Countries must supercharge international collaboration on technologies and markets for sectors such as power, transport, industry, buildings and agriculture, new report finds.
An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage.
New York, 13 September 2023 -- A groundbreaking report by a group of independent experts released today by the United Nations outlines steps governments should take to maximize the impact of policies…
The SDG Summit on 18 to 19 September will be a defining moment for Heads of State and Government to deliver the bold commitments needed to urgently put the world back on track to achieving the…
As the curtains come down on the Africa Climate Summit 2023, the question is whether the climate traps identified by heads of state will undo decades of development efforts.
The landmark meeting,…
Launched in 2002, the African Union (AU) is an intergovernmental organisation of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. What are some its accomplishments and what can be the upshot of…
A G20 Communique drafts circulating has raised concerns on whether the G20 will provide clear goals on a peaking year for emissions globally
New Delhi: A leaked draft of the paragraphs on climate…
The climate crisis and emerging El Niño event pushed up temperatures and drove extreme weather across the world
The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, as the climate crisis and emerging …
African leaders are eyeing a new “sin” tax on global emitters as a way of raising money from those who pollute the environment.
The Nairobi Declaration – the culmination of the three-day Africa…
In addition to the Nairobi Declaration, the African Climate Summit, which closed in Kenya on 6 September 2023, provided an opportunity to strengthen inter-state relations, particularly in the water…
As oil and gas projects proliferate in Africa, the continent's heads of state and government, meeting recently in Nairobi, Kenya, for the first African Climate Summit, are proposing a tenfold…
To improve the supply of drinking water to people in the northern province of Niassa in Mozambique, the government is launching phase II of the Project to promote sustainable water supply, hygiene…
In South Africa, Rand Water is completing the first phase of work on its new drinking water plant, located near the Zuikerbosch water treatment plant in Gauteng province. At this stage, the plant has…
The Djibouti authorities recently inaugurated the country's first onshore wind farm near Ghoubet Bay. The facility, built under a public-private partnership (PPP), has a capacity of 60 MW.
Djibouti…
With Africa in need of more than $300 billion a year for climate adaptation, policymakers and government officials gathered at a high-level event on the sidelines of the African Climate Summit in…
The 2023 survey report on elephants in the Kavango-Zambèze Transfrontier Area (KAZA) shows that elephant populations there are stable. In this region of southern Africa, which includes Angola,…
What does the future hold for tourism in Marrakech? This is one of the unanswered questions in the wake of the earthquake that is compromising the economic and environmental health of this…
Months after it was put up for auction, Platinum Rhino was finally bought out at the last minute by the conservation organisation African Parks. But the fate of the world's largest white rhino farm…
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