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Measuring a country’s capacity to achieve its NDC targets is crucial, because it provides the foundation for improving capacity development, enhancing knowledge and optimising financial flows.

Scorecard will help governments meet nationally determined contributions to cut carbon emissions

To achieve these targets, synergy across government departments, institutions and business is required to drive climate action

Schoolchildren who participated in the Local Conference of Youth event held at the African Leadership Academy in Roodepoort.

SACAN workshop: African youth perspectives on STEM and climate action

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

History shows us that a handful of countries from the Global North are largely responsible for climate change and continue to be so (China’s per capita emissions are still less than half those of the US, while over a fifth of China’s emissions come from exports). Photo: Supplied

Can we really expect climate justice to result from COP27?

The Global North must own up to its responsibility for the climate emergency and pay the debt owed to the Global South — in actions not words

African activists demanding climate finance and compensation payments from rich countries to poor countries disproportionately affected by climate change and fossil fuel exploitation protest at the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 09, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Africa turns up the heat for COP27

Hosted on home soil, this year’s conference is a valuable opportunity to gain climate wins for the continent

Climate action is a legal duty, say groups to world’s governments ahead of COP27. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

COP27 explained by experts: What is it and why should you care?

When parties meet to negotiate and evaluate progress on climate change, financing for loss and damage will be high on the agenda for developing countries

Workers replant mangrove trees at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt’s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. Photo: Getty Images

Invest in biodiversity: Inaction is no longer a choice

Effective action needs to understand the linkages between biodiversity loss, climate change, economic development and the need for a conservation approach that is integrated and…

People’s lives have been disrupted by climate change and the National Dialogue is the platform to raise this. Photo: File

Why climate action must include women’s voices

In June, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change released a report on the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change. Drawing on hundreds of peer-reviewed…

Africa, Caribbean have ‘moral high ground’ on climate change – UN climate change global ambassador

Both regions boast innovative, homegrown solutions but these rarely ‘get airtime’

Determined: Climate change demonstrators from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in central London, promising two weeks of disruption. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

COP26: Fossil fuel firms sponsor climate talks

Views about multinational energy and gas companies sponsoring the United Nations climate conferences are strongly divided

Complex transition: A man fishes across from the Wujing coal power station in Shanghai, China and electrical workers in a boat check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian, China. Mzukisi Qobo writes that China calibrates its pragmatic use of coal with increasing investments in renewable energy rather than basing its future decisions purely on idealism. Photos: Johannes Eisele/AFP & AFP

South Africa must approach its energy transition pragmatically

A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations

Mithika Mwenda, the Executive Director of the African Climate Justice Alliance . (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

African negotiators say crucial climate talks will be a failure if held virtually

They want quantitative commitments to the various finance mechanisms that rich countries have promised to contribute to

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)

Parties divided on carbon trading system as UN climate talks end

One country pays for greenhouse gas emissions in another country and uses that credit for its own emission reduction targets — but accounting irregularities increased carbon…

Superspreader: Activists from all over the world went to Madrid for the COP25 climate conference. (Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

Covid may stop SA presence at COP

The United Kingdom, this year’s climate change conference host, wants an in-person event, but Covid factors such as travel restrictions and vaccinations may stop people from…

About 422 000 local jobs are tied to exports to economies with active or incoming carbon border adjustment mechanisms (Oupa Nkosi)

Carbon tax to curb big polluters

Other steps to fight climate change include improved reporting, monitoring and laws