The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has revealed a chilling forecast for Africa about the inevitability of more frequent and severe climate extremes,… Read More »How Innovative Disaster Risk Financing Can Help Africa Tackle Impacts Of Climate Change
When it comes to combating the climate crisis, Africa has the potential to become a global leader, not just a participant. However, as Joshua Amponsem,… Read More »Empowering African Youth to Lead the Climate Movement: A Vision for Change
Women members of a farming cooperative, Ivory Coast. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Care work forms the often invisible infrastructure of all life.… Read More »Climate Projects Overlook ‘Invisible’ Care Work: Here’s Why It Matters
The United Nations’ 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in… Read More »How COP29 Failed Africa: Unpacking the Climate Financing Shortfall and What’s Next
As COP 29 approaches in Baku, Azerbaijan, the planet itself issues a resounding wake-up call. From the destruction of Hurricanes Milton and Helene in Florida… Read More »Building a Future That Withstands the Storm: Africa’s Infrastructure Challenge in a Changing Climate
In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. Vehicle emissions also… Read More »Driving Growth: What Africa Needs to Expand Its Electric Vehicle Sector
As the annual UN climate conference, Cop29, draws to a close, negotiators, civil society observers and activists are staying up late, poring over draft texts… Read More »COP29: Indigenous Communities Overlooked in Global Carbon Market Regulation Talks
Negotiations at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are entering their second week after things… Read More »COP29: Achieving Net Zero Requires Returning Carbon to the Ground
Climate change and biodiversity policies have largely evolved in isolation, even though the two crises are deeply intertwined. They have their own UN summits, with… Read More »The Interwoven Crises of Climate and Biodiversity: Avoiding a Harmful Divide
Since the Industrial Revolution, country after country has turned to fossil fuels to power their transport and industry. Now the bill is coming due. Huge… Read More »Developing Nations Contribute Least to Climate Change but Suffer Most: Will COP29 Address This Injustice?”