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Climate

This beat covers the effects of climate change on people and the planet, and individual and collective climate actions to mitigate and adapt to its impacts.

Modou Fall campaigns for a Senegal free of single use plastic.
Climate

The ‘Plastic Man’: Turning trash into treasure

plasticSocial Protection Modou Fall does more than recycling, he campaigns for a cleaner and greener future.
A bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali.
Climate

Floods and droughts are two sides of the same crisis

Climate action Wetlands can fix both.
Ebaide Quincee Omiunu is one of the young African women attending the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN headquarters in New York.
Climate

Beijing+30: Women can drive positive change in Africa

Social Protection — says Nigerian SDG Advocate, Ebaide Quincee Omiunu.
Electronic waste.
Climate

Lead poisoning: the persistent threat from mismanaged waste

WHO In excess amounts, lead can contaminate food sources, harm biodiversity, and cause severe neurological impairments in humans, especially in children.

Editor Picks

Samuel Jepi, National Forest Initiative, outside of the NFI camp near Kupiano, Papua New Guinea. May 23, 2019
Climate

Creating credible carbon market in Africa

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Climate

Restoring landscapes, fighting climate change

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Climate

Transforming Africa’s Food Systems: the challenges and opportunities

A motor bike rider in Nairobi, October 19, 2022, next to an electric bus
Climate

Energy: Africa’s stand at COP27

UNDP: More spent on fossil fuel subsidies than fighting poverty

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The new 'Don’t Choose Extinction' campaign aims to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of fossil fuel subsidies on people and planet

A New Perspective on the Journey to Net-zero:

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed at the TED Countdown to COP26.

António Guterres

The Glasgow Climate Test

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Women under a tree.

It’s Climate Week for Africa

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View of Kilimanjaro from Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Triple planetary crisis, green recovery top agenda at African Ministerial Conference on the Environment

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Rondrotiana Barimalala

“Extreme weather events will be the new normal if global warming increases at current speed”

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— Rondrotiana Barimalala, climate change researcher and contributing author to IPCC Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, on what it means for Africa.

A wildfire burns in a national park in Oregon, USA.

IPCC report: 'Code red' for human driven global heating, warns UN chief

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The report highlights that human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at least the last 2,000 years.

Damilola Ogunbiyi

Energy will play a critical role in the success of Africa’s free trade area

—Damilola Ogunbiyi, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All.

A woman walking through fields in Mali.

COP26 on climate: Top priorities for Africa

— Mr. Tanguy Gahouma-Bekale, Chair, African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change.

Gabon becomes the first African country to receive payment for reducing CO2 emissions

Joyce Msuya

Science has spoken, we must keep our foot on the environmental pedal

World Environment Day— UNEP Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya
António Guterres

Climate Action for people and planet: The time is now

This Earth Day and over the crucial months ahead, let’s rise together to this moment.