COP27: Unlocking the sticky climate finance for developing nations
As the UN climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, near the official end – of Friday, the 18th – climate finance and financing loss, damage …
COP27: Not the solution to the global climate crisis?.
Ahead of the 27th UN climate summit (COP27), the youth and other groups have called on world leaders to urgently cut down their emissions to limit …
Historic floods Mozambique’s Nightmare 20 years on.
CHOKWE (Mozambique) Twenty-two years on, scars of Mozambique’s worst floods still haunt Gilda Muhate, a 60-year-old widow living with her five grandchildren. Their parents died in …
Timely weather texts rescues Kenyan farmers.
Traditional weather forecasting was relied upon to determine when famers would plant in many African communities. Still amang communities it remains the most accessible and …
Endorois women in Kenya rally villagers to save community swamp.
Bogoria Kenya:In the 1970s, the Endorois community lost their grazing ground when Lake Baringo was registered as a national reserve. The Endorois community a Kenyan …
It is time Africa rethinks air pollution funding.
Africa attracted about five percent of development funding and less than four percent of philanthropy funding to fight air pollution between 2015 – 2020 according …
Why are air pollution policies not translating into actions?
Dr Alice Kaudia, the former Environment Secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya says policies are not translating into action. why? …
Adaptation facing Resistance at Glasgow.
Adaptation that has consistently lagged is being undermined at Glasgow says Mariam Allam, the Adviser to the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) …
Trailer: Climate Change impacts on Mental Health.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said that 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on record, in a persistent long-term climate change trend. 2016, 2019, and …
Adaptation: Why it’s critical for Africa.
Flooding, droughts, landslides, and cyclones are becoming intense and more frequent. Adaptation offers an alternative solution in addressing these climate change impacts affecting communities, and …
In pursuit of the soybean promise
By Anthony Langat, Mumias Kenya, In 2010, when Kemba Wangoli lost his father, a clerical officer at Mumias Sugar Company, taking care of his siblings …
Indigenous knowledge: authentic, sustainable, and the future
As global temperatures rise, smallholders’ farmers in Africa struggle with the feeling of uncertainty. A season, the rains may delay, the next they receive flash …