July 23
Southern Africa: Southern African Drought - Extreme Hardship, Hopefully Only in the Short Term
Heading into the traditional dry period of winter in southern Africa, there was significant consternation due to the drastically below average rainfall the region has been… Read more »
July 16
Tanzania: How Climate-Smart Strategies Revitalized Tanzania's Livestock Sector
In a quest for survival, farmers and pastoralists living in Oldonyo Sambu, Tanzania's northern Maasai Steppe, used to fight over every drop of water. However, 12 villages have now… Read more »
July 05
Kenya: Kenya's Cash-Strapped, Ambitious Climate Change Goals
Kenya's need for climate finance is great--the country has been battered by climate change-related disasters for years--but as this analysis shows, the arrangements remain opaque,… Read more »
June 20
Africa: Peoples' Climate Vote Shows Global Support for Stronger Climate Action
The global public opinion research on climate change reveals that 80 percent, or four out of five, of people globally want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the… Read more »
Africa: Unveiling the 'Dark Matter' of Food, Diets and Biodiversity
By Maya Rajasekharan and Selena Ahmed Read more »
June 21
Malawi: The World Bank Must Double Its Fund for the Poorest Nations Like Mine to Tackle Hunger Crisis
After El Niño-induced floods and devastating drought, roughly two in five people in Malawi - a country of some 20 million people - are now facing the looming prospect of… Read more »
June 19
Nigeria: Climate Change, Ethnicity and Neglect Fuel Violence in Nigeria's Kaduna State
Lami Kwasu, a farmer in the village of Kafanchan in Kaduna State, north-central Nigeria, was at home one evening in October 2020 when the sound of sporadic gunshots filled the air. Read more »
June 13
Africa: African Activists Call On the West to Finance Climate Action
As the technical session of the global climate negotiations enters the final stretch in Bonn, Germany, climate activists from Africa have expressed fears that negotiators from the… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Turning the Tide - Health Community Turns to UNFCC for Inclusivity
There is a rapid realization that climate change is impacting health, which is why the recently adopted World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Resolution is… Read more »
June 04
Southern Africa: Bringing Drought and Floods, El Niño Hits the Most Fragile in Southern Africa
Kaponde Likando does not know how his family will survive until the next farming season. "We are not going to have anything (to harvest)," said the 60-year-old from Chingobe… Read more »
June 03
Kenya: Biodiversity Meetings in Nairobi End, All Eyes Are Now On COP16
Regions struggling to revise and update their National Biodiversity Plans aligning them with the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15, will now be given the technical and… Read more »
May 30
Seychelles: Plastic Soup, Plastic Islands - How Small Island Developing States Can End Plastic Pollution
Scattered over the vast area of our oceans, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are often pictured as blue, serene and beautiful paradises. However, we are risk losing the beauty… Read more »
May 29
Africa: To Tackle Climate Crisis, the World Bank Must Stop Financing Industrial Livestock
Last week, the World Bank Group released a new report that highlights the urgent need to drastically reduce GHG emissions to address the climate crisis and calls on countries to… Read more »
May 23
Africa: Lessons From Youth-Focused 'Future Action Festival' Ahead of UN Summit of the Future
The world has crossed the halfway point to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era amid multiple, unprecedented, and significantly destructive global shocks. Two of… Read more »
May 27
Africa: Explainer - Understanding Carbon Trading and Its Rationale
In this explainer, IPS takes a look at carbon emissions trading, which allows an entity, unable to reduce carbon emissions to the required limits, to pay someone who is not only… Read more »
Malawi: Malawi Moves to Regulate Carbon Trading Amid Transparency Concerns in Global Market
Malawi is increasingly pitching carbon trading as a source of revenue it needs to bolster the economy, which is suffering from foreign exchange shortages caused by a large trade… Read more »
May 17
Zimbabwe: Rising Temperatures Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zimbabwe
Rising temperatures are being blamed for an increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Zimbabwe as animals such as snakes leave their natural habitat earlier than usual. Read more »
May 14
Africa: SBSTTA and SBI - Biodiversity Meetings Crucial for the Global South Begin
More than 1,400 delegates are present at two crucial meetings, where the topic of preserving the planet's ongoing biodiversity for the benefit of humanity is under discussion.… Read more »
May 15
Africa: Ocean Action On Global Agenda As Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen
The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ever live on Earth and billions of the tiniest, the top 100 meters of the open oceans host the… Read more »
May 14
Africa: Bringing the World's Food Production in Line With Global Climate Goals
Food systems--how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat--are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And those gases are… Read more »
May 08
Zambia: Beyond the Fields - Unraveling Zambia's Drought Crisis and the Urgent Call for Climate-Health Solutions
For most families in Zambia, April is traditionally a month of plenty--it is typically the beginning of a harvest season for various food and cash crops. Both fresh and dried… Read more »
April 22
Africa: 'Toasting the World's Most Natural Talent' - UN Museum Campaign Recognizes Nature's Contributions to Music
Spearheaded by the Museum for the United Nations, a new campaign brings together music and ecology to spark people's interest and engagement in environmental conservation through… Read more »
April 24
Africa: Rich Nation Hypocrisy Accelerating Global Heating
Rich nations' climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both… Read more »
April 12
Africa: The Climate Alarm Is Ringing - It's Time to Stop Silencing It
The heat records keep tumbling - 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. Extreme weather events keep mounting up. And yet the voices most strongly calling for action to… Read more »
Africa: Food Security and Food Safety in Africa Must Go Hand in Hand
Monica Musonda, CEO, Java Foods, and Board Member, Partners in Food Solutions (PFS) Read more »