September 13, 2023
Africa: The Africa Climate Summit - Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism
In the wake of the recent Africa Climate Summit, which convened in Nairobi from September 4-6, 2023, the world's attention was drawn to the pressing challenges facing the African… Read more »
September 08, 2023
Africa: New Report Shows Successful Education Funding Model for Children Affected By Crises
In a world set on fire by climate change and brutal conflict, millions of children in emergencies and protracted crises need educational support. Children in 48 out of 49 African… Read more »
September 06, 2023
Africa: African Startups Mull Home-Grown Solutions to Combat Climate Change
A group of young African startups made their presence known at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, hoping to play a big role in promoting home-grown climate-oriented… Read more »
East Africa: Hunger in East Africa Is a True Testament to Climate Injustice
By Fati N'Zi-Hassane and Amitabh Behar Read more »
September 05, 2023
Lesotho: NDB Spotlight - the Lesotho Highlands Water Project - Who Benefits?
By Marianne Buenaventura Goldman and Reitumetse Nkoti Mabula Read more »
Africa: Toothless Global Financial Architecture Fuelling Africa's Climate Crisis
Africa needs approximately USD 579.2 billion in adaptation finance over the period 2020 to 2030, and yet the current adaptation flows are five to 10 times below estimated needs. Read more »
Africa: Africa's Potential - Leading Food System Transformation and Climate Resilience
By Angela Churie Kallhauge, Ishmael Sunga and Serah Makka Read more »
September 04, 2023
Zimbabwe: Invasive Species, a Fast-Riding Horsemen Galloping the Biodiversity Apocalypse
Mango farmer Eufria Nyadome used to earn USD 60 from selling a 20-litre bucket of fresh mangoes and now can barely make USD 20 even though her mango trees are giving a good yield.… Read more »
Africa: 'I Am Because You Are' - Climate Justice Through the Spirit of Ubuntu
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim argues that Innovative global development finance ecosystems are needed to unlock equitable international financing flows while preserving the fiscal… Read more »
September 01, 2023
Africa: Africa Climate Summit - a Critical Opportunity for Collective Action On Climate Change
As an African, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. I have met communities displaced by floods in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. I have spoken to… Read more »
August 16, 2023
Africa: World Bank Climate Finance Plan Little Help, Unfair
The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is likely to be a… Read more »
Africa: Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope
Kenya's fight for food security may have just gone 'Old School' as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way… Read more »
August 15, 2023
Africa: A Common African Approach to Environmental Challenges, Now & for the Future
There has never been a time in human history when collaboration between nations was more sorely needed than now, and there is no place that would benefit more from it than in… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Africa: Revisiting the Water-Energy Nexus for a Changing Climate #AfricaClimateHope
By Philippe Benoit and Anne-Sophie Corbeau Read more »
August 04, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families #AfricaClimateHope
When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope… Read more »
August 02, 2023
Africa: Clock Is Ticking for Food Security in Africa, Says New IITA Head
"My key message is really simple," says Dr Simeon Ehui, the newly-appointed director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, which works with partners… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy #AfricaClimateCrisis
Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity's well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of… Read more »
July 28, 2023
Africa: The Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived - UN Secretary-General #AfricaClimateCrisis
"Humanity is in the hot seat today," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists as the world confronted official data confirming that July 2023 is… Read more »
July 20, 2023
Africa: New AI Weather Forecasting Model Aims to Boost Africa's Response to Climate Change
Scientists have recently unveiled a first-ever weather forecasting model using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions to help vulnerable African countries… Read more »
July 19, 2023
Africa: Climate Justice - Is Litigation a Good Way Forward?
By Kwan Soo-Chen and David McCoy Read more »
July 12, 2023
Africa: Can Carbon Trading Stop Global Heating?
By Sarah Razak and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Read more »
July 10, 2023
East Africa: Grey Market Charcoal East Africa - Why Prohibitionist Interventions Are Failing
At Kampala's Nakawa market, Lovisa Nabisubi scoops charcoal from a bag and packs it into tins ready for customers. Her bare hands, feet, and clothes are stained black from hours of… Read more »
July 06, 2023
Africa: The Grand Narrative of Private Finance - Over-Reliance On Attracting Investment Is Undermining Change At World Bank
By Bhumika Muchhala and María José Romero Read more »
July 04, 2023
Africa: Transformative Change of Our Relationship With Nature - Key to Saving Global Biodiversity
The writers are Co-Chairs of the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Read more »
Africa: Climate Change and Development
There is little doubt that human activity is accelerating climate change. Our activities are causing global warming and potentially disastrous climate change. Read more »