Climate change in Africa News

[263Chat] Less than 3% of global climate finance is supporting approaches that protect workers, women, and communities during the shift to greener economies, according to a new report by ActionAid.

[Premium Times] VP Shettima says Nigeria is taking steps to restore climate, nature, and development balance with $3bn financing.

[263Chat] Tafara 5 Council Primary School in Mabvuku became the latest hub for the Green the Ghetto urban greening movement after hosting a lively tree-planting event and the official launch of the Mabvuku Chapter yesterday.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) have unveiled two Mitigation Action Facility-funded projects to advance Kenya's climate targets and sustainable development agenda: a nationwide rollout of solar-powered cold storage and an initiative to electrify two- and three-wheelers.

[Leadership] Nigeria's Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has charged world leaders to move beyond pledging to performance, and from dialogue to taking reasonable action in tackling climate change and its attendant natural disasters that have claimed innocent lives and rendered many homeless across the globe.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Roberto Albino believes that the most polluting economies should formally be pressured to increase funding and technical support for the most vulnerable countries in matters of climate change.

[UN News] Tropical forests, vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, are vanishing at an alarming rate. On Thursday, in a bid to help reverse this trend, Brazil launched a new initiative at a summit of world leaders in Belém, the gateway to the Amazon.

[The Conversation Africa] Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees", because their branches look like roots reaching skywards. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are confined to Madagascar, one to northern Australia and one species, Adansonia digitata, is found across the savannah regions of continental Africa.

[Crop Trust] Genebanks and global cooperation deliver versatile, climate-resilient solutions for farmers

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Public Works has called for integrated and strengthened measures to manage river basins in order to address effectively drought, climate change and pollution.

[Health-e] Three years ago, Zibuyile Ntuli's life turned upside down. In April 2022 she lost her home and six of her immediate family in one fell swoop when KwaZulu-Natal experienced some of the worst flooding on record. Close to 500 people lost their lives, over 4000 homes were destroyed, and 40 000 people were left homeless.

[UN News] Decades of progress in protecting the planet's carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to accelerate, UN forestry experts said on Wednesday.

[Nile Post] When the controversy over Nakivubo Channel erupted in August this year--after businessman Hamis Kiggundu began constructing over the city's main drainage channel--Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago stood out as one of the few public officials who dared to speak up.

[The Conversation Africa] Children and young adults are very much involved in campaigning against the climate change that older generations have caused. The global youth climate justice movement uses protests, strikes and court cases to block fossil fuel expansion. But do they have any say in what their governments do to address climate change, or a voice at the annual COP climate change conferences, where the world's leaders make important climate decisions? Research by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and

[Vanguard] As Nigeria grapples with food insecurity, declining soil fertility, and the mounting impact of climate change, a new wave of sustainable agriculture practices is emerging through public-private collaboration. One example is MAGGI's Regenerative Agriculture (RegenAg) initiative, which is supporting thousands of local soybean farmers to adopt climate-smart practices and improve productivity.

[New Zimbabwe] The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has forecast a normal to above-normal rainfall season across most parts of Zimbabwe for the 2025-2026 farming period.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment warns that the world is still far from meeting the Paris Agreement goals, with global warming projections showing only marginal improvement despite new national pledges -- leaving the planet on course for a dangerous escalation in climate risks.

[Oxfam] In response to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report published today, Nafkote Dabi, Climate Policy Lead at Oxfam, said:

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Professor Makane Mbengue, the African Union's External Counsel at the International Court of Justice, underscored that African states' rights and duties in the fight against global warming can no longer be treated as mere political aspirations.

[World Bank] Nairobi -- An estimated 123,000 households (about 738,000 Somalis), will receive regular and emergency cash transfers, youth employment support, and conditional cash for health and education, after the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the Building Opportunities and Outcomes in Social Protection and Youth Employment Project (BOOST-You).