The African Development Bank is among the entities and climate advocacy groups on the continent to express disappointment at the essential failure of the COP25 talks in Madrid, which – despite lasting an extra two days – ended with no meaningful commitments from wealthy nations to act on carbon emissions…
A “Fridays for the Future” press conference, led by climate activists Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Luisa Neubauer of Germany on Monday, intentionally focused not on their highly visible voices but rather those activists who hail from the Global South. Among them was Hilda Nakabuye, a climate activist from Uganda…
Greenpeace Africa, alongside a coalition of groups from central African neighbors Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo Brazzaville, says it is promoting climate action from Kinshasa instead of COP25 in Madrid because eight delegates were denied timely visas. The annual climate conference is hosted in Spain this year instead of…
Leading climate activists with the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance presented the continent’s concerns during a COP25 panel discussion in Madrid on Tuesday, underscoring the priority that Africa must be during climate negotiations. Eugene Nforngwa, the Cameroonian environmental journalist and development specialist, led the panel of five African leaders calling on…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
High-level international climate leaders are working on what to do after the Government of Chile announced Wednesday it will not be able to host the COP25 meeting planned for Santiago in December. The decision from Chile, which has seen massive protests and unrest directed at President Sebastion Piñera over the…
China hosted a meeting of key BASIC environmental ministers at the weekend, a group that also includes South Africa, India and Brazil – all of them pressing the case to act on climate change. The South African agency was represented in Beijing by its chief climate negotiator, Maesela Kekana, and…