The European Commission on Wednesday (21 April) unveiled a first batch of implementing rules under the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy, spelling out detailed technical criteria that companies need…
The World Bank Group’s MIGA has issued guarantees of up to $37.1 million to the African Infrastructure Investment Fund 3 (AIIF3) to cover the fund’s equity and quasi-equity/shareholder loan…
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has closed the country’s only wild rhino sanctuary to the public amid an ongoing dispute between the owners of the land and Rhino Fund Uganda - the organisation…
ReconAfrica believes the Kavango Basin in Namibia and Botswana could generate billions of barrels of oil, but environmentalists and Indigenous leaders want the area to remain untouched.
Windhoek,…
As teenage pregnancies soared during coronavirus lockdowns in Africa's largest urban slum, Kibera, teachers and parents looked for a way to reduce the problem.
Their idea was to form a women's…
(CNN)A rare tropical cyclone is approaching Tanzania and could become the first cyclone to make landfall in the nation in modern records.
Tropical Cyclone Jobo, located near Madagascar in the South…
Despite Covid-induced reductions in industrial activity last year, climate concerns remain.
Every day, above where this column appears in the newspaper, the latest daily atmospheric carbon dioxide…
The New Yorker editor on Fragile Earth, a new collection of the magazine’s climate crisis writing, the continuing dangers of Trumpism – and seeing his family for the first time in a year
David…
New IEA report sees global energy-related CO2 emissions rising by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021, driven by a strong rebound in demand for coal in electricity generation.
Global energy-related carbon…
European Union lawmakers reached a late-night deal to make the bloc’s ambitious climate goals legally binding, paving the way for a torrent of new rules and standards to overhaul the entire economy.
Friends,
Thank you, President Biden, for bringing us together to focus on the existential threat of climate change.
Mother Nature is not waiting.
The past decade was the hottest on record…
2020 was one of the three hottest years on record, marked by wildfires, droughts, floods and melting glaciers, a United Nations report said on Monday, prompting the U.N. Secretary-General to say the…
Researchers suggest ‘targeted reintroductions of species’ to improve situation.
Only 3 per cent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, according to a new study which suggests damage to…
Fragments being blown across continents and threatening ecosystems, researchers warn.
Plastic particles in the air are being blown across continents by the wind, interfering with natural ecosystems …
Top Climate Economist Lord Stern Will Say Achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2050 is the Growth Story of the 21st Century.
We Don’t Have Time, Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Grantham Institute,…
“We are very sorry for the last four years,” US climate envoy John Kerry said
The Biden administration apologises for America becoming a climate crisis “renegade” under former President Donald Trump…
As the climate emergency deepens, each successive Earth Day takes on a greater urgency in the fight against the global crisis.
Celebrated every year on April 22, the international day of…
ClientEarth calls for tobacco-like health warnings on advertisements from fossil fuel firms.
Some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have used advertising to “greenwash” their ongoing…
Legendary naturalist explores lockdown’s influence on the environment in new documentary.
Sir David Attenborough has said that human beings have a duty to remember that we are “intruders” and “…
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