Opening the UN’s mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Simon Stiell urged governments to focus on implementing climate commitments, warning that fossil fuel dependence was driving…
The US-Israel war on Iran is sending shockwaves through global energy, food and financial systems, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the world economy, according to the…
The World Bank has priced a $120m spekboom restoration bond in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, linking investor returns to ecosystem recovery
Countries are ‘still in the climate fight’, the United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said
Indigenous groups and NGOs caution that the facility risks becoming another top-down market mechanism that benefits investors more than the forests themselves
A decade after the Paris Agreement united countries behind the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, the latest Emissions Gap report from the United Nations…
Kariba REDD+ has been prevented from trading after allegations of mismanagement and corruption
Urban leaders call for multilevel governance, affordable housing and zero-emission transport to drive sustainable urban futures
Digital sustainable finance is key to mobilising private funding as Africa’s climate transition faces a major hurdle with aid often as loans increasing debt
Transforming the world’s monetary policies would benefit African cities and the continent’s public development banks have a key role to play
The need to ensure the independence of central banks was also one of the key recommendations from South Africa’s G20 finance track
Changes in funding show how precarious Africa is in its reliance on foreign aid and the pressing need to find alternatives to ensure economic and climate resilience
A strong presidency would establish mechanisms for accountability, ensuring that promises made during G20 summits translate into measurable progress
The continent must also ignore the dangled carrot of small bits of money for carbon forests or just transitions, said Fadhel Kaboub, a senior adviser at Power Shift Africa
There is an air of impatience as talks on finance hit a stalemate
South Africa and other developing nations are pushing for a $1 trillion climate finance target
LCOY 2024 aimed to provide youth aged 14 to 25 with the tools and knowledge to participate in climate policy and STEM-based solutions actively
With just 62 wardens to cover some 14,000 hectares, it’s an arduous game of cat and mouse
A cyclone, or a hurricane, can knock a small or at-risk country off its growth trajectory for years, if not decades
It was business as usual at the talks: protests, visa troubles and little commitment to climate finance
