Vol 65 No 7 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGE Anger as Geneva wins Fund fight 28th March 2024 African officials and climate activists want to reverse the decision to host the Loss and Damage advisory network in Geneva instead of Nairobi. They met in Lilongwe, Malawi,...
Vol 65 No 13 | AFRICACLIMATE CHANGE Stalemate on climate finance talks irks African negotiators 19th June 2024 After technical negotiations over green transition funds in Bonn hit a deadlock, talks are to resume at the UN General Assembly in September Despite hopes of progress on climate finance for Africa at recent UN negotiations, an impasse emerged at the interim SB60 meeting held in Bonn, Germany from 3 to...
Vol 63 No 22 | CLIMATE CHANGECOP27 Climate of scepticism 3rd November 2022 Expectations are low ahead of next week's COP27 climate change summit in Sharm el Sheikh. Although the African Union common position has moved away from an early draft...
Vol 66 No 17 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGE ICJ climate ruling opens floodgates for billions in pollution payouts 22nd August 2025 The UN court’s opinion defining greenhouse gas emissions as ‘internationally wrongful acts’ argues for climate finance to become a legal obligation for the main polluting countries The ruling by the UN’s top court that countries may be held legally accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental damage they cause could help reshape...
Vol 65 No 23 | CLIMATE CHANGE High stakes but low ambitions at Baku’s geopolitical climate summit 13th November 2024 Africa’s bargaining chips at COP29 are ‘green ores’, and trading its forests, grasslands and shorelines as carbon sinks After a year of weather disasters and the hottest average temperatures on record, cash will dominate negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP29) climate summit from...