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Flood of information: The University of the Witwatersrand’s Global Change Institute and the South African National Biodiversity Institute have developed climate change fact sheets for local governments. Photo: EMS KZN
ADAPTATION PLANNING SOUTH AFRICA

SA municipalities get high-resolution data to tackle climate hazards

Wits and Sanbi have launched fact sheets, helping local governments plan for a climate-stressed SA

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience can improve the everyday lives and experiences of South Africans. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)
AGRICULTURE

Report: Climate change to reduce incomes, undermine food and water security, raise cost of living

Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience can improve the everyday lives and experiences of South Africans This content is restricted to registered users and…

  • Sheree Bega
1 min read
Researchers say transactional sex will become more common because of a rise in climate change-related droughts and floods. (A.Davey)
TRANSACTIONAL SEX

Taken by storm: Why climate change makes transactional sex more common

Because it involves one partner who provides the other with a reward in exchange for sex, it’s not an equal power relationship

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Lillian Roberts
7 min read
By 2050, up to 5% of Africa’s population — potentially 113 million people — may have to leave their homes because of the effects of climate change, a figure that is up from 1.5% today.
AFRICA

Climate change will force 113 million Africans to migrate by 2050

Most of this will happen within countries, with a second migration across borders taking place under extreme social or environmental conditions

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
There are many strong signals that continue to indicate the Arctic environmental system has reached a ‘new normal.’
ANTONIA GUTERRES

People, nature will struggle to adapt to rise in global warming if emissions aren’t rapidly cut, says IPCC

The dangerous effects of climate change are occurring faster and will worsen sooner than previously predicted, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate says in its…

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICA

Africa needs climate adaptation finance

With funding we can turn an existential code red into a prosperous code green

  • Akinwumi A Adesina
3 min read
A general partial view of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro at sunrise from Kimana Sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)
ACCELERATING SEA LEVEL RISE

Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers

Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Dirty work: A bucket wheel excavator at the Garzweiler coal mine in Germany. Fossil fuels are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, which drives climate change. Photo: Ina Fassbender/AFP
CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS

‘Fingerprints of climate change are everywhere’

There’s still there hope that COP26 will deliver a powerful pact for action

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
(Paul Botes/M&G)
AFRICAN CLIMATE ALLIANCE

Climate change a ‘collective trauma of potentially epic proportions’ for South Africa

The effects of global warming are negatively affecting mental well-being and will only accelerate in the future, according to a new report

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
End despair: Artist Banksy’s 2019 tribute to the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that wants states to stop global warming, which causes extreme weather and disrupts ecosystems. (Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto)
BANGLADESH RED CRESCENT

Disaster preparedness can’t wait

But solutions can only be truly effective if funding and threat information reaches the local level

  • Andrew Steer
  • Jagan Chapagain
5 min read