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Gambian Climate Activist to Advise UN Boss on Climate Crisis

20Mar

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Gambian Climate Activist to Advise UN Boss on Climate Crisis

Photo © United Nations Gambian climate campaigner Fatou Jeng is among seven youth leaders appointed to advise the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on speeding up action on global climate change. Fatou is part of the new cohort of the Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change which will serve for the next two years. She was selected from a pool of candidates nominated by youth- and climate-focused non-governmental and civil society organizations worldwide. Fatou founded Clean Earth Gambia, a youth-led, local climate organization that has mobilized thousands of Gambian youth to help marginalized and vulnerable communities build resilience to climate change. She is also a member of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) where she s...

Africa Climate Fund Receives $3 Million Boost

21Feb

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Africa Climate Fund Receives $3 Million Boost

Coastal City Adaptation Project, in Quelimane city, Mozambique to improve preparation for floods, erosion, sea level rise and other weather and climate-related events. ©PDUSGov/ Wikimedia Commons The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has grown to $28.8 million following a $3 million (€3 million) contribution by Ireland ($2 million) and Austria ($1 million). Established in 2014 by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the trust fund supports African countries to build resilience to the worsening impacts of climate change and to transition to sustainable low-carbon growth. With the latest cash injection, Ireland and Austria join Germany, Italy, Flanders, Quebec, Canada and Global Center on Adaptation as ACCF donors. “Austria contributed to the ACCF to support t...

Ghana Receives $4.8 Million for Curbing Forest Loss

10Feb

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Ghana Receives $4.8 Million for Curbing Forest Loss

A farmer in Ghana prunes his cacao tree. Sustainable cocoa production is key to reducing deforestation. Photo © Richard Markham/Bioversity International Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank fund for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, commonly known as REDD+. The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) paid Ghana $4,862,280 for reducing 972,456 tons of emissions for the first monitoring period under the program (June to December 2019). “This payment is the first of four under the country’s Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA) with the World Bank to demonstrate potential for leveraging results-based payments for carbon credits...

New Study: African Forest Elephants Critical to Climate Action

6Feb

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New Study: African Forest Elephants Critical to Climate Action

Photo: © Frank af Petersens, Save the Elephants A new study highlights how African forest elephants enhance carbon storage in tropical forests, underscoring their value in the global fight against the climate crisis. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study suggests that elephants contribute to the abundance of huge, carbon-dense trees within tropical forests. They prefer fruits from large trees, whose seeds they then disperse through their nutrient-rich dung. They also support the growth of large trees to thrive by eating competing trees and shrubs with low carbon density whose leaves they find more palatable and digestible. "These results demonstrate the importance of megaherbivores for maintaining diverse, high-carbon t...

Uganda Needs US$28.1 billion for Revised Climate plan

30Jan

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Uganda Needs US$28.1 billion for Revised Climate plan

Fort Portal, Uganda ©Social Capital/Unsplash Uganda says it needs US$ 28.1 billion to implement its revised plan against climate change that it submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in early September. In the plan, otherwise known as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the East African country aims to raise US$4.1 billion or 15% of the NDC implementation costs locally and expects the rest from external sources. Uganda targets a 24.7% cut in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2030, compared to 22% in its first NDC of 2015. This GHG reduction will come mostly from the Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use (AFOLU) sector. Water and Environment Minister Sam Cheptoris says Uganda's NDC prioritizes adaptation to climate change. Assessm...

Climate Disasters Take Toll on Africa in 2022

30Oct

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Climate Disasters Take Toll on Africa in 2022

Somalia. Dahera (28) holds the hand of her son Mashallah (2) at the WFP-funded Kabasa Health Center in Dolow. WFP/Samantha Reinders A recent analysis of extreme weather events in Africa linked to the global climate crisis reveals that they killed at least 4,000 people and affected 19 million others this year. The toll could be higher due to data gaps. The analysis by Carbon Brief underscores the need for industrialized countries that are most responsible for the global climate crisis to support African nations for the widespread loss and damage incurred from climate-related disasters. Compiled from disaster data, humanitarian reports, and local testimony, the analysis noted that catastrophic floods, droughts, and extreme heat in Africa did not receive as much media coverage as c...

New Proposals for “Fundamental Reforms” of the World Bank to Boost Climate Finance

19Oct

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New Proposals for “Fundamental Reforms” of the World Bank to Boost Climate Finance

David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group. Photo: ©World Bank Germany, the United States, and other World Bank Group shareholders have drafted proposals for "fundamental reforms" of the Bretton Woods institution to better support developing countries to address the climate crisis. The Bank’s roadmap for actualizing the proposals is expected by year-end. This follows growing calls by governments and civil society to restructure the specialized agency of the United Nations to focus more on climate change and biodiversity conservation. Developing nations are struggling to access affordable capital for clean energy transition and climate resilience. “The Bank has to use its great financial capacity to act as a leader, as capital needs for a socially just transition toward a ...

7 African Countries Yet to Submit Revised Climate Plans

13Oct

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7 African Countries Yet to Submit Revised Climate Plans

Photo ©Annie Spratt / Unsplash Seven African countries are yet to submit revised plans against climate change to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in line with the Paris Agreement. Djibouti, Botswana, Madagascar, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, and Lesotho still have their 'first generation' climate plans on the UNFCCC online registry that were submitted between 2016 and 2018. This comes as governments, civil society, and other actors prepare for the UN climate change conference in Egypt next month. UNFCCC had expected countries to submit updated and ambitious NDCs before the end of 2020 when the implementation of the Paris Agreement kicked off, and to continuously strengthen them thereafter. The climate plans, technically known as Nati...

10Oct

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Locals In the Dark on Congo Oil Blocks

Field teams crossing a bridge in Befale, Tshuapa Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Greenpeace / Destin A new report says communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 11 million hectares of newly-designated oil and gas exploration blocks are unaware of the new status of their land. They are also wary about the potential negative impacts of oil and gas activities on their livelihoods and well-being. In what adds ammunition to opposition to the July 2022 government's move to put up 30 blocks on auction, local and international NGOs issued the report after visiting 14 villages within four of the blocks. Titled "We'll Keep our Forests, You Keep Your Dollars," the report is the first that captures views of local communities and Indigenous people within the o...