South Africa// — The African Energy Chamber (AEC) (https://EnergyChamber.org/) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with (B)energy, developer of the ccCASH initiative, to establish a continent-wide mechanism for clean cooking finance.
Category: Environment & Sustainability
From Record Warming to Rusting Rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card Shows a Region Transforming Faster Than Expected
As temperatures rise, the timing of the ice thaw changes. Vincent Denarie via Arctic Report Card Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder The Arctic is transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when […]
Emirates Launches New Collection of Keepsake Amenity Kits to Highlight Endangered Species
Dubai, UAE// — Emirates (www.Emirates.com) Premium Economy and Economy Class customers on long-haul flights globally will be treated to a new range of complimentary amenity kits on board in December.
From Shackles to Mercury: How Galamsey Mirrors and May Exceed the Devastation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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.
Reflections From COP30: Momentum is Stronger Than Formal Commitments Suggest
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.
Cooking up Change: How Financial Innovation Can Help Transform Lives
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]
New Research: Waste Burning Now the Biggest Threat to Ghana’s Air Quality Gains
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.
SDG Hangout 2: Participants Make Bold Climate Commitments
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.
Why Ghana Is Wasting Its Abundant Water Resources
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.
UN Applauds African Solidarity and Speed in Endorsing COP32 in Ethiopia
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.