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Experts reflect on former climate conferences, highlight the financial gaps, and question the continent’s future. While regional efforts are abloom, international financing remains in the gloom. Africa’s sustainability is at the forefront of climate change. The ability to adapt to rising warm and extreme drought is under scrutiny amid insufficient climate finance and long-play adaptative […]
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By Ademola Ajagbe Regional Managing Director, Africa at The Nature Conservancy. Although African delegates had marginal success in placing the continent’s unique needs and circumstances on the agenda of COP27, the ultimate deal to create a ‘loss and damage’ fund is a huge boost to tackle climate change. The proposed dedicated fund will provide a […]
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By Greg Nott COP27, the first African Conference of the Parties, is being hosted in Egypt this year and is particularly important for us as a continent as the event is providing a unique opportunity to shine the spotlight on Africa’s climate vulnerability. In some instances, it feels as though it’s the first time there […]
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By Aimable Twahirwa At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, activists are urging African governments to explore new steps to integrate agriculture into the UN climate agreement. According to the most recent assessment of […]
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Global risk pool MOU builds a framework for collaboration in the areas of advocacy, product development and capacity building… Strengthening the reach and impact of the world’s risk pools is the key objective of a Memorandum of Understanding between African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.), CCRIF SPC (formerly The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) and […]
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Climate change has been a contentious topic since the first United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) – the supreme decision-making forum to jointly address climate change and its impacts – was convened nearly three decades ago. In light of this year’s’ COP27 conference, Sivan Ya’ari, Founder and CEO of Innovation: Africa, discusses how the acceleration […]
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Deloitte Africa has released its latest report titled: Building Climate Resilience: Opportunities and considerations for Africa in a net-zero future, which laysbare the devastating consequences that climate change is having and will continue to have on the African continent but also outlines seven opportunities that the continent has in the drive towards a global net-zero future. The […]
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By Busani Bafana Climate change is worsening injustice globally, and the poor and vulnerable communities are the most affected. It is time the world acted on fulfilling human rights and building a liveable planet, says Yamide Dagnet, director for Climate Justice at Open Society Foundations. “We are so slow to take climate change seriously,” she told […]
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Africa investor (Ai) Group announced six COP27, investor-led initiatives today, during its NDC Investment Summit and Awards, co-hosted with The African Union Development Agency (AUDA), The Continental Business Network (CBN), The NDC Partnership, The African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), The ICC, and the IEA at COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh. The Ai NDC Investment […]
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By Hisham Allam COP 27’s official Youth Envoy, Dr. Omnia El Omrani, realised the impact of climate change in 2017, and Hurricane Irma slammed Miami. As a doctor, she witnessed the influx of emergency patients into the hospital as a result of the hurricane, which piqued her interest in environmental and climate issues. She described it […]
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New Satirical Drama Nya Uriri (Pek Chi Liel) – The Widow’s Burden Sparks Conversations On Widowhood And Inheritance In African Culture