As negotiations at the ongoing Paris climate conference (COP21) entered the ninth day, the African Ministerial Council on Environment (AMCEN) has expressed its support for the push by the African Group of Negotiators for greater transparency in climate financing on the continent.
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Failure to include women in decision-making, lack of information on early warning signs on climate change and weak national meteorological centres have hampered communities’ capacity for coping and adapting to climate change impacts.
Speakers on the ninth day of the UN climate change conference...
10-Dec-2015
African Environment Ministers reiterate call for binding agreement or nothing at all at Paris climate talks
African Environment Ministers, under the auspices of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), have restated their resolve to collectively demand for a binding legal agreement from the ongoing UN climate conference in Paris (COP21).
The Ministers met on Sunday, December 6,...
The mushrooming of energy initiatives in Africa is a welcome development, but there is need for coordination of these initiatives to ensure their success, African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Kurt Lonsway has said.
Lonsway, Manager of the Environment and Climate Change Division at the AfDB, which...
African governments have been urged to review their education curricula to have relevant skills and human capital development for green growth and climate adaptation and green jobs on the continent.
Speakers during a discussion on the 10th day of the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris...
Africa has been facing a number of challenges such as high inequalities, underdevelopment and lack of power, but these and many others can be turned into opportunities if the continent takes the path of green growth, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.
The Commissioner with the New Climate Economy and...
09-Dec-2015
Entrepreneurs showcase climate-smart technologies that have changed lives in rural Africa
Small innovation projects by Africans in Africa are already changing the lives of poor people on the ground. This is an indication that the continent is moving forward, offering solutions to climate-related challenges.
In an event at the Africa Pavilion during the second week of the UN climate...
Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, held a meeting with African Parliamentarians and representatives of African civil society, on the sidelines of the COP21 climate conference in Paris.
The main purpose of the meeting, held on December 2, was to create a forum to...