), has launched an integrated online platform… Read more »
South Africa: South African Activists Represent Local Communities at COP29, Addressing Climate Challenges Head-On
Earthlife
South African grassroots environmental justice activists from Limpopo, Gauteng, and Eastern Cape have landed at COP29! Read more »
Rwanda: Are Countries On Track With Their National Climate Goals?
New Times
Existing national climate goals, commonly known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), are 'not nearly ambitious enough' to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees… Read more »
Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Plan to Fix $6bn Climate Finance Gap
New Times
Rwanda is exploring innovative approaches to mobilise $6.2 billion climate finance, from 2024 to 2030, as part of implementing the newly adopted Climate and Nature Finance Strategy… Read more »
Liberia: EPA Official Stresses Climate and Security Link in National Climate Plans
Liberian Investigator
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia is advocating for the inclusion of climate change and security considerations in the country's Nationally Determined… Read more »
November 14
Africa: 3 Innovative Ways to Help Countries Hit By Climate Disasters, Beyond a Loss and Damage Fund [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
These days, it's hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change - Women's Role in the Economy Is Key to a Just Transition [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The realities of climate change are hitting home for many people living in the global south. Food security, water access and health have been jeopardised by the increased… Read more »
Africa: EU Parliament 'Takes a Chainsaw to Anti-Deforestation Law' [press release]
Global Witness
The European Parliament today backed a 12-month delay for the EU's landmark anti-deforestation law, which would see new rules to prevent imports and exports of commodities grown on… Read more »
Nigeria: How to Hold Multinational Companies in Nigeria Accountable for Polluting Niger Delta
allAfrica
allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo attended the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), held at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, which is the largest… Read more »
Africa: COP29 - 'You Have Every Right to Be Angry' Guterres Tells Youth Advocates Frustrated Over Lack of Climate Action
UN News
As negotiations over how to tackle climate change head into their fifth day in Baku, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed solidarity with young climate… Read more »
Somalia: SoDMA Head Calls for Action On La Niña Effects in Somalia At COP29
Shabelle
At the heart of the COP29 climate summit, Mohamud Moalim, the Commissioner of Somalia's Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), took to the stage to deliver a stark warning about the… Read more »
Uganda: UN Taskforce Report Warns of Policy Gaps Endangering 1.5°c Climate Target
Nile Post
The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities (HLEG) has issued a sharp warning to global policymakers, stressing that… Read more »
Africa: COP29 - Experts Decry Africa's Climate Finance Shortfalls
Premium Times
During the opening plenary on Monday, the COP29 organisers hinted that the negotiating priority at the conference is to achieve a new climate finance goal. Read more »
Africa: Greenpeace Africa Calls for Real Climate Solutions Over Dubious Carbon Markets Scheme
Greenpeace
As COP29 discussions continue in Baku, Greenpeace Africa strongly opposes the push for unreliable market-based mechanisms as a solution to the climate crisis, warning that they… Read more »
Kenya: CS Duale Praises Whitman for Fostering Kenya-U.S. Ties
Capital FM
Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has praised former United States Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman for fostering Kenya -US Bilateral relations… Read more »
Africa: UNHCR Amplifies Voices of Displaced On Frontlines of Climate Change
UN News
UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday launched the Refugees for Climate Action initiative in a bid to mobilise the world's forcibly displaced to join the fight against global… Read more »
Africa: Fudged Figures, Gas, and Debt - Digging Into MDBs' 'Climate Finance' [analysis]
African Arguments
Half of all Multilateral Development Banks' climate finance goes to Europe. Just 4% is grants. We don't just need more but better climate finance. Read more »
Africa: COP29 - African Countries Must Wake Up From 'Distributed Carbon Emission Guilt' to People-Centered Climate Action
IPS
Global warming is no longer just an issue for the environment but a crisis of life itself. Yet, African governments' climate action strategies, specifically those submitted under… Read more »
Seychelles: Seychelles Starts Review of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
Seychelles News Agency
Seychelles has officially begun its review of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) and targets regarding biodiversity through a first stakeholder meeting on… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Activists Demand Trillions in Climate Finance, Urging Developed Nations to Repay 'Climate Debt' to the Global South
263Chat
Global climate activists intensified their demands at COP29 in Baku, calling for developed countries to take accountability for climate change impacts that continue to devastate… Read more »
