December 21, 2022
Africa: Covid Hit Companies Hard. Why Some Kept Their Sustainability Commitments, and Others Didn't
Covid-19 has had profound implications for the "role of business in society". One of them is the pandemic's effect on companies' sustainability strategies. These are efforts to… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Can Be Beaten - Why Some Scientists Are Hopeful #AfricaClimateHope
Can our planet recover from climate change? Commissioning Editor, Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, asked scientists to share the reasons they believe there is hope. Read more »
December 10, 2022
Africa: Climate Crisis in Africa Exposes Real Cause of Hunger
In the waning hours of the year's biggest climate change conference - COP27 - we learned of a deal to create a loss and damage fund. This is essentially a source of finance to… Read more »
December 08, 2022
South Africa: Climate Change Is Not What South Africans See As Their Main Problem - a Survey Breaks It Down
Climate change is a major threat to food production, and is displacing people and increasing the risks to health globally. Addressing climate change requires vast resources,… Read more »
November 29, 2022
South Africa: White Butterflies Are Filling Johannesburg's Skies Earlier Than Usual. Climate Change Is to Blame
Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa's Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: All Signs Point to Blowing Past the 1.5 Degrees Global Warming Limit - Here's What We Can Still Do #AfricaClimateCrisis
The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level many scientists consider a dangerous threshold. Realistically,… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Africa: COP27 Key Outcomes - Progress On Compensation for Developing Countries, but More Needed On Climate Justice and Equity
There were high expectations for COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read more »
Africa: COP27's 'Loss and Damage' Fund for Developing Countries Could Be a Breakthrough - or Another Empty Climate Promise #AfricaClimateCrisis
Developing nations were justifiably jubilant at the close of COP27 as negotiators from wealthy countries around the world agreed for the first time to establish a dedicated "loss… Read more »
Africa: Less Burping, More Meat and Milk - How Livestock Farmers Can Help Tackle the Climate Crisis #AfricaClimateHope
Africa's livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Africa: African Mountains Are Feeling the Heat of Climate Change
Mountains are special places. They have distinctive climates that are generally cooler and wetter than surrounding lowlands, and they host plants, animals and landscapes that are… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: Africa Has Vast Gas Reserves - Here's How to Stop Them Adding to Climate Change
The question of whether Africa should be allowed to exploit its gas reserves, estimated at more than 17.56 trillion cubic meters (620 trillion cubic feet) in 2021, has been much… Read more »
Africa: Global Climate Finance Leaves Out Cities - Fixing It Is Critical to Battling Climate Change
Under the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016, countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and work together to adapt to the effects of climate change. To… Read more »
November 14, 2022
South Africa: Mangrove Forests Won't Be Able to Spread Further in South Africa, So Protecting Them Is Crucial #AfricaClimateCrisis
Mangrove forests are a common sight in some tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world like Indonesia, Florida in the US, parts of Brazil and Australia. They can also be found on… Read more »
November 11, 2022
Africa: How the Energy Crisis Is Pressuring Countries' Climate Plans
Russia's war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this week's meetings of world leaders at the G-20 summit in Bali and the United Nations climate change conference in Egypt. Read more »
Africa: How the Energy Crisis Is Pressuring Countries At the UN Climate Summit - While Some Race to Renewables, Others See Natural Gas Wealth, but It May Be Short-Lived #AfricaClimateCrisis
Russia's war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year's United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs… Read more »
November 13, 2022
Egypt: COP27 Shines Light On Civil Liberties in Egypt, but It'll Take Work to Achieve Real Freedom
The ability to speak freely in Egypt is currently very constrained. Individuals, groups and NGOs face significant barriers to participation in the political process. And the same… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change and Wildlife - 3 Studies That Reveal the Devastating Toll On Africa's Animals
Climate change has produced a number of threats to wildlife. Over time, changing rainfall patterns have transformed habitats and forced animals to move. Increasing temperatures are… Read more »
November 10, 2022
Togo: Togo's New Climate Policies Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Air Quality - Here's How
Like many African cities, Lomé, the capital of Togo, has a pollution problem. Read more »
Africa: Climate Finance for Africa - the Key Challenges and What Needs to Be Done About Them
Climate change is a significant threat to development across Africa. Important sectors, such as agriculture, health and water will feel a considerable adverse impact from… Read more »
November 09, 2022
West Africa: Climate Change - West Africa's Oceans At Risk Because of a Lack of Monitoring
The West African Canary Current extends along the north-west African coast, from the northern Atlantic coast of Morocco to Guinea-Bissau. It's a hotspot for changes in the oceans… Read more »
November 08, 2022
West Africa: Climate Change Means Farmers in West Africa Need More Ways to Combat Pests
The link between climate change and the spread of crop pests has been established by research and evidence. Read more »
November 10, 2022
South Africa: Climate Change Affects Mosquito Behaviour. This May Make It Harder to End Malaria in South Africa
Changes in climatic factors - such as higher temperatures and increased rainfall - affect the developmental, behavioural and distribution patterns of insects like mosquitoes. These… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Is Causing Endangered African Wild Dogs to Give Birth Later - Threatening the Survival of the Pack
Wildlife are responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of… Read more »
November 06, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Which Countries Will Push to End Fossil Fuel Production? And Which Won't?
Fossil fuels have provided a crucial source of energy over the past 200 years. But they also account for 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, enable massive… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: Who Is Responsible When Climate Change Harms the World's Poorest Countries?
You may be hearing the phrase "loss and damage" in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. Read more »