Vol 64 No 18 | KENYACLIMATE CHANGE Nairobi vies for green capital status 7th September 2023 William Ruto advances his own, and Kenya's interests, but fails to pull in much climate finance from industrial economies Having spent much of the first year of his presidency staking out the ground as one of Africa's leading voices on climate change and energy policy, Kenya's William...
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 64 No 22 | CLIMATE CHANGESPECIAL REPORT Fight over control of loss and damage fund dominates pre-summit talks 31st October 2023 Key questions are whether the World Bank or the UN will control the new fund – and the cost of its loans | Special Report by Tim Concannon The schism between the west and developing economies over compensation for the damage caused by climate change is dominating preparatory talks ahead of the UN COP28 Climate summit... READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 13 | NIGERIACLIMATE CHANGE Back to the scene of the crime 25th June 2020 A plan to restart oil production in Ogoniland amid a failing environmental clean-up risks repeating all the mistakes of 25 years ago This week lawyers for the 40,000 people in the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta have been pressing their case in London's Supreme Court to hold... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 25 | AFRICACLIMATE CHANGE Adding up the real costs of the energy transition 16th December 2021 To achieve net zero emissions by 2050 will mean clean energy investments of $1-2 trillion a year in developing economies After a frustrating lack of progress on finance and mapping out a 'just transition' to renewable energy at the COP26 climate summit last month, African officials are preparing... READ FOR FREE