Climate change in Africa News

[Daily News] DEVELOPMENT stakeholders and other children's right stakeholders have been asked to join efforts in raising public awareness on climate change, its effect on children's right and how the problem can be addressed.

[VOA] Zinder, Niger -- The "loss and damage" fund agreed to last month at the COP27 climate conference aims for rich nations to help those that have borne the brunt of their global warming emissions. In Niger, climate change has fueled desertification and conflict as communities compete for dwindling resources.

[VOA] Kilimanjaro, Tanzania -- U.N. experts say the ice cap on Africa's biggest peak, Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, is among world-famous glaciers predicted to melt by 2050 due to climate change.

[Namibian] TWO bodies were recovered yesterday as Windhoek continued to count the devastating cost of the rainstorm that hammered the capital on Wednesday.

[GroundUp] West Coast fishers respond to TotalEnergies' plans to drill for oil and gas

[GhanaToday] The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, attended the first Forest and Climate Leaders' Partnership co-chair's meeting with US Secretary, John Kerry on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders' Summit, in Washington DC, USA.

[Egypt Online] Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker, received, 19-12-2022, Gareth Bayley, British Ambassador to Cairo, Martin Cave, director of the British Gas and Electricity Markets Office, and their accompanying delegation, discussing ways to support and enhance cooperation with the Egyptian electricity and renewable energy sector, as well as to increase investment opportunities in Egypt.

[UN News] The UN chief said on Monday he was determined to make 2023 "a year for peace" and a "year for action", highlighting the need for practical solutions to a raft of pressing problems facing all regions of the world.

[Premium Times] COP15 is expected to lead to the adoption of a new Global Biodiversity Framework, guiding actions worldwide through 2030, to preserve and protect our natural resources.

[MSF] A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile river, on it sits a family of eight people - the youngest just a baby.

[Africa Check] IN SHORT: There is plenty of evidence presented by countless scientists that global heating and climate change is destroying species, habitats, industries and, with extreme weather events, lives. Downplaying the climate emergency is dangerous.

[The Herald] Countries that are most vulnerable to climate change--and the associated loss of natural biodiversity--are often those least able to afford investment to strengthen resilience because their budgets are burdened by debt. Such countries face a high risk of fiscal crisis, IMF staff research shows.

[Govt of SA] Premier leads extended Cabinet meeting to further prepare for severe weather and load shedding-related risks

[GroundUp] Dry weather and habitat loss in the Western Cape are possibly making human encounters with these beautiful creatures more common

[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- When Mutondwa Phophi began undergraduate studies, she wanted to help alleviate the suffering of smallholder farmers from climate change-related impacts and destructive plant pests.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Deployment of Army at Power Stations a Sign of Greater Crisis?

[The Conversation Africa] Can our planet recover from climate change? Commissioning Editor, Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, asked scientists to share the reasons they believe there is hope.

[Africa Renewal] Loss and damage fund is welcome, need to look into mitigation and operationalization of the fund to support the most vulnerable

[IPS] New York -- The writer is Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP

[UN News] Climate change has driven an "unprecedented" number of larger and more deadly cholera outbreaks around the world this year, the UN health agency, WHO, said on Friday.