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.
Accra, Ghana//-The Chief Corporate Services and Sustainability Officer of MTN Ghana, Madam Adwoa Wife, has called on the government as a matter of urgency to set up a comprehensive national sustainability policy in the country.
Juba, South Sudan// — A new climate resilience schools programme launched in South Sudan will help more than 200,000 school children to get an education as the country battles repeated floods, droughts and heatwaves, Save the Children said.
Belem, BRAZIL – Millions of refugees, people forced to flee, and their hosts are trapped in an increasingly vicious cycle of conflict and climate extremes, according to a new report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia// — The African Union Commission (AUC), through its Directorate of Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy, officially opened the Inaugural Africa Biodiversity Summit at the Royal Aria Convention Centre in Gaborone, Botswana.
London, Houston, Singapore// – Surging power demand and mounting geopolitical tensions have made 2050 net zero goals unattainable, with the world now on track for 2.6°C of global warming, according to Wood Mackenzie’s ‘Energy Transition Outlook 2025-2026‘ report.
Lagos, Nigeria// — Across Nigeria’s bustling cities and growing peri-urban communities, the signs of progress are everywhere – expanding markets, rising consumption, and a youthful population driving demand.
Washington D.C., United States of America// — The Congo Basin, home to the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, holds immense value for not only the six countries it spans, but for the planet.
