Activists hold placards during a climate change protest in Kenya. James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Victor Ongoma, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique and Portia Adade Williams, CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute The 26th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties, popularly known as COP26, is happening at […]
Accra, Ghana// – The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.
Accra, Ghana//-The President of World Bank Group, David Malpass says the Bank is willing to support Ghana and other Sub-Saharan African countries to fully take advantage of opportunities presented by climate change and to support climate private sector investment.
From electric cars and buses to zero-carbon producing energy sources, new and emerging technologies along with innovative policy changes, are critical for combating climate change.
A marine mammal suspected to be a whale has been washed ashore the coast of Nkotompo, a suburb of Sekondi, in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region.
Dead animal carcasses lie outside of the village of Dambas in Kenya during a drought in 2006. Chris Jackson/Getty Images Chris Funk, University of California Santa Barbara Every few years, it is devastating to watch the same tragedy: a weather cycle that brings debilitating drought and hunger to East Africa, threatening the lives and livelihoods […]
Yaw Odoom has had enough horrid experience, inhaling smoke from vehicles. One day, he began flooding his Facebook wall with his daily experiences- trauma and discomfort, about public transport services in Ghana’s capital, Accra.
Abidjan, Ivory Coast//-The fourth edition of the Africa Resilience Forum opened on Tuesday, as the continent’s most vulnerable communities confront the triple challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change.
Africa is at a crossroads. As one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability, it has a strong incentive to join global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and bolster its adaptive capacity.
Africa’s world-first environmental data collection initiative bears fruit In the midst of a very busy news cycle, a quiet revolution has taken place in Africa. Data analysts across the continent have collected data on agriculture, land and the environment and for the first time we have a full picture of land use in Africa. It […]
