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 | KENYACLIMATE CHANGE Calls grow to regulate ballooning carbon credits 17th June 2024 President William Ruto holds up carbon trading as his country’s next big export but climate activists want much tighter controls By elevating carbon credits to the top of the climate finance agenda President William Ruto has made Kenya a key player on environment policy in Africa. He has...
Vol 66 No 24 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGEG20 Johannesburg and Belém summits send defiant message to Trump 26th November 2025 Multilateralism survived and African leaders got some progress on debt, minerals and climate change at the G20 and the COP30 Winning a sort of victory in the teeth of United States opposition, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa rescued Africa’s first G20 on 22-23 November, pushing through a leaders’...
Vol 65 No 24 | UNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGE Cosplay at the COP29 – a climate finance summit without numbers 22nd November 2024 By failing to agree on a new cash target, the Baku delegates are acting in character but could break up the UN climate bargaining process The failure by delegates to agree on the core climate finance target at the Baku summit would risk a breakdown as serious as the collapse of the UN...
Vol 63 No 23 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGECOP27 Delegates haggle in Egypt as the planet burns 17th November 2022 African leaders argued for the continent's fossil fuels at the UN COP27 summit amid fierce debates over energy access and compensation for climate change That the UN's climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh has been popularised as the 'African COP' owes as much to the strong African focus of the negotiations as... READ FOR FREE