The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) took place from 11-15 March 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UN Offices at Nairobi (UNON), organized on the theme of “Innovative…
UN Alliance For Sustainable Fashion addresses damage of ‘fast fashion’
Launched today at the UN Environment Assembly, the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is seeking to halt the…
The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could reach 1,000, President Filipe Nyusi has said.
It made landfall close to the port city of Beira on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph…
Two boarding school pupils are among 31 people to have been killed in eastern Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai.
They were asleep in their dormitory when rocks swept down a mountain and knocked over a wall,…
ABOUT SOLAR KENYA 2019
2nd Solar Africa 2019
Date: 21- 23 March 2019
Location: Ethiopia - Millenium Hall, Addis Ababa
The overwhelming response from the Solar Industry has encouraged Expogroup…
There’s a $700-billion opportunity for African countries over the next five years if they can close the gender gap in mobile-phone ownership, according to GSMA, the global mobile-trade body. It bases…
The South African capital’s crippling water crisis has spawned a host of new taboos and industries.
It’s 11 am on a Saturday, and both my Cape Town local mall and my bladder are pumping. After one B…
Droughts have become more commonplace in South Africa in recent years. In the past two decades since 1990, 12 of those years were defined as drier years compared to only seven years in the previous…
South Africa is set to construct the first plastic road in Africa in Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape, with an aim of solving waste plastic epidemic.
At least 115 people were killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843,000 people across southeast Africa, officials and the UN said, prompting calls for emergency aid…
Over 4,700 people gather to consider new policies, technologies and innovative solutions for achieving sustainable consumption and production.
Outcomes from the meeting will set the global…
The Africa Climate Week will be formally opened by the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo; Ghanaian actress and television personality, Joselyn Dumas; and COP24 President Michał Kurtyka at a high-…
After the great success of the first event in Rwanda last November, ACE Event Management in partnership with College Publishers will be back in Rwanda organising Water Africa & East Africa…
Up to a third of the plant life occupying the African savannah could be driven to extinction as CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere, scientists have warned.
A new study suggests that besides warming…
Climate change caused the majority of the world’s under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, and nine of the top 10 occurred in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, according to an analysis…
The United Nations must establish a system to alert the world to regions where conflicts may be inflamed by climate change, several security council members urged on Friday.
In a meeting of the…
Cape Town - The City of Cape Town is keen to expedite its legal action against the minister of energy and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) in the North Gauteng High Court.
The…