This COP must be the one where fossil fuels come to an end,” said Luisa Nebauer of Fridays for Future in Germany. ...
The Basic group of negotiators — Brazil, India, China and South Africa — have uniformly condemned developed countries as having ‘double standards’, as rich countries increasingly use fossil fuels while simultaneously pressuring developing countries to move away from these resources. ...
South Africa, on the sidelines of COP27 in Egypt, has signed a loan agreement with the governments of France and Germany as part of the Just Energy Transition Partnership. The money will be used to accelerate South Africa’s move from ...
On the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, President Cyril Ramaphosa called for the hastened implementation of international climate agreements. ...
“To tell us we cannot develop [fossil fuel resources] is an insult to Africa. You are telling us to stay poor in Africa.” ...
The latest climate agreement is not a step-change or species-level civilisational transformation, but rather a pact that promises to do better next year. Though the climate crisis has not definitively been averted, some significant moves were made. ...
The Great Green Wall (GGW) is described as an “African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa”. ...
On Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the World Leaders Summit at COP26 in Glasgow that humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels is pushing it to the brink and that either we end our addiction to fossil fuels — or it ...
For more than 30 years, countries have gathered for negotiations around climate change. Now, COP26 in Glasgow will be crucial. ...