Tag: climate justice
Alawiyya Baba Musa: Nigerian scientist raising women climate warriors
Nigerian environmental scientist Alawiyya Baba Musa is leading a grassroots effort to mobilise women to plant trees, cook clean,...
New wave European climate litigation aimed at stopping African energy projects
More than 600 million Africans lacked access to electricity before the pandemic, and it appears that this figure is...
Africa expects action and funding for climate justice
The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came with all the usual warnings of the...
UNFPA brief explores climate change’s disproportionate harm on people of African descent
In 2021, a double disaster struck Haiti when Tropical Storm Grace hit the island nation just two days after...
UN boss calls for ‘revolution of support’ to aid world’s least developed countries
World leaders last week gathered in Doha, Qatar, for a major UN conference seeking to accelerate sustainable development where...
New wave European climate litigation aimed at stopping African energy projects
More than 600 million Africans lacked access to electricity before the pandemic, and it appears that this figure is...
Africa’s energy sector needs practical, not reactionary solutions at the US-Africa leaders summit in Washington DC
We are confident that, like previous meetings between American and African Leaders, the events of the highly anticipated Africa...
Africa needs climate justice in a warming world
Rich nations must do more to help Africa mitigate the devastating impacts of global warming and offer climate justice to...
What we want at Africa’s Conference of the Parties (COP27)
Every COP cannot be a talk shop. COP27 in Egypt must move from talking to concrete and ambitious action....
We cannot have climate justice without social justice
Israeli’s energy and water resources minister, Karine Elharrar, who uses a wheelchair, was denied access to the United Nations...