History remembers the Transatlantic Slave Trade as one of humanity’s darkest chapters. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, Africa was violently drained of millions of its people, shipped across oceans in chains, and reduced to a source of forced labour for foreign prosperity.
Leaders gathered last month for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on the edge of the Amazon forest, just steps from rivers that form part of the Amazon Delta.
More than 2 billion people, many of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, still lack access to clean cooking fuels and technologies. This lack of access has huge implications for health, gender equality, and the environment.[1]
Ghana’s hard-won progress in reducing air pollution is being quietly reversed, not by traffic or household fuels, but by the growing menace of waste burning.
Accra, Ghana//-Participants at the second edition of the SDG Hangout have made bold climate commitments during the Impact Bowl Pledge Session and added their signatures to the Climate Action Signing Wall.
Accra, Ghana//-The availability of water resources in Ghana has never been in doubt. But its management of these abundant resources is not the best.
Belem, Brazil//-The COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil, showed that climate cooperation is producing results that matter for people’s lives, with real benefits across African nations. 194 countries representing billions of people have said in one voice that the Paris Agreement on climate change is working, and resolved to make it go further and faster.
Johannesburg, South Africa// — Africa’s long-delayed transition to clean cooking will fail without a serious overhaul of how the continent finances, transports, and regulates LPG, senior executives said during a high-level panel on clean cooking and LPG at the G20 Africa Energy Investment Forum in Johannesburg on Friday.
Accra, Ghana//-The Strengthening Investments in Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation (SIGRA) project, a Canadian-funded project, has called on Ghana’s government to allocate more funding to climate adaptation in the country.
Belem, Brazil// — 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) President André Corrêa do Lago has said this year’s conference must put “people at the centre” of climate action. But a network of fragile states says more than one billion of the world’s most at-risk people are still being left out of the conversation.
