Climate change in Africa News

[ENA] Ethiopia after a project's successful achievement of reducing deforestation and polluting gases in Bale and West Oromia, gained over 149 million birr from carbon trading sold through REDD+.

[ANGOP] Ondjiva -- A plague of locusts, which appeared last Friday (9), is destroying crops of millet, sorghum and corn in the southern Cunene Province of Angola.

[IPS] Cambridge Ma -- The battle for the future of food has grown contentious, and José Graziano da Silva has become a lightning rod for criticism. In 2014, as Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), he presided over the institution's first International Agroecology Symposium, opening what he called "a new window in the Cathedral of the Green Revolution." The FAO has since then formalized support for "Scaling Up Agroecology" while continuing to promote the kinds of chemical-intensi

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] If we seize the moment and work together - boomers and millennials - there are very real chances for a future world that is better than the one today's adults were born into

[SAnews.gov.za] The 30th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change has urged developed countries to revisit their climate change mitigation targets while also urging them to provide support to developing countries.

[Namibian] FORESTS in Africa, including in Namibia, are shrinking.

[Seychelles News Agency] Several projects including a fast patrol vessel funded by the Indian government were handed over officially to Seychelles on Thursday in a virtual inaugural ceremony.

[The Herald] Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has called on the media to expose corporates and individuals failing to properly dispose waste, as the nation moves towards achieving a clean and healthy environment.

[Africa Renewal] Susan Ojochide (from Nigeria) talks about her research that will help to alleviate food insecurity in semi-arid areas.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Now is the time to engage those left out of important conversations and build a more just, compassionate and climate-smart post-pandemic world

[The Conversation Africa] In parts of West Africa, patches of forest have been preserved for long periods of time because of their cultural or religious significance. These "sacred forests" are believed to be inhabited and protected by gods, totem animals or ancestors. Local communities have their own rules prohibiting reckless harvesting of timber and game, which have protected the sacred forests over many generations.

[Egypt Online] In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate and the Most Merciful

[The Herald] Water in Lake Kariba has risen by 25 percent over the past month from a level of 480.76m recorded in March this year to a lake level of 481.97 meters further bolstering hopes for secure energy supplies for Zimbabwe and Zambia.

[Daily Maverick] Companies emit more greenhouse gases than they should because they can. South Africa's new(ish) carbon tax system puts a price on carbon that will hopefully bring emissions down.

[The Conversation Africa] Cycads, the world's oldest seed-producing plants, are facing extinction. Africa is home to a variety of cycad species and South Africa is regarded as a global hotspot for cycad diversity.

[MAP] Rabat -- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese abroad Aïssata Tall Sall, described Tuesday the Moroccan experience in terms of management of dry, arid and desert areas, as "important for the Great Green Wall project" in the Sahel.

[Greenpeace] Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) recently released official statistics for unemployment since the national lockdown decimated South Africa, leading to a cumulative 16.4% contraction of the economy.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- A pandemic has blanketed the planet. Economies have cratered. Across the world, people are scared, anxious and unsteady about the future.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has argued that the international financial response to the Covid-19 emergency should include debt relief, support for budgetary liquidity, and interventions in resilience and adaptation to climate change.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The coronavirus-linked economic slowdown is limiting cash to help Africans pay to adapt to climate extremes, from drought to floods