News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 62
Rise of the Global South Highlights Minamata Convention on Mercury COP5
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (IPS) - As it strives to be the prototype environmental treaty of this era, the Minamata Convention on Mercury continues its razor-like focus on ending all major uses of mercury. Emerging as the force leading the charge is the Global South, particularly the Africa Region, whose proposals led to hard-charging changes addressing dental amalgam, mercury-based skin creams, and fluorescent lights.
Its Time To Align Climate Finance and Social Justice, Says Youth Climate Activist
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 12 (IPS) - Joshua Amponsem, co-director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund, believes it is time to ensure climate finance and social justice issues are elevated to the top of the agenda and negotiations at COP28.
Africa's Negotiators Urged to Leverage on African Science at COP28 High Table
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 11 (IPS) - African scientists and researchers are concerned that the data shows that the continent is being cornered by the spiraling effects of climate change, that the real impact of climate devastation is yet to unfold, and that the region is on the cusp of more severe and catastrophic consequences.
Farm to Fork: COP28 Provides RoadMap to Fix Africa's Broken Food Systems - IFAD
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 10 (IPS) - In the absence of sufficient urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming too hot to farm in Africa. Confronted by extreme, intense, and frequent climate events such as record-breaking prolonged dry spells, current agriculture and farming systems are ill equipped to adapt to or alleviate climate change.
Greening Education: Education Paying Highest Cost for Ongoing Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 09 (IPS) - It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes. As conflict and climate change increasingly become the most pressing challenges facing the world now, the number of displaced children has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.
For Africans, the Climate Debate Around the Role of Livestock Misses the Mark
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 08 (IPS) - Africa is contending with a climate crisis it did not create without sufficient recognition for the unique rights and needs of the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. Not only is the continent least responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, having historically produced just a tiny fraction, but it is also disproportionately impacted by the consequences of emissions generated elsewhere.
Emerging Climate Finance Infrastructure to Match Africa's Green Bankable Solutions
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 06 (IPS) - Although long profiled as the face of climate change, a high-risk continent with a pipeline of unbankable green projects, there are areas where Africa is leading the world. The 1987 accidental discovery of the first deposit of natural hydrogen during a water drilling campaign in Bourakebougou village, Mali, is today proving that Africa can export viable green solutions.
Electrifying Cooking: Decarbonizing Africa's Electricity Grid Towards Net Zero
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 05 (IPS) - Across the African continent, many first-born children in poor and vulnerable households do not go to school as they spend their school days collecting biomass fuel. The regional average of the amount of time spent collecting firewood is 2.1 hours, robbing women and girls in particular of hundreds of hours in a year and crippling their capacities to engage in learning and productive activities.
Ten African Countries to Benefit From USD 100 Million Released by Green Climate Fund
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 05 (IPS) - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has announced the release of USD 100 million at the ongoing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 28th Conference of Parties (COP 28) in Dubai, UAE, to support 10 African countries in adapting food loss reduction solutions.
Why Agroecology Should Be Considered as Key for Climate Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 02 (IPS) - Students of St Denis Libolina Primary have used agroecology farming techniques to transform the entire school garden and any free space into food forests and gardens for different vegetable varieties, legumes, and herbs.
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