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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.

Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) hosts a meeting on Climate and Just Transition convened with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (not pictured), President of Brazil.
Climate

Ahead of COP30, Guterres urges bold climate action and investment

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls on world leaders to commit to ambitious climate action and significantly increase investment in renewables in Africa.
Gola Rainforest spans the border between Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Conserving Gola forest: Sierra Leone and Liberia unite for peace, sustainability

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.

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Samuel Jepi, National Forest Initiative, outside of the NFI camp near Kupiano, Papua New Guinea. May 23, 2019
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Creating credible carbon market in Africa

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Restoring landscapes, fighting climate change

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Transforming Africa’s Food Systems: the challenges and opportunities

A motor bike rider in Nairobi, October 19, 2022, next to an electric bus
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Energy: Africa’s stand at COP27

Victorin Laboudallon provides a tour of his tree nursery.

Forests and passion: a hero’s guide to resisting climate change

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Man in field with cattle.

Balancing climate, conflict and community in Kenya

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Hyginus Laari Credit at the African Youth SDG Summit. Photo by African Youth SDG Summit

A novel use for rice husks in Ghana

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Members of the Samburu tribe in Kenya. Samburu women pastoralists are affected by climate change.   Getty Images /Kitra Cahana

Women pastoralists feel the heat of climate change

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Faced with the harsh effects of erratic weather patterns, some Kenyan women livestock farmers call for help

—Joyce Msuya, United Nations Environment Programme’s Deputy Executive Director

Pushing for a green economy & clean energy

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—Joyce Msuya, United Nations Environment Programme’s Deputy Executive Director

A student holding an SDG badge (top). Students holding vegetables from the school garden (left). Brian (WEYE Clean Energy) displays a bag of briquettes (right). Photo: Solomon Musisi

Ugandan students turn waste to wealth

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St. Kizito High School students earn money from recycling

Bamboo bikes on display.

Young Africans create green businesses

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The youth are the driving force for action on climate and the environment.

Claimant Eric Dooh shows the crude oil that has damaged the banks of the creek through his village in Ogoniland, Nigeria.

Countries propose a treaty to end corporate impunity

If adopted, companies will be held accountable for human rights and environmental violation

Aerial view of Mozambique affected by floods due to the tropical cyclone Idai

‘Break the cycle’ of disaster-response-recovery, urges top UN official, as death toll mounts from Cyclone Idai

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Farmers planting during a rainy season in Dali, North Darfur, Sudan. Photo: UN Photo / Albert Farran

Global warming: severe consequences for Africa

New report projects greater temperature increases

Blue economy can be a lifeline for Africa

Sustainable exploitation of the oceans, lakes, rivers will increase countries’ earnings

A woman walks through a village in Chad. Photo: Naomi Frerotte

Africa’s Sahel must be a top priority for UN peacebuilding efforts, says commission

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