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Environment
RSS FeedAfrica: World’s largest conservation area launched
2011-08-22, Issue 545
Southern Africa has just acquired the world’s largest conservation area - a 444000km² peace park joining Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Peace Parks Foundation said. The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area was legally ...
Nigeria: UN to monitor Ogoni oil spill clean-up
2011-08-10, Issue 544
The UN is said to be planning a close monitoring of the clean-up of the Ogoni oil spill in Nigeria as recommended by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in its report, the Guardian newspaper reported, quoting Martin Nesirky, the spokesp...
Nigeria: Climate change adaption and conflict
2011-08-10, Issue 544
Climate change, a growing number of voices in media and policy circles warn, is raising the risks of violent conflict in the twenty-first century. Dire futures are predicted for some of the world’s poorest, least prepared countries and their most vul...
South Africa: Keeping Shell out of the Karoo
2011-08-11, Issue 544
About 80 demonstrators wearing gas masks and lab coats to emulate scientists from oil company Shell have protested in Cape Town against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas in the Karoo. Shell SA is punting shale gas as an affordable alterna...
Ghana: Community exposed to environmental risk
2011-08-11, Issue 544
www.africanews.com reports that residents of Ohwim-Amanfrom near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana are protesting the siting and operations of a factory in the area. According to them, paper manufacturer, T &Y...
Lesotho: SA and Lesotho to build 1 200 MW hydropower plant
2011-08-15, Issue 544
South Africa and Lesotho have signed an implementation agreement for the second phase of the R15-billion Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) and committed to building a hydropower station with an installed capacity of between 1,000 MW and 1,200 MW...
South Africa: Cabinet notes document on national climate change position
2011-08-15, Issue 544
Cabinet has noted the national position for the negotiations on climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said. Previously, South Africa said it would commit to lowering greenhou...
Uganda: activists dare Museveni to sell Mabira Forest
2011-08-15, Issue 544
Conservationists in Uganda have vowed to tackle President Yoweri Museveni head-on over his renewed plan to push through a proposal to give away part of Mabira Forest for sugar cane growing. Addressing district leaders and agriculturalists at Entebbe ...
South Africa: Greening energy supplies
2011-08-03, Issue 543
The South African government has been called upon to display moral and political leadership as the country prepares to host the 17th round of United Nations-led climate change negotiations in Durban in December. But while the continent’s strongest ec...
Global: System change, not climate change
2011-08-04, Issue 543
Systemchange.ca is a free, public, interactive website – a multi-media tool for climate justice. With the full launch of the project in September 2011, you will find featured videos here including speakers such as Maude Barlow on the Rights of Nature...
Nigeria: UN set to release oil spill report
2011-08-04, Issue 543
The UN is to publish a long-awaited report on the impact of the oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region. The report took two years to produce and is controversial in part because it was funded by oil giant Shell. On Wednesday (03 August) Shell accep...
DRC: REDD+ forestry management goes to Canadian company
2011-08-04, Issue 543
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has entrusted a Canadian company with managing a vast section of its forest, including containing deforestation, the environment ministry has announced. Ecosystem Restoration Associates (ERA) will handle a proje...
Global: A compilation of material on climate justice
2011-08-04, Issue 543
The goal of this material is to connect some of the ideas and energy from the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Bolivia in 2010 with the issues on the table at UN climate talks. It contains briefs on 1...
South Africa: Concerns ahead of SA climate talks
2011-08-08, Issue 543
South Africa's preparations to host the next major round of climate talks have met with scepticism from activists critical of what they say is the country's lack of leadership on environmental issues. The high-level meeting of the UN Framework Conven...
Mozambique: First exports of bio-fuels to European markets
2011-07-26, Issue 542
Sun Biofuels Mozambique, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based Sun Biofuels, has exported the first batch of 30 tonnes of Jatropha oil, from its fields in the central Mozambican province of Manica, to the German airliner 'Lufthansa'. Cited in the dail...
Nigeria: Nigeria’s waning status in climate negotiation
2011-07-26, Issue 542
Barely four months to the 17th round of the United Nations-backed climate change conference scheduled for Durban in South Africa, Nigeria’s place as a leading voice seeking justice for the African continent appears to have taken a free-fall. Proceedi...
Africa: Women excluded from climate change projects in Africa
2011-07-28, Issue 542
Of the millions of dollars spent on climate change projects in developing countries, little has been allocated in a way that will benefit women. Yet, in Africa, it is women who will be most affected by climate change. According to United Nations data...
South Africa: Cloud over preparations for COP17
2011-08-01, Issue 542
Four months before South Africa hosts the United Nation's big climate-change conference in Durban, concerns are mounting that the country is lagging behind in its preparations. This comes amid accusations that tensions are running high between the d...
Kenya: Kenya gives millers the nod to import GM maize
2011-07-20, Issue 540
Kenya’s Cabinet has approved the importation of genetically modified maize as it seeks to curb a biting food shortage ravaging most parts of the country. The move makes Kenya the first country in the region to allow GMO crops into the market for huma...
Kenya: Advice on GMOs ignored
2011-07-20, Issue 540
The government ignored recommendations by the House committee on the rising cost of living in regard to importation of genetically modified maize. The committee’s chairman, Mr Ababu Namwamba, said this on the second day of a tour of the North Rift to...
Africa: Copenhagen Accord gathers dust as Africa battles drought
2011-07-20, Issue 540
As thousands suffer the effects of drought in the Horn of Africa, developing nations are silent on pledges they made to help developing countries cope with climate related change. In 2008, world leaders met to deliberate on climate change under the U...
Uganda: Farmers battle uncertain weather patterns
2011-07-21, Issue 540
Having spent years uprooted by conflict, farmers in northern Uganda are again facing tough times – this time caused by the weather. In late June, Joel Lacung and Margaret Ataro of Got-Ngur village in northern Uganda’s Nwoya district, laboured under t...
Africa: African rainfall data 'will improve climate predictions'
2011-07-24, Issue 540
A comprehensive 30-year dataset of African rainfall could soon help test climate change predictions and improve climate models, according to a UK researcher. The new data come from a European Meteosat satellite that has been collecting data over Euro...
Global: Arctic may be ice-free within 30 years
2011-07-12, Issue 539
Sea ice in the Arctic is melting at a record pace this year, suggesting warming at the north pole is speeding up and a largely ice-free Arctic can be expected in summer months within 30 years. The area of the Arctic ocean at least 15 per cent covered...
Kenya: GMOs, ‘Africa is not the place for these things’
2011-07-13, Issue 539
Anne Maina of the African Bio-diversity Network says the introduction of patented seeds and related chemicals into Kenya’s farming systems threatens the country’s agricultural practices, its livelihoods, the environment, 'and undermines our seed sove...
DRC: DRC, India to build hydro plant
2011-07-13, Issue 539
The Democratic Republic of Congo and India have signed a deal to build a hydroelectric plant in southern Congo. Officials from both countries participated in a signing ceremony in the Congolese city of Kananga late Monday. Congo's Energy Minister Gil...
East Africa: Too soon to blame climate change for drought
2011-07-13, Issue 539
As parts of the Horn of Africa experience their driest periods in 60 years, pushing the numbers needing aid to beyond 10 million, some have been quick to blame climate change. But no single event can be attributed to climate change, which involves lo...
Cameroon: Landfill gas project puts Cameroon in emissions market
2011-07-13, Issue 539
Cameroon has opened its first landfill gas recovery plant, which aims to reduce methane emissions from waste and earn the country emissions reduction credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. The plant will trap methane generate...
Global: A look into the ocean’s future
2011-07-18, Issue 539
A new report by an international coalition of marine scientists makes for grim reading. It concludes that the oceans are approaching irreversible, potentially catastrophic change, reports the New York Times. The experts, convened by the International...
Africa: Whose voice counts in tackling climate change poverty in Africa?
2011-07-18, Issue 539
A new collection of stories, research and good practice is showing how African climate and poverty activists are leading the global fight for climate justice - finding creative, inspired ways of using life-saving knowledge networks to share climate c...
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