Climate Change Threatens Heritage Sites
As the effects of climate change continue to cause significant damage across the globe, recent research led by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) revealed that heritage sites of “outstanding and universal value” located along the African coast are at threat of rising sea levels. The global team of […]
With Funds Short, Africans Weigh Green Energy Switch And Fossil Fuel Cash
As crucial U.N. climate change negotiations get underway in Glasgow Sunday, seeking steep global emissions cuts to protect people and nature, many African nations – relatively tiny contributors to the problem – find themselves in an unusual position. Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s lowest energy access rates and about 600 million people – half the […]
UK Companies Seen Missing Sustainability Targets Due To COVID-19
About two thirds of British companies expect to miss at least one of their sustainability targets as the coronavirus pandemic forces many to focus on staying afloat, a survey of 500 senior business leaders showed on Friday. While seven in 10 said their firms had put climate or sustainability initiatives on hold, many thought a […]
U.N. Says Global Goals To Protect Nature Need Women To Succeed
Women – who gather much of the world’s wood and water, and carry out a large share of its farming – have too little say in how land is used, one key reason countries are failing to halt rapid losses of nature, environmental officials said on Tuesday. Giving women a bigger voice in decision-making […]
Up In Smoke : Wild Fire In Argentina
As Argentina suffers through one of its worst droughts in decades, fires in the Paraná Delta – the country’s largest wetland – are billowing smoke as far away as Buenos Aires, residents said. The fires, on land normally used for grazing, appear to have been sparked by ranchers burning pastures to clear them, a traditional […]
Foreign Ministers Flag Climate Change As Major Spark For Conflicts
Climate change impacts – including growing food and water scarcity – are becoming increasingly important drivers of conflict and unrest around the world, and security planners need to make them a priority now, foreign ministers warned this week. Addressing them could mean the U.N. Security Council asking for regular reports on threats from climate change […]
Poor Women Take The Strain As Climate Change Pushes Men To Leave Home
As climate change drives men in Asia and Africa to abandon their farms and search for jobs further afield, women back home are getting little help to cope with harsher working conditions, putting their wellbeing at risk, researchers said on Monday. A report from Britain’s University of East Anglia (UEA) said the burden on women […]
African Countries Get New Tool To Predict Climate-Related Disasters
A new weather forecasting system in Africa allows meteorologists to track approaching storms in real-time, potentially saving lives from climate-related disasters, scientists said on Monday. The technology is already used in developed countries but was not available until recently in most of sub-Saharan Africa, according to scientists behind the project at the University of Leeds. […]
UN Launches COVID-19 Plan That Could ‘Defeat the Virus And Build A Better World’
The UN chief launched on Tuesday a new plan to counter the potentially devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling on everyone to “act together to lessen the blow to people”. “The new coronavirus disease is attacking societies at their core, claiming lives and people’s livelihoods”, said Secretary-General António Guterres, pointing out that the potential longer-term effects on […]
Worsening Drought Dries Up Housing For Rural Namibians
When Pedro Dhila left his homestead in northern Namibia one year ago to seek greener pastures in the country’s capital, he meant it both literally and figuratively. Dhila hoped Windhoek would hold better opportunities after worsening drought in the Omusati region decimated his crops and nearly 30 of his cows. But once he arrived in […]
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