The Elephant
A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Palette to paycheck: the Lagos gallery helping children make a living from their art
2024-03-13 in The GuardianThe Children’s Art Gallery supports young Nigerian artists from low-income families, helping them sell their work around the world and build a better life
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children | Nigeria | Africa
Diplomats fear growing power of Iranian factions that want nuclear weapons
2024-03-10 in The GuardianWarnings that war in Gaza and Iran’s lack of cooperation on its nuclear programme are strengthening hand of hardliners
Tagged under: Israel | Iran | Nuclear Power | Middle East | Africa
Food Supplies Threatened in Southern Africa After Driest February on Record - Bloomberg
2024-03-08 in BloombergZambia has declared protracted dry spell a national disaster as price of staple food surges.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Drought | Agriculture | Zimbabwe | Africa | Economics
Senator Omtatah to take the Uyombo nuclear power plant war international
2024-03-05 in the-star.co.keEnvironmentalists say geothermal not exploited and as they stopped the Lamu coal-fired plant, they will stop this one.
Tagged under: Kenya | Nuclear Power | Africa
Reforestation programs could threaten vast area of tropical grasslands
2024-02-29 (or before) in Science DailyNew research reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa. A new study reveals that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives, such as the AFR100 initiative (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), due to inappropriate restoration in the form of tree-planting.
Tagged under: Carbon Offsetting | Trees | Africa
Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension
2024-02-29 (or before) in British Ecological Society JournalsAbstract Land degradation is a global problem impacting biodiversity and livelihoods, with profound effects on resource-based livelihoods. As such, it impedes progress towards sustainable developme...
Tagged under: Climate Justice | Africa
AFR100
2024-02-29 (or before) by in AFR100A country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030.
Tagged under: Africa
Climate change: alarming Africa-wide report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, 50 million without water
2024-02-28 by in The ConversationA new study reveals that from 2050, Africa will suffer from food and water scarcity, and a massive loss of jobs in agriculture, unless climate change mitigation measures are put in place now.
Tagged under: Climate Change Mitigation | Africa
Shell must clean up pollution before it leaves Niger delta, report says
2024-02-28 in The GuardianFirm told it must take responsibility for toxic legacy of pollution and safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure
How Scotland is working with African countries on a massive renewable energy boom – Dr Richard Dixon
2024-02-28 in The ScotsmanRenewable energy projects have benefits for rural electrification, energy security, job creation and even health – as well as the fight against climate change
Tagged under: Health | Renewable Energy | Africa
Conflation of reforestation with restoration is widespread | Science
2024-02-16 in Science | AAASAcross Africa, vast areas of nonforest are threatened by inappropriate restoration in the form of tree planting
Tagged under: Africa
Ill-judged tree planting in Africa threatens ecosystems, scientists warn
2024-02-15 in The GuardianResearch reveals area size of France is under threat by restoration projects taking place in unsuitable landscapes
Tagged under: Wildlife | Trees | Africa
22: Religious groups as environmental activists
2024-02-12 (or before) in Elgaronline from Edward Elgar PublishingWe first recall counterexamples where religion is used to exclude poor people from access to nature, e.g. high-caste Hindus consider rivers as sacred and simultaneously exclude Dalits from water use. We also recall the strong links between European Christianity and coloniality. Moreover, religion does not always mean organised religions with scriptures and clergy. In human societies, the difference between natural entities and anthropomorphic or zoomorphic religious beings is not clear cut. Snowed mountain tops are worshipped as Apus in the Andes. In India many Indigenous villages conserve sacred groves. In this thematic chapter...
Tagged under: Rivers | Mexico | Religion | Indonesia | Africa | Activism
Hotter weather and a recurring drought in store for Cape Town soon, experts warn
2024-01-21 in IOL | News that Connects South AfricansIf you think the 35ºC heat on Friday was hot, then it is likely you will be hopping from the frying pan into the fire soon, if the warnings of climate change experts are anything to go by.
Tagged under: Drought | South Africa | Africa
Women, girls suffer the most from climate displacement
2024-01-21 in Nation AfricaForced to leave their homes behind, this vulnerable population is bearing the biggest brunt of global warming
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Africa
Scientists discover southern Africa's temps will rise past rhinos' tolerance
2024-01-17 in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologySouthern Africa contains the vast majority of the world's remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%, respectively). The region's climate is changing rapidly as a result global warming. Traditional conservation efforts aimed at protecting rhinos have focused on poaching, but until now, there has been no analysis of the impact that climate change may have on the animals.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Africa
More than 160 elephants die in Zimbabwe, with many more at risk
2024-01-17 in The GuardianDrought in Hwange national park was the cause of most of the deaths, and wildlife experts fear the climate crisis could make such events look normal
Tagged under: Wildlife | Drought | Zimbabwe | Africa
What Happens When Africa's Largest Lake Runs Out of Fish?
2024-01-14 (or before) in National GeographicThe fishermen who rely on Lake Victoria's once-abundant perch population for their livelihood know they are living on borrowed time.
Tagged under: Fishing | Famine | Africa | Fish
Air pollution kills 780,000 people in Africa each year
2024-01-14 (or before) in Chemical and Engineering NewsModeling study from NASA suggests Saharan dust storms account for much of the burden
Tagged under: Africa
Water Scarcity in Africa: Everything You Need to Know
2024-01-14 (or before) in Global CitizenThe water crisis across Africa is only getting worse due to climate change. By 2025, hundreds of millions of people will experience water scarcity.
Tagged under: Africa | Water Resources
Awash with fossil fuel money, African football is sowing the seeds of its own destruction | David Goldblatt
2024-01-07 in The GuardianAs Afcon kicks off under an oil firm’s banner, it is a tragic irony that the climate crisis is making the game ever more unsafe to play outdoors
Tagged under: Africa | Fossil Fuels
African vultures declining at a critical rate | University of St Andrews news
2024-01-07 (or before) in University of St Andrews NewsClimate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure
2024-01-06 in The GuardianA game that teaches people how to spot climate misinformation is now being rolled out – with the same cantankerous central character – to combat vaccine hesitancy in the developing world
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation | Health | Africa
Birds of prey in Africa experiencing population collapse, study finds
2024-01-04 in The GuardianSeveral species have vanished across swathes of the continent – and scientists say their disappearance holds unknown risks for humans
Tagged under: Collapse | Birds | Africa | Wildlife
African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas - Nature Ecology & Evolution
2024-01-04 in NatureA compilation of survey data from pre- and post-2000 for 42 raptor species across parts of West, Central, East and southern Africa shows 88% of species in population decline and reveals trends across regions, protected areas and species size.
Tagged under: Collapse | Africa
‘They attacked us. They displaced us’: grieving South Sudanese confront Swedish oil giant over their days of slaughter
2023-12-31 in The GuardianA historic trial, which will call on 61 witnesses worldwide, is expected to set a precedent for global corporations in foreign jurisdictions
Tagged under: Middle East | Africa
World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say
2023-12-29 in The GuardianDisastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America
Tagged under: COP28 | Wildfires | Africa
Rice Hits Fresh 15-Year High as Food Security Fears Fuel Demand - Bloomberg
2023-12-27 in BloombergRice prices surged to a fresh 15-year high, fueled by strong demand and lingering supply concerns.
Tagged under: Africa
A naturalist finds hope despite climate change in an era he calls 'The End of Eden'
2023-12-23 in NPRSouth African naturalist Adam Welz has traveled the world, documenting the profound impact of climate change on wild species. He says his research has convinced him despair isn't the answer.
Tagged under: Africa
Compounding natural hazards and high vulnerability led to severe impacts from Horn of Africa flooding exacerbated by climate change and Indian Ocean Dipole – World Weather Attribution
2023-12-07 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change Impacts | Africa
Leaks reveal how McKinsey drives African climate agenda
2023-11-27 by in Climate Home NewsWhistleblowers caution about the increasing role of McKinsey in the climate agenda, promoting carbon markets and energy transition plans
Tagged under: Net Zero | Energy | Carbon Pricing | Africa
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
2023-11-27 in The GuardianClimate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand
Tagged under: COP28 | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Africa
‘The river took it all’: Somalis wait for waters to recede as floods kill dozens
2023-11-22 in The GuardianBilan reporters describe devastation across Somalia as ‘once-in-a-century’ floods hit a country reeling from a six-year drought
Tagged under: Drought | Rivers | Middle East | Africa
Corruption and Rights Abuses Are Flourishing in Lithium Mining Across Africa, a New Report Finds - Inside Climate News
2023-11-15 by in Inside Climate NewsOn a Sunday afternoon in March 2023, Darlington Vito was shot in the head outside an industrial lithium mine in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. A subsistence miner, he had been searching for chunks of ore in a rubble pile when a security guard at the mine site fired his weapon without warning, family members and local […]
Tagged under: Colonialism | Zimbabwe | Africa | Lithium
Centre of deadly bird flu outbreaks shifts from Asia to Europe and Africa
2023-10-19 in The GuardianIncrease of virus in wild birds is driving evolution and spread of new strains, researchers found
Tagged under: Wildlife | Africa
Decision near on $4bn Uganda pipeline, Standard Bank says
2023-10-18 by in Energy VoiceA controversial $4 billion crude oil pipeline to link Uganda and Tanzania has overcome a key hurdle that delayed a final decision, according to Standard
Tagged under: Africa
South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?
2023-10-17 in MongabayCAPE TOWN — The endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) could be extinct in the wild in just over a decade. To protect the bird’s food supply and slow its population collapse, South Africa is throwing a protective no-fishing cordon around its main breeding colonies. But the devil is in the details, and conservationists say time […]
Tagged under: Fish | Collapse | Africa
Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk
2023-10-06 in MongabayThis report was produced with the support of the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. MOKOLO, Cameroon — The sun is already beating down this morning, a Saturday in July, at Mansour-Sabongari village. Young locals sit chatting in the shade of a forest plantation developed by the Reforestation 1400 project. The project […]
Weather tracker: South Africa hit by storms and unseasonably low temperatures
2023-09-25 in The GuardianTemperatures 10-15C below norm forecast in South Africa while risk of wildfires rises in Australia after unusual spring heatwaves
Tagged under: South Africa | Africa | Heatwaves | Wildfires
UN: 700 Million People Don't Know When — Or If — They Will Eat Again
2023-09-25 (or before) by in VOA - Voice of America English NewsNeed is rising as humanitarian funding is drying up, UN food chief says
Tagged under: Africa | Famine | Health
As World’s Problems Grow More Challenging, UN Chief Gets Bleaker
2023-09-25 (or before) by in VOA - Voice of America English NewsSecretary-General Antonio Guterres’ assessment, delivered in his no-nonsense style, aimed to shock
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East
Elephants on the march across African borders as fatalities are on the rise
2023-09-20 in The GuardianMore carcasses found as animals roam long distances and clash with local people in search for water
Tagged under: Africa | Wildlife | Zimbabwe
Climate action must respond to extreme weather driving health crisis, says WHO
2023-09-19 in The GuardianMelting ice caps and rising sea levels are urgent but people care more about the floods, wildfires and droughts that are here now, New York summit hears
Tagged under: COP28 | Libya | Drought | Africa | Ice Melting | Sea Level | Health | Middle East | Wildfires
Fast and fair renewable energy for Africa: Lessons from Kenya - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2023-09-19 (or before) in business-humanrights.orgTagged under: Renewable Energy | Africa
Climate Change made Libya's deadly rainfall up to 50 times more likely - study | Reuters
2023-09-19 in ReutersClimate Change made the heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Libya up to 50 times more likely, scientists said on Tuesday.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Libya | Flooding | Extreme Rainfall | Africa
‘Disastrous beyond comprehension’: 10,000 missing after Libya floods
2023-09-12 in The GuardianNeighbourhoods washed away in port city of Derna, where two dams burst, with many bodies swept out to sea
Tagged under: Libya | Africa | Middle East
Targeting Congolese exploration, Greenpeace pursues insurers
2023-09-08 by in Energy VoiceThe report finds that coverage for the oil blocks would be “prohibitively expensive” for any winning companies. Congo lacks the capacity domestically to provide insurance.
Tagged under: Congo | Africa | Insurance | Greenpeace
Africa proposes global carbon taxes to fight climate change - BBC News
2023-09-08 (or before) in The BBCDespite suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change, the continent only gets 12% of financing.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts
African leaders call for debt relief to help tackle climate crisis
2023-09-06 in The GuardianNairobi declaration, issued at first Africa Climate Summit, also includes call for global carbon taxes
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Finance
CDP: Extreme heat is worst climate hazard for world's cities
2023-08-24 in Business GreenNon-profit reveals extreme heat it the most widely reported climate hazard among global cities
Tagged under: Africa | Extreme Heat
Landscape of conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652–1780
2023-08-17 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology an...
Tagged under: Africa
Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert
2023-08-12 in The GuardianWater scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president
Tagged under: Farming | Africa
‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries
2023-07-26 in The Guardian‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe
Tagged under: Spain | Africa | Heatwaves
Southern Europe braces for second heat storm in a week
2023-07-16 in The GuardianNew system pushing into region from north Africa could lead to temperatures above record 48.8C
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu declares state of emergency over food - BBC News
2023-07-14 (or before) in The BBCThe president plans to provide protection to farmers targeted by notorious kidnapping gangs.
Tagged under: Farming | Nigeria | Africa
Nigerian kidnap gangs drive big-time Nigerian farmers away - BBC News
2023-07-14 (or before) in The BBCSome of those key to boosting agricultural output in Africa's most-populous nation have given up.
Tagged under: Farming | Nigeria | Africa
Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa - IOPscience
2023-07-10 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Children | Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts
What a world 1.5 degrees hotter would look like
2023-06-30 (or before) in ips-journal.eu | IPS JournalTo mitigate the worst climate change impacts, we need to consider implementing climate solutions outside of the free economic market
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Famine | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Justice
Demand for EV mineral skyrockets, leaving miners largely overlooked - Washington Post
2023-06-15 (or before) in The Washington PostSouth Africa is the world’s largest producer of manganese, but the EV industry has done little to protect miners from the neurological hazards of the mineral.
Tagged under: Minerals | South Africa | Africa
Reconciling theory with the reality of African heatwaves
2023-06-15 (or before) in NatureExtreme weather damage databases report no significant heatwave impacts in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900, yet the region has experienced a number of heatwaves and will be affected disproportionately by them under climate change. Addressing this reporting discrepancy is crucial to assess the impacts of future extreme heat there.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Heatwaves
Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit
2023-06-08 in The GuardianSultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say
Tagged under: COP28 | Africa | Middle East
Renewable Energy Grid Survey points to 66 GW development pipeline in South Africa
2023-06-06 (or before) by in Engineering News|Real-Economy NewsA new survey of South Africa’s renewable-energy development pipeline, and its potential implications for grid planning and investment, reveals that there is currently a 66 GW pipeline of wind and solar projects in South Africa and that a number of these projects are envisaged to be coupled with battery storage. The pipeline also includes some 2 GW of gas-to-power. The ‘Renewable Energy Grid Survey’, which has been compiled by Eskom in collaboration with the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) and the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) indicates that about 18.3 GW is at an a...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Africa | Wind Power | Electricity Grid
Quest for coveted EV battery metals yields misery in Guinea - Washington Post
2023-05-21 (or before) in The Washington PostThe soaring demand for electric vehicles is fueling dramatic changes in Guinea, home to the world’s largest bauxite reserves.
Tagged under: Africa | Minerals | Mining
‘No one saw this level of devastation coming’: climate crisis worsens in Somalia
2023-05-19 in The GuardianTorrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homes
Tagged under: Drought | Africa | Middle East
‘The city was underwater’: quarter of a million Somalis flee flooded homes
2023-05-17 in The GuardianClimate crisis a key factor in flash flooding of Beledweyne as rains end drought and Shabelle River breaks its banks
Tagged under: Drought | Africa | Rivers | Middle East
Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health and children are especially vulnerable
2023-05-17 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalI studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1989. Over six years as an undergraduate I was taught the science of medicine by teachers who were superb scientists and clinicians. I graduated with a keen sense of pathology, anatomy, microbiology and all the specialties. Unsurprisingly, I was acutely aware of how the politics of the day impacted on how I practised medicine in South Africa and from a very early undergraduate stage it didn’t take a genius to realise that ethnicity had a direct impact on the pattern of diseases and patient outcomes. Yet we were not taught about the social determinants of heal...
Tagged under: Africa | Health | Women and Children
Warning signs across the world suggest climate change is now out of control – Dr Richard Dixon
2023-05-15 (or before) in The ScotsmanWildfires rage in Canada, heatwaves in Europe, Africa and Asia, sea ice and glaciers disappearing – the effects of climate change are becoming impossible to ignore
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Heatwaves | Wildfires
Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks
2023-05-11 in The GuardianStudy of piracy hotspots in east Africa and South China Sea found that piracy increases when fish populations decline and vice versa
Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people
2023-05-11 in The GuardianUkraine war and Pakistan’s ‘monsoon on steroids’ among events driving surge on ‘scale never seen before’ as 71m people displaced
Tagged under: Conflict | Africa | Middle East
Insurance giant ‘breached international guidelines’ by backing oil pipeline
2023-05-05 (or before) in The Bureau InvestigatesA group of NGOs allege that Marsh is contributing to the serious harm caused by the pipeline by providing the insurance services necessary for the project to progress
Tagged under: Africa | Insurance | Finance
Who's Insuring the East African Crude Oil Pipeline? — #StopEACOP
2023-05-05 (or before) in Stop EACOPWhich insurers have ruled out support for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline? Check our list
Tagged under: Insurance | Africa
Insurance giant Marsh signs on for environmentally disastrous pipeline project
2023-05-05 (or before) in The Bureau InvestigatesCompany defies its employees to broker project that will generate 33 million tons of carbon emissions each year
Tagged under: Africa | EACOP | Insurance
BEYOND OIL — #StopEACOP
2023-05-05 (or before) in Stop EACOPFor too long, giant multinational oil companies have been making empty promises to the people of Uganda and neighboring countries in East and Central Africa. They’ve convinced governments and investors to pour money into proposed fossil fuel projects, but the reality is that the value of oil is plummeting.
Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-05-03 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceArmed conflict within nations has had disastrous humanitarian consequences throughout much of the world. Here we undertake the first comprehensive ...
Tagged under: Conflict | Climate Change | Africa
Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists
2023-04-26 in The GuardianEurope accused of ‘neocolonialism’ for using vassal small island states to sway policy and continue ‘disgraceful plundering’ of distant waters
Tagged under: Pacific Ocean | Africa | Fish | Wildlife | Indonesia
Opinion | My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory
2023-04-18 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Geoengineering
Swimming pools of the rich driving city water crises, study says
2023-04-10 in The GuardianPools and well-watered gardens at least as damaging as climate emergency or population growth
Tagged under: Drought | Africa
Tunisia to cut off public water supplies overnight due to drought
2023-04-05 (or before) in ReutersTunisia will cut off water supplies to citizens for seven hours a night in response to the country's worst drought on record, state water distribution company SONEDE said in a statement on Friday.
Tagged under: Drought | Africa
Revealed: UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit
2023-04-04 in The GuardianExclusive: UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners
Tagged under: COP28 | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Middle East
More of SA’s parking lots are getting solar makeovers | Business
2023-03-26 (or before) by in news24.comSouth African landlords are turning their parking areas into clean energy hubs as they seek to reduce electricity costs and shield their tenants from rolling blackouts.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | South Africa | Africa | Electricity
Somalia drought: 43,000 died in 2022 and this year’s toll will be higher, study finds | The Independent
2023-03-20 (or before) in The Independent‘Unrelenting droughts’ have created worst hunger crisis for 70 years says
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Africa | Famine | Health
As the disturbing scenes in Tunisia show, anti-migrant sentiments have gone global | Nesrine Malik
2023-03-13 in The GuardianPresident Saied is scapegoating his country’s small black migrant population to distract from political failings. Does this sound familiar, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East
Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak
2023-03-10 in The GuardianThe disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system
Tagged under: Children | Africa | Health | Women and Children
Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall
2023-03-01 in The GuardianStudy adds to fears Amazon is approaching tipping point after which it will not be able to generate its own rainfall
Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Rainfall | Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil | Africa | Trees | Indonesia | Tipping Points
Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence
2023-02-16 (or before) in MITThe work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism. Education has never play
Tagged under: Activism | South Africa | Africa
Insurance giant Marsh in firing line over controversial East Africa pipeline
2023-02-07 in upstreamonline.comNon-profits allege Marsh’s involvement in EACOP line must be ‘scrutinised’
Tagged under: Africa | Insurance | TotalEnergies
Nigeria floods: Songs and testimonies from a drowning world - BBC News
2023-01-29 (or before) in The BBCPortraits of communities devastated by the worst recorded floods in Nigeria.
Tagged under: Nigeria | Africa
Portugal agrees to swap Cape Verde's debt for environmental investment
2023-01-24 by in Climate Home NewsCape Verde owes around $150m to the Portugese state - but Portugal says it will write off the debt if the African island nation spends the money on environmental measures
Tagged under: Africa | Finance
African activists cast doubt over climate talks' credibility
2023-01-17 in Associated Press NewsMOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate agency, accusing it of allowing corporations and individuals with dubious climate credentials to greenwash their polluting activities by participating in its annual climate conference.
Tagged under: Activism | Africa
Let’s face reality. Fossil fuel interests have destroyed the Cops – we need something new | Bill McGuire
2023-01-16 in The GuardianIt beggars belief that the UN thought it a good idea to allow an authoritarian petro-state to host the already compromised summit, says Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of climate hazards
Tagged under: COP28 | Africa | Middle East
Unprecedented Drought Emergency In The Horn Of Africa – OpEd
2022-12-28 in eurasiareview.comBy J Nastranis The United Nations has warned that the Horn of Africa is facing an unprecedented drought emergency, which will unleash catastrophic consequences. Communities in the region are in the…
Tagged under: Drought | Africa
COP27: BP chief listed as delegate for Mauritania - BBC News
2022-11-19 (or before) in BBCChief executive of leading oil company is registered for COP27 as a delegate from poor African nation.
Tagged under: COP27 | BP | Africa
‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan
2022-11-19 in The GuardianKingdom’s Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say
Tagged under: COP27 | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia
Climate change exacerbated heavy rainfall leading to large scale flooding in highly vulnerable communities in West Africa – World Weather Attribution
2022-11-17 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Extreme Rainfall | Climate Change | Africa
‘It turns out that a sandstorm is not the same wherever it happens’
2022-11-16 in The GuardianStark difference in experience of sandstorms in Cairo and Dubai raises questions as climate crisis deepens
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East
Africa has vast gas reserves – here’s how to stop them adding to climate change
2022-11-15 by in The ConversationDeveloped nations threaten to consume more than their fair share of Earth’s dwindling carbon budget.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa
The colonial exploitation of Africas fossil fuels must stop
2022-11-13 (or before) in Context NewsTagged under: Africa | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero
UN unveils satellite-based system to spot methane #GlobalWarming #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis [Video]
2022-11-12 in Energy News VideosThe UN unveiled on Friday a satellite-based system to detect methane emissions as part of efforts to cut down on the major contributor to global warming. MARS will use data from global mapping satellites to detect methane "hot spots" and large plumes of the gas, and identify its source, the UN Environment Programme said in a statement.
Tagged under: Africa | Methane | Sustainability
How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests
2022-11-10 in The GuardianThird of Congo basin’s tropical forests are under threat from fossil fuel investments, undermining climate action, report warns
Tagged under: COP27 | Congo | Rainforests | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Trees
Global South Climate Database - Carbon Brief
2022-11-01 (or before) in Carbon BriefThe “Global South Climate Scientists Database” was launched to ensure that journalists can contact scientists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific.
Tagged under: Africa | South America
Two-thirds of US money for fossil fuel pours into Africa despite climate goals
2022-10-31 in The GuardianJoe Biden will fly to Africa to attend the Cop27 talks in Egypt but the US funnels billions to dirty projects on the continent
Tagged under: COP27 | Joe Biden | Africa
‘Monstrous’ east African oil project will emit vast amounts of carbon, data shows
2022-10-27 in The GuardianExperts say crude oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania will produce 25 times host nations’ combined annual emissions
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Fossil Fuels
OPINIONISTA: Fossil fuel multinationals can never pay Africa enough compensation – the price is life on Earth
2022-10-24 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsMany Africans live close to the land – as subsistence or small-scale farmers, or from fishing in rivers, lakes and coastal waters. When the oil and gas industry trumpets the jobs it will create, it never mentions the jobs, the land and the water it will destroy.
Tagged under: Africa | Fish | Rivers
Chad – Floods Affect Almost 1 Million as Damage to Crops Increases Food Insecurity – FloodList
2022-10-08 (or before) in floodlist.comTagged under: Africa
‘Reckless’ coal firms plan climate-busting expansion, study finds
2022-10-06 in The GuardianCoal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and investors must stop funding it, say campaigners
Tagged under: COP27 | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Russia
Cop27 host Egypt warns UK not to backtrack from climate agenda
2022-10-03 in The GuardianUnusual diplomatic intervention prompted by fears over Liz Truss’s commitment to net zero
Tagged under: COP27 | Africa | Net Zero | Middle East
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa - Elisa Savelli, Maria Rusca, Hannah Cloke, Tyrel J Flügel, Abdulrazak Karriem, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, 2022
2022-09-22 (or before) in Sage JournalsThis paper conceptualises droughts as socioecological phenomena coproduced by the recursive engagement of human and non-human transformations. Through an interd...
Tagged under: Drought | South Africa | Africa
State of Climate in Africa highlights water stress and hazards
2022-09-05 in World Meteorological OrganizationWater stress and hazards like withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and ecosystems hard. Rainfall patterns are disrupted, glaciers are disappearing and key lakes are shrinking. Rising water demand combined with limited and unpredictable supplies threatens to aggravate conflict and displacement, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Tagged under: Drought | Conflict | Africa
Environmentalist Elizabeth Wathuti: ‘Perhaps I had something President Biden really needed to hear’
2022-08-30 in The GuardianKenya’s rising climate star tells how her speech at Cop26 grabbed a world leader’s attention, and urges policymakers to go beyond mere pledges
Tagged under: Activism | Joe Biden | COP26 | Africa | Sustainability
Europe Is Trying to Solve Its Energy Crisis With Fossil Fuel Projects in Africa
2022-08-20 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismStruggles for social justice and climate justice must be united to transform society amid government inaction.
Tagged under: Africa | Climate Justice
When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours
2022-07-29 by in DeSmogEditor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit, which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, […]
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves | Drought | Africa | Disinformation and Misinformation
Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’
2022-07-24 in The New York TimesTagged under: Congo | Land Use | Africa | Greenpeace | Trees
Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows
2022-07-13 in MongabayIn October 2021, the city of Guriel in Somalia’s Galguduud region became the epicenter of fierce fighting between the national army and a paramilitary group that left more than 100 people dead and displaced another 100,000. In November, the government declared a national emergency as drought intensified over 80% of the country, including in Galguduud. […]
Tagged under: Drought | Conflict | Climate Change | Africa
Green Energy’s Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources
2022-07-04 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasThe scramble for battery metals threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history.
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | China | Minerals | Africa | Colonialism
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs
2022-06-28 in The GuardianNairobi biodiversity talks end in stalemate, prompting open letter to world leaders calling for action before Montreal conference
Tagged under: Africa | Wildlife
‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving
2022-06-20 in The GuardianAguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought
Tagged under: Children | Drought | Africa | Women and Children
How climate change, overfishing and COVID drove irregular migration from West Africa
2022-06-16 by in The ConversationThe influx of migrants from West Africa must be viewed as a manifestation of problems in the countries of origin.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa
‘Apocalyptic skies’: the dust storms devastating Gulf states and Syria
2022-06-03 in The GuardianRising frequency of storms due to climate crisis is causing more loss of life and more destruction, say experts
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East | Saudi Arabia
Sooty hands and damaged lungs: the toll of Nigeria’s illegal refineries
2022-05-29 in The GuardianA recent clampdown on illegal oil refineries in Rivers State was welcomed by campaigners alarmed at the mounting medical toll on those living in the area. But will it have a lasting impact?
Tagged under: Nigeria | Africa | Rivers | Fossil Fuels
Solar power shines through after a slow start in Africa | Financial Times
2022-05-26 in Financial TimesThe case for the renewable energy source is becoming clearer on the ‘sun continent’
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Africa
Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis
2022-05-21 in The GuardianThe Bank of England governor warned last week of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises. Yet war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation are already taking their toll all over the world
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Economics | Famine
Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal - Nature Food
2022-05-15 (or before) in NatureElimination of hunger will require shifts in crop usage by 2030. Calories will need to be obtained from crops currently harvested for purposes other than direct food consumption. Sub-Saharan Africa, however, will likely fall short even if all harvested calories are used directly as food.
Tagged under: Africa
South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
2022-05-13 in The GuardianBrutal heatwave in India and Pakistan also certain to have been exacerbated by global heating, scientists say
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | South Africa | Africa
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk - Nature
2022-04-29 (or before) in NatureAt least 10,000 virus species have the capacity to infect humans, but at present, the vast majority are circulating silently in wild mammals1,2. However, climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife3,4. In some cases, this will facilitate zoonotic spillover—a mechanistic link between global environmental change and disease emergence. Here, we simulate potential hotspots of future viral sharing, using a phylogeographic model of the mammal-virus network, and projections of geographic range shifts for 3,139 mammal species under clim...
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Africa | Wildlife
Moving Beyond GDP: The Case for Wealth as a Core Measure of National Progress
2022-04-29 (or before) in Earth Negotiations Bulletin - International Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentDespite its frequent use as the main measure of progress, GDP fails to account for health, happiness, inequality, and environmental sustainability. An expert panel explored how a focus on wealth could inform policymaking in Africa—and how to make the shift.
Tagged under: Africa | GDP | Economic Growth | Health | Sustainability
‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
2022-04-28 in The GuardianTropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss
Tagged under: Deforestation | Congo | COP26 | Rainforests | Brazil | Africa | Wildlife | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Trees | Indonesia
Wildfires will pose great socioeconomic risk in future, say researchers
2022-03-22 in The GuardianChinese and American scientists say western and central Africa may be hit in future
Tagged under: Wildfires | Africa
Better use of groundwater could transform Africa, research says
2022-03-21 in The GuardianStudies ‘debunk the myth that Africa is running out of water’ but say resource needs to be better managed
Tagged under: Africa
Dedicating my next 20 years to climate change: An interview with Sir David King FRS MAE - Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub
2022-03-14 in Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge HubAAAS Award winner and former UK Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King, shares his ambitious plans to tackle the global challenge of climate change. About Sir David King FRS MAE Professor Sir David King FRS MAE is a South African-born British chemist, Emeritus Professor and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. He is the founder and Chair for the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge. Sir David was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science from 2000 to... Read More Read More
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa
UN climate report: 'Atlas of human suffering' worse, bigger | AP News
2022-02-28 (or before) in Associated Press NewsDeadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Africa | Climate Change | Middle East
Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change
2022-02-28 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceAuthor summary The established scientific consensus indicates that climate change will severely exacerbate the risk and burden of Aedes-transmitted viruses, including dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and other significant threats to global health security. Here, we show more subtle impacts of climate change on transmission, caused primarily by differences between the more heat-tolerant Aedes aegypti and the more heat-limited Ae. albopictus. Within the next century, nearly a billion people could face their first exposure to viral transmission from either mosquito in the worst-case scenario, mainly in Europe and high-elevation tropical ...
Tagged under: Africa | Climate Change | Health | Climate Change Mitigation | Climate Change Impacts
Lake Malawi's Fish Defy Death - While Their World Heritage Home Is Threatened | We Don't Have Time
2022-02-28 (or before) in app.wedonthavetime.orgBy Jeffrey Barbee January 27, 2022 In the shallow rocky waters below a high granite outcrop a fish lies sideways, fallen onto the sand below. Its skin the hue of a rotting corpse, the fish is unmoving, apparently dead. But looks can be deceiving. As scavenger fish approach, the play-dead fish springs into action, snapping up the would-be eaters in a flurry of motion. One of hundreds of new fish species discovered in the warm waters of Lake Malawi in the last four decades, the play-dead fish’s only home is now in danger of being destroyed. Play dead fish Nimbochromis livingstonii. Picture: Ken McKaye/allianceearth.org Lake...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Weather | Africa | Fish | Rivers | Insects | Legislation | Electricity | Health | Trees | Finance
Africa hunger, famine: Facts, FAQs, and how to help
2022-02-22 by in worldvision.orgHunger is on the rise in Africa. Learn facts about drought, famine, malnutrition, and hunger in Africa as well as how you can help World Vision respond.
Tagged under: Drought | Africa | Famine
Illegal overfishing by Chinese trawlers leaves Sierra Leone locals ‘starving’
2022-02-01 in The GuardianAs illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless
Tagged under: Africa | Fish | Wildlife
Campaigners force Shell to halt oil exploration on South African coast
2021-12-28 in The GuardianCourt instructs company to stop tests along Wild Coast after concerns raised about wildlife and lack of consultation
Tagged under: Shell | South Africa | Africa | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels
Africa: Severe Water Stress, Absolute Scarcity for 2 to 4 Billion Humans By 2025
2021-12-24 in allAfrica.comNow it comes to the scary water crises, as it is estimated that, globally, over two billion people live in countries that experience high water stress.
Tagged under: Africa
No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in ‘clean’ air
2021-12-21 in The GuardianMicroplastics from Africa and North America found airborne in French Pyrenees, 2,877 metres above sea level
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Africa | Sea Level | France
Oil company accused of drilling in African wildlife reserve, offering jobs for silence
2021-12-18 (or before) in National GeographicCanada-based ReconAfrica appears to have flouted Namibian law, legal experts say.
Tagged under: Africa | Wildlife | Namibia
As eco-anxieties mount, Africa's young people urge action on clima
2021-12-08 (or before) by in News Thomson Reuters Foundation NewsAfrica has the world's youngest population, and youth activists from Sudan to South Africa have been vocal in pushing for bolder policy action
Tagged under: Activism | Africa
Why the Climate Panic About Africa Is Wrong
2021-12-07 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasOnce again, the rich world sees Africans as a threat to the planet.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Coal | Africa
China 'trumps' the west by pledging larger share of IMF relief to African nations
2021-12-01 in Climate Home NewsPresident Xi Jinping promised to share around a quarter of China's pandemic recovery boost with Africa, more than European and American countries
‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
2021-11-25 in The GuardianChinese companies dominate mining, battery and manufacturing sectors, and amid human rights concerns, Europe and the US are struggling to keep pace
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | Africa | Electric Cars | Cars
China cancels proposed 3GW coal plant in the Limpopo MM-SEZ
2021-11-18 in Fossil Free South Africa - The SA campaign for fossil fuel divestmentThe Chinese Embassy in South Africa has confirmed in correspondence with Fossil Free SA that China will not be funding the proposed 3GW power plant in the Limpopo MM-SEZ
Tagged under: Coal | South Africa | Africa
Christian Parenti: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
2021-11-11 (or before) in YouTubeIn his lecture Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Dr. Christian Parenti talks about our new climate reality. From Africa to As...
Tagged under: Global Warming | Conflict | Climate Change | Africa
Will climate change stop Arabia from being Saudi?
2021-10-29 (or before) in openDemocracyThe power of the House of Saud is a direct product of the West’s obsession with oil – can it survive a global shift to green energy?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Saudi Arabia
EU carbon border levy could sabotage climate goals, says thinktank
2021-10-28 in The GuardianRequiring carbon certificates could lead African producers to sell in markets with lower standards
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Africa
groundWork Homepage
2021-10-28 (or before) in GroundworkgroundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in Southern Africa in the areas of Climate & Energy Justice, Coal, Environmental Health, Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, and Waste.
Tagged under: Coal | Africa | Health | Climate Justice
Rich countries break ‘totemic’ $100B annual climate pledge
2021-10-25 in PoliticoThat undermines a bargain where developing countries were to cut emissions in return for climate finance.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | COP26 | Africa | Climate Change | Finance
Oil and gas group says African American ‘genetics’ are to blame for health problems, not pollution
2021-10-19 (or before) in Think ProgressCan green energy power Africa's future? - BBC News
2021-09-25 (or before) in The BBCEnergy access is a big issue for businesses in Africa, but can the continent go green as well?
Tagged under: Africa
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine - BBC News
2021-09-06 (or before) in BBCThe country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Famine | Madagascar
Climate crisis: Over 200 health journals urge world leaders to tackle “catastrophic harm”
2021-09-06 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalMore than 200 health journals have called on governments to take emergency action to tackle the “catastrophic harm to health” from climate change. A joint editorial says that while recent targets to reduce emissions and conserve biodiversity are welcome, they are not enough and need to be matched with credible short and longer term plans.1 The editorial was published simultaneously on 6 September in 233 international titles including The BMJ , the Lancet , the New England Journal of Medicine , the East African Medical Journal , the Chinese Science Bulletin , the National Medical Journal of India , and the Medical J...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Health
Tunisia plants seeds of hope against climate change
2021-09-02 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyTunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change.
Tagged under: Farming | Drought | Climate Change | Africa
Opec member urges oil producers to focus more on renewable energy
2021-09-01 in The GuardianIraqi minister and International Energy Agency chief urge countries to move away from fossil fuel dependency
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Middle East
Without help for oil-producing countries, net zero by 2050 is a distant dream | Ali Allawi and Fatih Birol
2021-09-01 in The GuardianTo meet climate targets and avoid economic collapse, countries such as Iraq need international support in the transition to clean energy, say Iraq’s deputy PM Ali Allawi and IEA executive director Fatih Birol
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Middle East | Collapse
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
2021-08-30 in The GuardianThe livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake’s occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently
Tagged under: Deforestation | Africa | Fish | Wildlife | Sustainability
From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry
2021-08-24 in The GuardianHundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertification
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East | Trees
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
2021-08-24 in The BBCThe country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.
Tagged under: Africa | Madagascar
Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa
2021-07-11 (or before) in Centre for Environmental Rights, South AfricaWe are activist lawyers who defend the right of communities and civil society organisations to an environment not harmful to health or wellbeing for
Tagged under: Activism | South Africa | Africa | Health
BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on edge of world’s largest cold-water coral reef | The Independent
2021-06-21 (or before) in The IndependentExclusive: Oil giant’s plan to drill off west coast of Africa could raise the risk of biodiversity loss, further global heating and toxic fuel spills, an investigation reveals
Tagged under: BP | Climate Change | Africa | Coral Reefs
A Big Oil Project in Africa Threatens Fragile Okavango Region
2021-06-20 (or before) in Yale E360A Canadian company is drilling exploratory wells in Namibia for what could be a major oil and gas find. Local residents and conservationists fear the project could use up scarce water supplies and cause widespread ecological disruption downstream in the world-renowned Okavango Delta.
Tagged under: Africa | Namibia
New oilfield in African wilderness threatens lives of 130,000 elephants
2021-06-20 in The GuardianExploratory project in Botswana and Namibia is threat to ecosystems, local communities and wildlife, conservationists say
Tagged under: Africa | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels | Namibia
(PDF) Environmental assessment of the East African Rift Valley lakes
2021-06-14 (or before) in ResearchGatePDF | An assessment of the East African Rift Valley lakes was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with funding from Global... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Tagged under: Africa
‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour
2021-05-17 in The GuardianControversial deal with China would be disastrous for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents
Tagged under: China | Rainforests | Africa | Fish
Oil excavation in Africa’s Kavango region must be stopped to meet world climate promises | The Independent
2021-05-15 (or before) in The IndependentThe climate column: Oil play in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana will affect climate targets, endanger indigenous communities and could be disastrous for conservation
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Conservation | Africa | Climate Change | Wildlife | Namibia
Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis
2021-05-14 in The GuardianFood-growing areas will see drastic changes to rainfall and temperatures if global heating continues at current rate
Tagged under: Farming | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Africa | Food Production and Consumption
Total signs deal to build East African oil pipeline, despite lack of finance
2021-04-12 by in Climate Home NewsUganda and Tanzania have given political backing to the 1,445km East African Crude Oil Pipeline, but climate campaigners are deterring investment
Tagged under: Africa | Finance
Ignoring climate change will lead to unprecedented, societally disruptive heat extremes in the Middle East
2021-03-26 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyThe Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) is a climate change hot spot where summers warm much faster than in the rest of the world. Some parts of the region are already among the hottest locations globally. A new international study led by scientists from the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center of the Cyprus Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry predicts that ignoring the signals of climate change and continuing business as usual with increasing greenhouse gas emissions will lead to extreme, life-threatening heatwaves in the region. Such extraordinary heat events will have a severe impact on the people of...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Predictions | Climate Change | Middle East
Tullow Oil paid UCD €2m to run courses in Africa, South America
2021-03-25 (or before) in The Irish TimesOil company funded a number of academic posts at UCD as part of five-year agreement
Tagged under: Africa
World's top emitters a long way from aligning with climate goals | Reuters
2021-03-23 (or before) in ReutersThe world's biggest carbon-emitting companies are far from aligning with the Paris Climate Agreement, a report by the leading climate-focused investor group showed on Monday.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Japan | Food Production and Consumption | Finance
Total's play for Ugandan oil tests the climate commitment of international banks
2021-03-19 by in Climate Home NewsA final investment decision on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is expected at the end of March, as campaigners urge financial institutions to avoid fossil fuels
Tagged under: Africa | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels
UK climate leadership seen weakened by aid cut for world's poor | Reuters
2021-03-16 (or before) in ReutersBritain's decision to cut its aid budget will likely dent its reputation on the global diplomatic stage and may weaken a push for other wealthy governments to find more funding to help poor nations tackle climate change, aid groups and think-tanks said.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Finance
Shell in Nigeria: Polluted communities 'can sue in English courts' - BBC News
2021-02-14 (or before) in BBCThe UK Supreme Court's ruling is a victory for communities severely hit by pollution in the Niger Delta.
Tagged under: Shell | Nigeria | Africa
Could a deadly pig virus transform Germany’s fixation on 'cheap meat'?
2021-01-07 in The GuardianAfrican swine fever and Covid outbreaks among workers have raised questions over mega farms for pork
Tagged under: Farming | Germany | Africa
‘Large-scale human rights violations’ taint Congo national park project
2020-11-26 in The GuardianConservation groups proposing a protected area in the river basin accused of ignoring the interests of the Baka people
Tagged under: Congo | Africa | Rivers | Trees
Sahel region is 'canary in the coalmine' on climate, says UN official
2020-10-19 in The GuardianMark Lowcock criticises ‘totally inadequate’ effort to help Sahel countries adapt to global heating
Tagged under: Coal | Africa | Mali
Botswana says it has solved mystery of mass elephant die-off
2020-09-21 in The GuardianElephants may have ingested toxins produced by bacteria found in waterholes
Tagged under: Africa | Zimbabwe
Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule
2020-09-07 in The GuardianReport calls for more support if plan to plant 100m hectares of vegetation is to be realised
Floods Washed Away More Than 25% of Nigeria’s Rice Harvest
2020-09-05 (or before) in BloombergFloods washed away at least two million tons of rice in Nigeria, the second-largest importer of the grain. That is more than 25% of the previously projected national output of 8 million tons, according to estimates by a farmers’ organization.
Tagged under: Farming | Nigeria | Africa
'Our dead are buried there': Ebo logging decree sparks anger in Cameroon
2020-08-11 in The GuardianEbo forest is home to hundreds of rare species including Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees
Tagged under: Nigeria | Africa | Wildlife | Trees
Global warming trends highlight 'enormous challenge' of meeting Paris climate pledge, WMO says | Reuters
2020-07-09 (or before) in ReutersGlobal temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Wildlife
Dry tropical forests may be more at risk than wet rainforests, study says
2020-07-03 in The GuardianAreas with a drier climate have seen greater loss of biodiversity from global warming
Tagged under: Rainforests | Africa | Trees
Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa
2020-06-07 (or before) in mpg.deClimate change could lead to more climate refugees from the Middle East and North Africa according to calculations by a team of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, led by J. Lelieveld.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Middle East
High winds kill thousands of migrating birds in 'disaster' over Greece
2020-04-09 in The GuardianSwallows and swifts on their annual flight from Africa to Europe have been found dead across Greece
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Africa | Wildlife
Locust crisis poses a danger to millions, forecasters warn
2020-03-20 in The GuardianExperts fear swarms like those seen in Africa will become more common as tropical storms create favourable breeding conditions
Tagged under: Africa | Conflict | Middle East
'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
2020-03-18 in The GuardianAs habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics
Tagged under: Africa | Wildlife
Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change | Reuters
2020-03-10 (or before) in ReutersPope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take "drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency.
Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Africa | Forest Fires | Fossil Fuels | Pope Francis | Finance
Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon
2020-02-28 in The GuardianOil exploration in one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet could release greenhouse gases equivalent to Japan’s annual emissions
Tagged under: Congo | Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Fossil Fuels
East Africa locust outbreak sparks calls for international help | Environment News | Al Jazeera
2020-01-25 (or before) in Al JazeeraDesert locust infestation threatens food security and livelihoods in region reeling from drought and deadly floods.
Tagged under: Drought | Africa
‘Hypocrisy’: 90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels
2020-01-24 in The GuardianExclusive: Almost £2bn went to oil and gas despite a UK pledge to support cleaner energy in African countries
Tagged under: Africa | Fossil Fuels
UK-AIS COMMERCIAL DEALS
2020-01-24 (or before) in GOV.UKA summary of 27 commercial deals worth over £6.5bn from across the African markets invited to the UK-Africa Investment Summit
Tagged under: Africa
UK could tap into Africa's $24bn market for off-grid solar power
2020-01-21 in The GuardianRapidly growing sector could prove lucrative as Britain seeks post-Brexit trade opportunities
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Africa | Electricity Grid
How Flooding Is Devastating the Central African Republic
2020-01-16 (or before) in TIME MagazineA photographer documents the worst flooding in two decades
Tagged under: Africa
Britons reach Africans’ annual carbon emissions in just two weeks
2020-01-05 in The GuardianResearch for Oxfam shows inequality between footprints of people in UK and in countries including Rwanda, Ethiopia and Malawi
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Africa
Deadly drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry
2019-12-30 (or before) in YouTubeThe worst drought in decades is impacting 45 million people in 14 countries across southern Africa.Zimbabwe is one of the countries most affected. Al Jazeera...
Tagged under: Drought | South Africa | Africa | Zimbabwe
Lebanon heads for meltdown as protesters keep returning to streets
2019-12-25 in The GuardianPower of the street has run headlong into a system invested in entrenched graft and incompetence
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
2019-12-16 in The GuardianDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
Tagged under: Children | Tesla | Congo | Cobalt | Africa | Women and Children
The role of innovation in augmenting Healthcare – the ColaLife Story
2019-11-29 in ColaLife - Making co-packaged ORS and Zinc the go-to treatment for diarrhoeaI have spent the last two days (27 to 28-Nov-19) at the Africa Health Extension Summit (#AHES19) in Nairobi where I told an abbreviated version of the ColaLife story to illustrate the role of innov…
Quarter of world's pig population 'to die due to African swine fever'
2019-10-31 in The GuardianWorld Organisation for Animal Health warns spread of disease has inflamed worldwide crisis
Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action | Reuters
2019-10-26 (or before) in ReutersAlmost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Wildlife | US Politics
Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems: African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate change
2019-10-23 (or before) in Science DailyScientists from around the world argue that the suggested afforestation of large areas of Africa to mitigate climate change will destroy valuable ecological, agricultural, and tourist areas, while doing little to reduce global CO2 levels.
Tagged under: Africa | Climate Change | Trees
Bittersweet nature of nitrogen calls for better management practices
2019-10-23 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeNearly 80 per cent of the air we breathe is nitrogen, a harmless inert gas. However, nitrogen also combines with other atoms to form chemical compounds—known as “reactive nitrogen” or “fixed nitrogen” (Nr)—that are essential for life on Earth but, at high concentrations, also hugely damaging to the environment.
Tagged under: Oceans | Africa | Caribbean
Banks warned over Saudi Aramco by environmental groups
2019-10-17 in The GuardianTen green groups send letter to express concern over planned market float
Tagged under: Africa | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
2019-10-09 in The GuardianNew data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Africa | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
'The crisis is already here': young strikers facing climate apartheid
2019-09-19 in The GuardianYoung activists call for north-south solidarity to tackle climate emergency that threatens to exacerbate inequality and conflict
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Bolsonaro | Greenhouse Gases | Nigeria | Africa
Africa’s tropical land emitted more CO2 than the US in 2016, satellite data shows - Carbon Brief
2019-08-13 in Carbon BriefAfrica’s tropical land released close to 6bn tonnes of CO2 in 2016, according to data taken by satellites. This means that, if Africa’s tropical regions were a country, it would be the second largest emitter of CO2 in the world – ahead of the US, which currently emits 5.3bn tonnes of CO2 a year.
Tagged under: Africa
Can planting billions of trees save the planet?
2019-06-19 in The GuardianOrganisations from around the world are reforesting at an unprecedented rate
Tagged under: Africa | Madagascar | Kenya | Trees
Tech firms to check suppliers after mining revelations in Tanzania
2019-06-18 in The GuardianApple says it is ‘deeply committed to responsible sourcing of materials’
Tagged under: Africa
SolarAid
2019-05-26 (or before) in SolarAid | Combatting poverty and climate changeLighting up every home, school and clinic in Africa by 2030
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Africa
BUSINESS MAVERICK OP-ED: Who will make the energy transition just?
2019-05-26 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsThe power cuts South Africans endured earlier in 2019 were a vivid reminder to all of us of the defining role that a reliable, constant supply of energy plays in our daily lives. But like addicts who depend on a ready supply regardless of the crushing cost, our current systems for delivering energy are killing us.
Tagged under: South Africa | Africa
Universal basic income doesn’t work. Let’s boost the public realm instead | Anna Coote
2019-05-06 in The GuardianA study of UBI trials concludes that making cash payments to all is no solution to poverty and inequality, says author Anna Coote
Tagged under: Africa
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018
2019-04-25 in The GuardianPristine forests are vital for climate and wildlife but trend of losses is rising, data shows
Tagged under: Deforestation | Congo | Rainforests | Brazil | Africa | Wildlife | Trees | Indonesia
Historians rethink the Green Revolution
2019-02-26 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter mostBy Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis A memorable episode of The West Wing, the dramatic series about the US presidency, features a President Nimbala of a fictive African republi…
Tagged under: Africa
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
2019-02-21 in The GuardianReport says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Africa | Famine | Caribbean | Madagascar
The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News
2019-01-22 (or before) in The BBCClimate change is aggravating the conflict in Mali and making it harder to survive. writes Lyse Doucet.
Tagged under: Africa | Global Warming | Conflict | Climate Change | Mali
John Kerry: Europe must tackle climate change or face migration chaos
2018-11-16 in The GuardianThe ex-US secretary of state, speaking at a Guardian Live event, predicts mass movement from Africa
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Africa | European Union
Top White House aide 'fired' after Melania Trump intervention, report says – as it happened
2018-11-13 by Lauren Gambino in The GuardianFirst lady called for Mira Ricardel, top aide to John Bolton, to go after the two had a dispute over plane seating during Africa trip
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Africa | US Politics
Climate change is exacerbating world conflicts, says Red Cross president
2018-10-21 in The Guardian‘It’s obvious some of the violence we are observing … is directly linked to climate change,’ says Peter Maurer
Tagged under: Conflict | Climate Change | Africa
Third of Earth's soil is acutely degraded due to agriculture
2017-09-12 in The GuardianFertile soil is being lost at rate of 24bn tonnes a year through intensive farming as demand for food increases, says UN-backed study
Tagged under: Farming | Africa | Middle East
We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy | Desmond Tutu
2014-09-20 in The GuardianOn the eve of the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu argues that tactics used against firms who did business with South Africa must now be applied to fossil fuels to prevent human suffering
Tagged under: South Africa | Africa | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Activist groups take aim at World Bank for assisting corporate land takeovers in Africa
2012-04-23 by in Deep Green Resistance News ServiceBy John Vidal & Claire Provost / The Guardian The World Bank is helping corporations and international investors snap up cheap land in Africa and developing countries worldwide at the expense of local communities, environment and farm groups said in a statement released on Monday to coincide with the bank’s annual land and poverty conference […]
Tagged under: Farming | Africa | Activism | Colonialism
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