Dirty fuels are still popular in large parts of Africa. Wikimedia Commons Matthew Shupler, Harvard University; Dan Pope, University of Liverpool, and Elisa Puzzolo, University of Liverpool About 2.6 billion people – nearly half of the global population, most of them in Africa, Asia and central and south America – rely on biomass fuels, like […]
Cashew apples. VW Pics via Getty Images Agbaje Lateef, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso and Adeoye O. Adekunle (PhD), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso Nigeria – the sixth largest producer of cashew nuts globally – exports more than 80% of its raw cashews primarily to Vietman and India where they are processed into […]
Kigali, Rwanda//-Young leaders representing the 54 Commonwealth countries have presented a six-point action plan on youth development to Heads of Government gathered for a seminal meeting in Rwanda.
Crossing the Mediterranean has taken thousands of West African lives. Flickr Álvaro Enríquez de Salamanca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Throughout 2020, 23,023 irregular immigrants arrived on the coast of the Canary Islands, 757% more than the previous year. In 2021 the figure fell slightly to 22,316 people but it is still much higher than previous […]
Road traffic is one of the causes of air pollution in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Karn Vohra, UCL and Eloise Marais, UCL Ten more African cities have signed on to the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration to improve air quality. C40 is an international group of mayors collaborating to […]
Electric Cars being recharged in Paris. South Africa needs to subsidise entry level vehicles to boost sales. Photo by: Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, University of Johannesburg In the early 1900s, automobiles took the streets of industrialised cities by storm, rapidly displacing horse-drawn vehicles. Fiercely contested at first, the internal combustion engine […]
Climate change and natural disasters increasingly affect people’s well-being and development prospects. A recent World Bank study shows that climate change may cause 216 million people to migrate in their own country by 2050, and push as many as 132 million people into poverty by 2030.
Accra, Ghana//-To farmers and their families living in the Bono East Region in central Ghana, the Atebubu and Wiase Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Living Lab offers a more resilient food system, greater income and the opportunity to restore nature.
Wetlands in Accra have become popular targets for developers. Wikimedia Commons Christopher Gordon, University of Ghana Ghana has six designated Ramsar sites. These are wetlands designated under the criteria of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an international treaty that seeks to protect them. In Ghana, these sites are mainly along the coast and are meant […]
A globally coordinated approach is vital to end plastic pollution. That’s the message made by Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of the Global Plastic Policy Centre at the University of Portsmouth, to delegates at the first UNEP meeting to develop an international, legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution.
