On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
African leaders should embrace good governance to curb global warming, a former Canadian legislator and environmental activist, has appealed. Dr Alvin Curling was speaking in Kampala yesterday, during the African Initiative Congress, which aimed at addressing aspects of climate change.
The Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned that climate change will drastically impact every facet of life in Nigeria if it continues to aggravate unabated.
This year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger. That’s almost one in every six people on this planet living in fear of starvation.
A crisis is looming over the small-scale farms of Africa. Experts agree that climate change is manifesting itself in the form of prolonged drought in many parts of Africa. This is having a devastating impact on millions of resource-poor, small-scale farmers. And yet, for the first time in history, we have solutions in hand that can help these farmers cope with the effects of drought.
THE first African Initiative Congress geared towards addressing the aspects of climate change opens in Kampala today.
Scores of activists on Wednesday blocked the main entrance to the venue of key UN climate talks in Barcelona, demanding heavy cuts in greenhouse gases.
As the world marked the International Day on Climate Action on October 24, the issue of climate change has assumed a larger dimension. With the Climate Summit coming up in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the International Conference on Carbon Credit Opportunities in Abuja on November 9-11, Abimbola Akosile examines a scenario, which has a lot of potential for Nigeria
Transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama of the United States and President Ian Khama of Botswana after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday November 5, 2009:
The United Nations refugee agency is appealing for $2.8 million to provide essential supplies and respond to possible disease outbreaks among more than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya threatened by flooding.
THE Commonwealth has asked developing member states in Africa to invest in activities which reduce the impact of climate change.
THE Government is to re-consider funding the model farmers in Karamoja whose crops failed to germinate due to drought.
THE recent call by former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, for global cooperation to avert the catastrophic consequences of climate change ought to be heeded by Nigeria as the country falls within the category of vulnerable and least developed nations that would bear the brunt of the greenhouse emissions, if appropriate actions are not taken.
South Africa will join other leading nations in calling for a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international climate change deal to be clinched at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Oxfam today warned that EU countries must cut themselves loose from the US or risk losing a groundbreaking climate deal that has been two years in the making. The aid agency says a fair and safe deal can be struck in Copenhagen this year, but world leaders cannot wait whilst the US plays catch-up.
