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Africa: Going Green Is Not a Luxury for Africa
Project Syndicate, 10 September 2019
Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands, and displacing even more. In Mozambique, as much as half of all annual… Read more »
Going Green Is A Must for Africa's Economic Prosperity
How can Africa realize economic prosperity without contributing further to climate change? The solution lies in a kind of Green New Deal - a comprehensive strategy for achieving sustainable growth, including through coordinated, large-scale investment in renewable-energy deployment, write Carlos Lopes, a former head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa who is now a professor at the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town
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Ghana: Young Africans Create Green Businesses
Africa Renewal, 6 September 2019
The youth are the driving force for action on climate and the environment. Read more »
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Africa: Damage to Land Feeds Migration and Conflict - UN Official
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 6 September 2019
Vast swathes of land, from Africa to the Middle East, are being left useless by climate shifts and human pressures such as deforestation, mining and farming, threatening to hike… Read more »
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Africa: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Action On Climate Adaptation
Oxfam, 10 September 2019
Following the publication of a major new report by the Global Commission on Adaptation today, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam and a member of the Commission said: Read more »
InFocus
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In the Zimbabwean village of Mashaba, a solar grid provides cheap, clean power to run irrigation pumps that keep the community's wheat, maize and vegetable fields a sea of green. ... Read more »
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Abundant downpours during the rainy season bring deadly floods to Freetown every year - but officials are increasingly worried about another trend: diminishing water reserves. Read more »
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The United Nations reports that nearly two months of heavy rains and flooding in Sudan have wiped out livelihoods, rendered tens of thousands of people homeless and created a hu Read more »
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The massive effort is part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant more than 4 billion trees between May and October, or 40 trees per person. Read more »
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Dam levels are sitting at 64.1% compared to 56.3% in 2018 and 27.2% in 2017, mayoral committee member for water and waste services for the City of Cape Town, Xanthea Limberg has ... Read more »
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Sub-Saharan Africa's farming sector has grown faster than anywhere else in the world with a 4.6 percent agriculture GDP growth rate from 2000 to 2018. But about 20 percent of ... Read more »
