November 02, 2022
Kenya: Land Ownership Model Is Restoring Biodiversity, Empowering Communities in Kenya #AfricaClimateHope
When Mara Siana Conservancy came into operation in 2016, there was a single zebra and a topi (antelope) in the valley just outside the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The… Read more »
November 01, 2022
Africa: COP27 Climate Summit Is an Opportunity to Promote Peace
Peace is precious. The past few months have offered daily reminders of this simple fact. War in Ukraine. Russian and North Korean nuclear threats. Growing tensions over Taiwan.… Read more »
October 31, 2022
Africa: Farm-Kids-Turned-Scientists Give Back On the Climate-Crisis Front Line
Dr Alice Karanja knows from personal experience the tough choices the climate crisis is putting people before in the Global South. Choices such as whether to have a healthy diet or… Read more »
October 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruin Diminishing Forests
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands… Read more »
October 27, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Cannot Be Ignored - COP27 Envoy On Youth
COP 27's official Youth Envoy, Dr Omnia El Omrani, realised the impact of climate change in 2017, and Hurricane Irma slammed Miami. Read more »
October 25, 2022
Kenya: Broken Relationship With Nature Exposed As Global Wildlife Population Plummets
Home to a variety of iconic and rare animal and plant species, freshwater lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and the expansive Indian Ocean coastline, Kenya's place as a biodiversity… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable #AfricaClimateCrisis
In temperate zones lie most of the world's richest countries, which have also been up till now the world's major breadbaskets, in meeting international grain, oilseed and livestock… Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Developing Countries Battle Climate Change, While the Wealthy Make Frozen Pledges #AfricaClimateCrisis
The countdown to the UN Climate Summit COP27, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to November 18, has begun. Read more »
October 21, 2022
Rwanda: Tracking Social Media to Uncover Ivory Trafficking in Rwanda
Every morning, Valerie Mukamazimpaka, a businesswoman selling various food products from Rubavu, a district in Northwestern Rwanda, wakes up early morning to cross "Petite… Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Accelerating Post-Pandemic SDG 6 Achievements On Water & Sanitation
Global progress has been staggeringly inadequate against Sustainable Development Goal 6, "clean water and sanitation for all." Read more »
October 18, 2022
Africa: Are Climate Summits A Waste Of Time?
The 27th annual UN climate summit is taking place in November. Will it be worth all the time and effort? Professor Felix Dodds and Chris Spence--who have attended many of… Read more »
Gabon: Environment Minister Reflects On Conservation Successes, Future Challenges
Over the past few years, Gabon has been successful in its forest conservation efforts. The country has also been able to work hard to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in… Read more »
October 13, 2022
Africa: How Digital Can Drive a Green Recovery
As much of the world was starting to glimpse recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it now finds itself amid a cost-of-living crisis brought on by disruptions in global energy and… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Africa: Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods #AfricaClimateCrisis
Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Read more »
October 05, 2022
Africa: Energy Transition - Is It Time for Africa to Talk Tough?
Thirty-year-old Difasi Amooti Kisembo is one of the demonstrators near the EU delegation offices in Kampala. He and a handful of others have traveled from Uganda's oil and gas-rich… Read more »
Africa: Successful Climate Solutions Require Investment in the Lives of Adolescent Girls
This year commemorates the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child. While the last decade has seen greater attention on the positive development needs of girls,… Read more »
September 29, 2022
Africa: Climate Action Plans Could Help Address Injustice, Inequity in Cities
Equity and justice feature prominently in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th (IPCC) Assessment Report Working Group II, published in 2022. The report focuses on the… Read more »
September 27, 2022
Africa: We Must Ensure That Climate Funding Reaches the Guardians of the Forests
US $270 million may sound like a lot of money, especially for just one year. But it is only a small fraction--less than one percent--of all global funding for climate change… Read more »
September 19, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Crisis Nonacceptance
Many people around the world, especially those among the political far-right, do not accept the climate change crisis. Over the years their thinking, behavior, and policies… Read more »
September 08, 2022
Africa: Climate Collapse Is Not Inevitable but 'Great Leap' Needed
In 1972 the Club of Rome alerted the world to the harm human economic systems were doing to the health of our planet in its seminal, best-selling report, The Limits to Growth. With… Read more »
Africa: Developing Countries Must Grow More Food - Climate Change, Ukraine War a Wake-Up Call
As our planet continues to heat up, extreme weather has affected many of us. From the west coast of North America across Europe, the Middle East and Asia to Pakistan and New… Read more »
September 07, 2022
Zimbabwe: Sand Poachers Fueling Environmental Harm
In Chitungwiza, right next to the highway, 36-year-old Nesbit Gavanga and his five colleagues use shovels as they load trucks with sand. Read more »
August 31, 2022
Africa: Continent Should Trade Its Carbon Credits to Fund Renewable Energy - UNECA
Africa needs to trade in carbon credits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, finance the transition to renewable energy, and boost economic development, the United Nations Economic… Read more »
August 24, 2022
Africa: Thinking Like a Tree - A Tribute to Life Sustainers
When I was a child, a friend asked me: "How would you describe a tree to someone who has never seen one?" I looked at the trees surrounding us and realised it was impossible,… Read more »
August 22, 2022
Africa: 'And of Water We Made Every Living Thing'
This is how the Muslims' Holy Book - the Quran refers to the most precious element of life. Read more »