Addressing Climate Emergency in Africa: Balancing Global and Domestic Resources

By Tshepidi Moremong Climate finance has mostly focused on mitigation measures – new investments that will keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming. But as extreme weather events devastate countries and regions ever more frequently, there must be an equal focus on adaptation and resilience in dealing with the climate crisis that is unfolding…

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Targeted Policies Needed to Boost Investment in Climate Change Fight- UNCTAD

Attracting international private investment is crucial to closing financing gaps to better respond to countries’ specific needs in climate adaptation and mitigation. © Shutterstock/Michel luiz de Freitas | Policies to curb climate change through foreign direct investment have focused primarily on the renewable energy and electricity sectors. Ahead of the next UN climate change conference (COP27), UNCTAD…

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Accessible Climate Data Utility Recommmended by Global Organisations

The Utility would make climate transition-related data openly available in a single place for the first time and providing accurate, trusted, and verifiable data – a potential game-changer to enabling the delivery of a net-zero economy. September 21, 2022 – The Climate Data Steering Committee has unveiled recommendations on the design of a new open-data utility,…

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German Foreign Minister in Niger, Raises Alarm over Climate Change, Conflict

ISpeech by Federal Foreign Ministe Annalena Baerbock at Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey I’ve just come from Mali, with a group of German members of parliament. We met many very impressive people there – above all, many courageous women. There were three visiting the MINUSMA camp yesterday, an agriculture expert, an artist and a teacher. Different though…

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Nigeria Seeks Increased African Collaboration In Public Health Challenges, Climate Change

Nigeria has called for greater collaboration among Africans to effectively confront challenges such as climate change, public health, local vaccine production, among others. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said that President Muhammadu Buhari made the call on Wednesday in Abuja….

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