Climate change in Africa News

[OCHA] UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has pre-arranged US$5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support an anticipatory action* initiative for floods in Nigeria. The funding will be released if forecasts predict a major flood emergency.

[OCHA] UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has released US$5 million from the Central Emergency Fund (CERF) for anticipatory action* to floods in Nigeria.

[Ghanaian Times] The Green Revolution Innovative Thinkers Ghana (GRITG), a non-profit organisation, has urged for collective and concerted efforts in dealing with climate change effects on the country's socio-economic development.

[savethechildren_uk] AXA XL is providing a grant of $1.2 million to Save the Children for a five-year initiative to mitigate the impact of climate change across coastal ecosystems in Sierra Leone.

[The Herald] Our environmental heritage is in the grip of an urgent and unprecedented crisis.

[IPS] The global commitment to fair climate finance is at a crossroads. COP29 concluded with a disappointing New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), leaving developing nations at risk of being left behind. With the U.S. withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and slashing development aid, prospects for more ambitious fair climate finance are getting out of sight.

[This Day] In a continued effort to respond swiftly to the urgent challenges posed by climate change and its impacts on vulnerable countries across the globe, the Secretariats of the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) have entered into a framework for cooperation.

[This Day] Abuja -- ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for climate justice and the cancellation of Nigeria's foreign debt as well as that of other African countries to appease the damage done by global emission.

[IPS] Windhoek, Namibia -- Communities in the Kavango West region of northern Namibia have firsthand experience of the severe impacts of climate change. The dry, cracked soil and emaciated livestock provide a constant reminder of the lack of access to water in this part of the country.

[TI] In 2024, the Sub-Saharan African region once again registered the lowest average score on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), at just 33 out of 100, with 90 per cent of countries scoring below 50. Yet amid this very low annual performance, there were African countries that invested in anti-corruption and made remarkable progress.

[TI] Every year, corporations and governments spend more than a trillion dollars on global climate finance, but this is only a fraction of what the UN estimates is needed to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. These funds, however, remain highly vulnerable to corruption, which drains resources meant to reduce emissions and protect communities impacted by climate change. Where corruption thrives, climate action often fails, and theft is only one of the reasons. Corruption obstructs effective climate

[SANF] The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands will hold its 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Victoria Falls this year, hosted by Zimbabwe.

[The Conversation Africa] Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions for a rise in modern slavery.

[Ethiopian Herald] The Paris Agreement is an international convention intended to address climate change and its consequences. It was adopted on December 12, 2015, at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris, France. The agreement came into effect on November 4, 2016.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has convened a Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting for Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya on Wednesday next week.

[IPS] Washington DC -- For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", meaning best, and "kratia," meaning power. As a result of long and hard-fought democratic struggles, these aristocracies have largely dwindled worldwide (albeit, not everywhere).

[IPS] United Nations -- Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition and hunger. It has become increasingly apparent that the utilization of sustainable agriculture practices and disaster risk management systems are crucial to fulfill growing needs as natural resources continue to dwindle.

[Nile Post] As the world prepares for COP 30 in Brazil, the global climate target of limiting warming to 1.5°C remains elusive, with current global temperatures already rising by 3°C.

[Namibian] Prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila yesterday revealed that 1.4 million people are benefiting from drought relief programmes.

[UN News] The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate Service