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How Interested Is Africa In The Global Biodiversity Plan?
According to science-based findings, an estimated one million species are at risk of extinction by 2030 if the world continues to ignore the need to reserve areas for conservation. The United Nations is asking countries to designate 30% of their land and sea areas for conservation by 2030, adding that this biodiversity program tagged the…
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Can Climate Change Be Blamed For The Recent Rise In Illegal Immigration?
Experts have warned that climate change and insecurity, especially in vulnerable countries in Africa and Asia, are exacerbating illegal immigration to Europe through very dangerous routes. Between January and May this year, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as FRONTEX recorded the arrival of some 86,000 illegal migrants, 82% higher than in…
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How Coastal Communities Earn Money In The Mangroves Of Kenya
The mangrove forests of Gazi Bay to many might appear to be merely coastal cousins of inland forests, but this rich ecosystem supports the planet and people in unique ways, from providing breeding grounds for fishing. Mangrove forests also protect coastal communities from storms and tsunamis and are efficient natural carbon sinks, locking and storing carbon dioxide…
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Nigeria’s Renewable Energy Investment Potential Hit $104bn
The United Kingdom High Commission has said that climate-smart investment potential in Nigeria, particularly in the renewable energy sector, is worth over $104bn. In his address at the Carbon Chamber Conference of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Head of Climate Change and Energy West Africa, UK High Commission, Sean Melbourne, said the…
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“We depend on the forest”: Logging Worsens Climate Impacts For Indigenous People In Nigeria
Despite providing habitation and means of survival for indigenous people in host communities, deforestation in Southern Nigeria is gradually pushing several forest kinds of wood indigenes into extinction. Micheal Otu (47) farms cassava and plantain in the indigenous community of Okonde Boki Local Government, in Nigeria’s southeastern Cross River state. Over 20 years, he has…
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A Look At South Africa’s Transition To Low-Carbon Economy
To prevent the catastrophic impacts of climate change, a pact signed and detailed in the Paris Agreement called for countries to limit global warming to 2ºC. To stay within the carbon budget, the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 450 ppm CO2 for E5. Like other continents in the world, Africa recognizes…
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Infographics: How Global Warming Is Worsening Cyclones In Southern Africa
At the beginning of the year, the U.N.’s regional meteorology centre warned Southern Africa and island states near the Indian Ocean to brace up for torrents of tropical storms. True to these words, in January 2022, Tropical Cyclone Ana tore across countries in southern Africa, causing a death toll of more than 80. The island nation…
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Tropical Cyclone Gombe Death Toll Rises To 53 In Mozambique
The National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) has announced the death of at least 53 persons after tropical Cyclone Gombe hit Mozambique last week. The institute announced another 80 people were injured and 400,000 affected since the cyclone swept into northern and central areas of the country, flooding towns and destroying houses. Additional data also…
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Cyclone Batsirai: 48,000 People In Need Of New Homes In Madagascar
An intense tropical storm tagged Cyclone Batsirai has struck several villagers in Madagascar, sweeping away the homes of over 48,000 people with a death toll of at least 10 people, the country’s office of disaster and risk management reports. Among the regions heavily affected by the storm is the small town of Ambalavao, about 460km (286…
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Africa’s First Electric Bus Begins Operations In Kenya
Africa’s first locally designed and manufactured electric bus has begun operations in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The Swedish-Kenyan start-up Opibus first launched in 2017, with the hope that its first model would begin operations in 2022. With its first model now up and running, the start-up would be able to boost the development of green transport…