African leaders seek global taxes for climate change at Nairobi summit
1 year, 3 months ago

African leaders seek global taxes for climate change at Nairobi summit

Al Jazeera  

The Nairobi Declaration represents a united front for Africa before negotiations for more funding at COP28. African political and business leaders have adopted a declaration to address climate challenges in Africa on the final day of a major climate summit in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi The adoption – announced on Wednesday by the summit’s convener, Kenyan President William Ruto – proposes new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help fund climate change action in a declaration that will form the basis of their negotiating position at November’s COP28 summit. The Nairobi Declaration capped the three-day Africa Climate Summit which was dominated by discussions of how to mobilise financing to adapt to increasingly extreme weather, conserve natural resources and develop renewable energy. “Unlocking the renewable energy resources that we have in our continent is not only good for Africa, it is good for the rest of the world.” Funding for climate action Advocates have long called for rich carbon polluters to honour long-standing climate pledges for poorer and more vulnerable nations. “Heading from event to event doesn’t leave us with a lot of constructive thinking time” to bridge the gaps that still divide communities on the best ways to reduce emissions,” said Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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World leaders urged to fund anticipatory climate actions
1 month, 1 week ago

World leaders urged to fund anticipatory climate actions

China Daily  

A night view shows the venue of the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov 11, 2024. As global leaders convene for the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, an NGO has warned of increasing climate-driven disasters that are disproportionately affecting Africa. In a statement published on Monday, the IRC said …

South Africa Calls for Ambitious Climate Finance Goal at COP29
1 month, 2 weeks ago

South Africa Calls for Ambitious Climate Finance Goal at COP29

China Daily  

South Africa seeks a new, additional, predictable, accessible, and adequate (QGA) goal on climate finance at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. The goal should support developing countries' transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient development, while ensuring that developed countries provide adequate funding and technical assistance to support developing nations' climate efforts.

Greening Africa
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Greening Africa

China Daily  

WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY China's green cooperation with the continent will help address climate change and contribute to the construction of a high-quality community with a shared future With the highest concentration of developing countries, Africa is the continent that is most visibly affected by climate change, although African countries account for only about 4 percent of total global carbon emissions, …

Real solutions to climate change in Africa are about people, not profit
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Real solutions to climate change in Africa are about people, not profit

Al Jazeera  

The continent’s leaders should resist quick fixes and deadly traps offered by the market and bring the people at the centre of the climate action. At this year’s African Union Summit held on 17-18 February in Addis Ababa, African leaders adopted the Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change – a powerful show of unity in the face of a real threat …

Over 110 nations to join COP28 deal to triple renewable energy
1 year ago

Over 110 nations to join COP28 deal to triple renewable energy

Hindustan Times  

A pledge to triple the world's installed renewable energy by 2030 is poised to win support from more than 110 countries at the COP28 climate summit on Saturday, with some pushing to make the deal global by the end of the U.N. conference. Getting the deal into the final U.N. climate summit decision would also require consensus among the nearly …

What is Africa’s goal at COP28 as the climate summit begins?
1 year ago

What is Africa’s goal at COP28 as the climate summit begins?

Al Jazeera  

As the 28th edition of the Conference of the Parties, the world’s foremost climate summit, begins in the United Arab Emirates on November 30, Africa is grappling with some of the deadliest impacts of a heating planet. “Africa is vulnerable when oil prices crash, and that confirms what the activists are saying and whether we like it or not industry …

Mozambique to present new $80bn energy transition plan at COP28
1 year ago

Mozambique to present new $80bn energy transition plan at COP28

Al Jazeera  

President Nyusi is expected to officially present the energy strategy to the international community during COP28. Mozambique has approved an ambitious new energy transition plan until 2050, hoping to attract investments of some $80bn to boost renewable energy capacity and increase electricity availability, a senior energy official said on Monday. President Filipe Nyusi is expected to officially present the energy …

UN climate summit chief calls on countries to unite on ‘inevitable’ fossil fuel phase down
1 year, 1 month ago

UN climate summit chief calls on countries to unite on ‘inevitable’ fossil fuel phase down

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The United Arab Emirates president of Cop28 said on Monday he was aware countries had …

Africa seeks united front on climate
1 year, 3 months ago

Africa seeks united front on climate

China Daily  

Kenyan President William Ruto and African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki take photos with young representatives during the Africa Climate Summit at the Kenyatta International Convention Center in Nairobi on Wednesday. ANDREW KASUKU/GETTY IMAGES Continent can use natural resources to reverse warming crisis, analysts say Though Africa expects developed countries to honor their annual pledges for climate action in developing …

African leaders demand global carbon taxes, debt relief to effectively fight climate change
1 year, 3 months ago

African leaders demand global carbon taxes, debt relief to effectively fight climate change

Salon  

The three-day African Climate Summit concluded in Nairobi Wednesday as the continent's leaders announced their support for a global carbon tax regime — a tariff system they hope will disincentivize the fossil fuel use that is primarily causing global heating. The support for global carbon taxes was announced by Kenyan President William Ruto, who explained that the joint declaration among …

African Climate Summit issues unanimous call for world leaders to support global tax on fossil fuels
1 year, 3 months ago

African Climate Summit issues unanimous call for world leaders to support global tax on fossil fuels

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The first African Climate Summit ended with a call Wednesday for world leaders to rally behind a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation and maritime transport, and it seeks reform of the world financial system that forces African nations to pay more to borrow money. Adopted unanimously, the statement also calls for Africa’s vast mineral wealth …

Africa Climate Summit links ‘unfair’ debt burden with calls to make continent’s green assets pay off
1 year, 3 months ago

Africa Climate Summit links ‘unfair’ debt burden with calls to make continent’s green assets pay off

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, Kenya’s president declared Tuesday as the first Africa Climate Summit got underway. The U.S. government’s climate envoy, John Kerry, acknowledged the “acute, unfair debt.” He also said 17 of the world’s 20 countries …

Africa seeks more investment on climate
1 year, 3 months ago

Africa seeks more investment on climate

China Daily  

Workers pull a red carpet as they prepare the venue ahead of the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday. LUIS TATO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kenyan President William Ruto launched the inaugural three-day Africa Climate Summit on Monday in the capital Nairobi. Ruto, currently serving as chair of the African Heads of State and …

Africa 'pays high climate change cost', report finds
1 year, 3 months ago

Africa 'pays high climate change cost', report finds

China Daily  

Julius Okolong stands next to his house he was forced to abandon after rising waters from Lake Turkana, in Komote, near Loiyangalani, northern Kenya, on July 13, 2022. Countries in Africa are suffering disproportionately from the effects of climate change despite producing only a fraction of the world's greenhouse gases, a newly-published report from the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, …

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent of 1.3B demands more say and financing
1 year, 3 months ago

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent of 1.3B demands more say and financing

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The first African Climate Summit opened Monday with heads of state and others asserting a stronger voice on a worldwide issue that affects their continent the most even though its 1.3 billion people contribute to global warming the least. There are immense opportunities as well,” Ruto said of the climate crisis, speaking of multibillion-dollar economic possibilities, new …

Climate summit opens in Kenya as Africa demands more say and financing
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate summit opens in Kenya as Africa demands more say and financing

Al Jazeera  

African leaders are determined to wield more global influence and have the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters pay their fair share. There are immense opportunities as well,” Ruto said of the climate crisis, speaking of multibillion-dollar economic possibilities, new financial structures, Africa’s huge mineral wealth and the ideal of shared prosperity. “We are not here to catalogue grievances.” And yet …

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent demands more say and financing
1 year, 3 months ago

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent demands more say and financing

LA Times  

Protesters gather in downtown Nairobi to demand action on climate change as the Africa Climate Summit begins Monday. The first Africa Climate Summit opened Monday with heads of state and others asserting a stronger voice on a worldwide issue that affects their continent the most even though its 1.3 billion people contribute to global warming the least. There are immense …

As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared
1 year, 3 months ago

As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. The widespread inability to track and forecast the weather affects key development choices, their commentary said: “There is no point investing in smallholder farms, for example, if floods are simply going to wash them away.” Kenya, the host of the climate summit, is one of the few …

African Climate Summit: An opportunity to decolonise Africa’s energy
1 year, 3 months ago

African Climate Summit: An opportunity to decolonise Africa’s energy

Al Jazeera  

African leaders should use the gathering in Nairobi to chart the course for a renewable energy revolution that would deliver a sustainable future powered by clean energy. To us, that means a just and equitable energy transition for Africa, phasing out all fossil fuels and bringing an end to the exploitation of our land, resources and communities by Global North …

Africa faces ‘climate risk blind spot’ amid lack of weather radar
1 year, 3 months ago

Africa faces ‘climate risk blind spot’ amid lack of weather radar

Al Jazeera  

Vast expanse of the 54-nation continent is relatively unserved and unwarned with the least developed land-based weather observation network. “The continent, at large, is in a climate risk blind spot,” said Asaf Tzachor, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. “There is no point investing in smallholder farms, for example, if …

What to watch at Africa's first climate summit
1 year, 3 months ago

What to watch at Africa's first climate summit

The Hindu  

Financing and Africa's negotiating position in upcoming global talks will dominate the continent's first climate summit in Kenya next week. Summit organisers say the document will emphasise Africa's ability to provide climate solutions through its carbon sinks, including the Congo Basin, its availability of arable land, immense renewable energy potential and stocks of battery minerals. The ACMI was launched at …

UN calls for rapid, ambitious action to tackle climate crisis
1 year, 9 months ago

UN calls for rapid, ambitious action to tackle climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

IPCC’s world-leading scientists say resources and knowledge are sufficient to tackle the global climate crisis. The world has the tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure a sustainable future if more ambitious actions are taken, a United Nations report has said, noting that actions taken so far are not enough to tackle the growing threats posed by climate …

Editorial: U.N. climate fund will become a money pit if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels
2 years ago

Editorial: U.N. climate fund will become a money pit if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels

LA Times  

The United Nations climate summit in Egypt this month broke ground with a new agreement to compensate poor nations for the effects of global warming. Most countries are falling far short of their climate goals under the 2015 Paris agreement, and the world isn’t moving anywhere near fast enough to cut pollution and keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels. …

The Latest | UN Climate Summit
2 years, 1 month ago

The Latest | UN Climate Summit

Associated Press  

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The Latest on COP27, the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The group, known by the acronym BASIC, issued a joint statement at the U.N. climate talks Tuesday saying that “unilateral measures and discriminatory practices, such as carbon border taxes, that could result in market distortion and aggravate the trust deficit amongst parties, must …

African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
2 years, 1 month ago

African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change

The Hindu  

Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit. Mr. Shitima said the summit “should provide solutions to the millions of people in the continent,” adding that Africa …

African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
2 years, 1 month ago

African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, …

Biden calls for global action to combat climate crisis
2 years, 1 month ago

Biden calls for global action to combat climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

US president outlines steps US is taking against climate change, apologises for Trump withdrawal from Paris Agreement. US President Joe Biden has issued a call for global action to combat the climate crisis, which he called a threat to the “very life of the planet”. Speaking at the COP27 United Nations climate conference in Egypt on Friday, Biden announced new …

COP27 | Leaders push for climate action, fossil tax at U.N. talks
2 years, 1 month ago

COP27 | Leaders push for climate action, fossil tax at U.N. talks

The Hindu  

World leaders are making the case for tougher action to tackle global warming on November 8, 2022, as this year’s international climate talks in Egypt heard growing calls for fossil fuel companies to help pay for the damage they have helped cause to the planet. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned on November 7, 2022 that humanity was on “a …

Africa hopeful as COP27 starts
2 years, 1 month ago

Africa hopeful as COP27 starts

China Daily  

Continent a minimal polluter but hugely impacted by warming and wants action Participants and delegates work in the Africa pavilion at the Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, the first day of the United Nations climate change conference, or COP27. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP African climate change campaigners are optimistic that the …

What’s at stake for COP27 climate talks in Egypt?
2 years, 1 month ago

What’s at stake for COP27 climate talks in Egypt?

Al Jazeera  

Developing countries experiencing the worst effects of climate change will aim to obtain financial help from rich nations responsible for the biggest share of emissions. The Conference of the Parties is the supreme decision-making forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international environmental treaty signed by 198 countries and which came into force in 1994 to …

After six years, U.N. climate summit returns to Africa
2 years, 1 month ago

After six years, U.N. climate summit returns to Africa

The Hindu  

The U.N. climate summit is back in Africa after six years and four consecutive Europe-based conferences. Hosts Egypt say the meeting represents a unique opportunity for Africa to align climate change goals with the continent’s other aims, like improving living standards and making countries more resilient to weather extremes. Mithika Mwenda, who heads the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, told …

Will COP27 address Africa’s climate challenges?
2 years, 1 month ago

Will COP27 address Africa’s climate challenges?

Al Jazeera  

On Wednesday, November 2 at 19:30 GMT: Although Africa has contributed the least to global carbon emissions, the continent remains the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and African needs for climate finance and adaptation are among the greatest. There are high expectations that this year’s UN climate conference, hosted in Sharm El-Sheikh, will focus on how to …

African nations to finalize aims ahead of UN climate summit
2 years, 2 months ago

African nations to finalize aims ahead of UN climate summit

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The final meeting of African …

Poor nations to demand climate justice, finance at UN summit
2 years, 2 months ago

Poor nations to demand climate justice, finance at UN summit

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda. Madeleine Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group, told The Associated Press that the November conference — known as COP27 — …

African nations urged to pile on pressure at climate summit
2 years, 3 months ago

African nations urged to pile on pressure at climate summit

Associated Press  

MOMBASA, Kenya — The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda. Mary Robinson, who is also chair of the Elders group of global leaders who advocate for peace and justice, told The Associated Press on Monday that …

As Africa's climate warms, rich countries pledge more funds
2 years, 3 months ago

As Africa's climate warms, rich countries pledge more funds

The Independent  

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Africa urged to propose action on climate at conference
2 years, 3 months ago

Africa urged to propose action on climate at conference

Associated Press  

MOMBASA, Kenya — Africa’s nations must develop strategies to address climate change which poses an existential threat to the continent’s megacities, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said at the third Africa Climate Week conference. The African climate week comes as the continent reels by several extreme weather events such as drought in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, sandstorms …

Africa urged to propose action on climate at conference
2 years, 3 months ago

Africa urged to propose action on climate at conference

The Independent  

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Five things to know for Africa Climate Week
2 years, 3 months ago

Five things to know for Africa Climate Week

Al Jazeera  

Facing deadly drought, historic floods, and extreme weather events, African politicians, civil society, and business leaders will voice calls for urgent action. The United Nations’ Africa Climate Week begins on Monday in Libreville, Gabon, with more than 1,000 participants expected to tackle the climate emergency as it intensifies throughout the continent. With severe drought, raging floods, and extreme weather bearing …

For clean energy, financial growth, Africa looks to UN talks
2 years, 4 months ago

For clean energy, financial growth, Africa looks to UN talks

Associated Press  

MOMBASA, Kenya — In Kenya’s semi-arid Makueni County, 50-year-old Purity Kinyili used to spend most of her time traveling for water and firewood to sustain her family and farmland. Because how do you transform without capacity, finance and technology?” Nyambe added that that getting the right financial support at the U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, can help kickstart Africa’s …

Egypt promises to allow protest, push pledges as COP27 host
2 years, 7 months ago

Egypt promises to allow protest, push pledges as COP27 host

Associated Press  

DAVOS, Switzerland — Egypt, host of the next United Nations summit on climate change, will push countries to make good on their pledges to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate “non-adversarial” talks on compensation to developing countries for global warming impacts and allow climate activists to protest, said the incoming president of COP27. In an interview Monday with The Associated …

Editorial: Climate catastrophe is already here. What will it take for the world to act?
2 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: Climate catastrophe is already here. What will it take for the world to act?

LA Times  

A new United Nations report blares dire warnings of the escalating effects of climate change: Our planet is no longer on the brink of catastrophe; the catastrophe is well underway. In a sweeping assessment released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists from across the globe found that climate change is causing “dangerous and widespread disruption” to billions …

COP26: All you need to know about the climate change summit
3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: All you need to know about the climate change summit

Live Mint  

Delayed by a year due to covid-19, the crucial international climate summit, the COP26, gets underway today at Glasgow, Scotland. Billed as a make-or-break summit, what’s at stake here is the global effort to halt climate change by formulating a pathway to halt planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. The politics of climate negotiations Many developed nations including the US, UK, the …

Kenya’s president Kenyatta: Africa is at a crossroads
3 years, 1 month ago

Kenya’s president Kenyatta: Africa is at a crossroads

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said Thursday that Africa is at a crossroads, poised on one hand to reap the economic benefits of its youthful population and economic reforms but facing the spread of terrorism and insurgency on the other that are challenging almost all 54 nations on the continent. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also cited “worrying trends” …

Africa actually has a few glaciers. But probably not for much longer
3 years, 2 months ago

Africa actually has a few glaciers. But probably not for much longer

LA Times  

Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report has warned, amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the inhabited continent that contributes least to global warming but that will likely suffer from it most. The report Tuesday by the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies, released ahead of the United Nations climate …

IPCC findings on Africa reinforced by wildfires in Algeria and Tunisia
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC findings on Africa reinforced by wildfires in Algeria and Tunisia

The Hindu  

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report outlines the severity of the global climate crisis. "With extreme weather everywhere, climate change is now a global reality… in Africa, climate change is no longer a threat but a reality,” she told DW. "So, if you compare this report with previous reports, in a way this report is very precise that …

'We Need a Green Planet, But The World is on Red Alert': UN Chief at Climate Summit
3 years, 8 months ago

'We Need a Green Planet, But The World is on Red Alert': UN Chief at Climate Summit

News 18  

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the world leaders to put a price on carbon, end subsidies for fossil fuels and stop financing of coal and building of new coal power plants as he sounded alarm that the "the world is on red alert." Speaking at the Leaders' Summit on Climate convened by US President Joe Biden on Thursday, …

World leaders shine spotlight on ‘neglected’ topic of climate adaptation at summit
3 years, 10 months ago

World leaders shine spotlight on ‘neglected’ topic of climate adaptation at summit

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Speaking at the opening of the Climate Adaptation Summit, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said that there were “huge gaps” …

A manifesto for the climate summit
4 years ago

A manifesto for the climate summit

Hindustan Times  

The year 2020 teaches us that “super shocks” do not just come and go; they transform our ways of life. If we could earn cents for every climate speech made, we would all be rich and resilient by now The United Nations Secretary-General said, recently, “Our planet is broken”. To that end, four kinds of announcements are expected: Upgraded Nationally …

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