By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — China is one of the main funders of renewable-energy projects in Africa. At last year’s China-Africa Cooperation forum, Beijing committed to ramping up investments in solar, wind, and other renewables across the continent and has made no overseas coal power investments since 2021. It is […]
Funders Commit to Restoring African Forests
But Is Philanthropy the Way to Go? By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A coalition of climate philanthropies, governments, technical support providers and others, responding to an urgent call by African leaders for environmental funding, has pledged close to $2 billion to help protect carbon reserves and biodiversity.
A New Initiative Seeks to Transform Agriculture & Food Systems
By Bernhard Schell SHARM EL-SHEIKH (IDN) — The Egyptian Presidency of the UN Climate Conference COP27 has launched a new initiative Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation or FAST, to improve the quantity and quality of climate finance contributions to transform agriculture and food systems by 2030. The cooperation programme will have concrete deliverables for […]
Indigenous Societies Draw Focus of the Arctic Circle Assembly
By Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK (IDN) — The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth’s ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies. Reykjavik—capital of […]
COP27: Leaders Launch Global Alliance Against Future Drought Impacts
By Rita Joshi BONN | SHARM EL-SHEIKH (IDN) — Leaders from over 25 countries and 20 organizations have launched the International Drought Resilience Alliance to accelerate action and help countries to be better prepared for future droughts. Drought represents the most serious hazard to livestock and crops in nearly every part of the world, and […]
COP 27: The World’s Rich Urged to Pay Reparations for Climate Damage
By Kalinga Seneviratne SINGAPORE (IDN) — At COP 27 in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, the Global South led by Asia and the South Pacific (as well as Africa) are demanding that nature rights and climatic justice be recognized as a human right and COP (Conference of Parties) process go beyond pledges […]
COP27: A Win for Loss and Damage
By Busani Bafana SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (IDN) — After much horse-trading, loss and damage is on the agenda at the COP27 raising expectations of an agreement for funding to promote resilience and address longer-term impacts of climate change. For the first time since the adoption of the UN climate convention, the contentious issue of loss […]
As Die-Off of Kenyan Wildlife Spikes, No End Seen to Punishing Drought
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI (IDN) — A new report titled “Impacts of the current drought on wildlife in Kenya” by Wildlife Research and Training Institute gives a devastating picture of the high mortality of wildlife across the East African nation whose animal kingdom has been the backbone of tourism […]
UN Climate Panel Warns of Sea ‘Swallowing’ Alexandria and Other Historic Cities
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — The Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is brimming with delegates, organizers and observers – here to take part in the UN Climate Conference, better known by its acronym “COP27” (Conference of the Parties). This year’s conference will be an “African COP” where the positions […]
Egyptian Civil Rights Activists View COP27 as a Carefully Managed Theatre
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | SHARM EL-SHEIKH (IDN) — Some civil rights activists suspect this year’s UN climate conference, held in a country reputed for holding thousands of political prisoners, will give the host country a great opportunity to remake its image and position itself as the voice for the Global […]