Climate Change

Civil Society May be Snagged at Paris Climate Talks

By Thalif Deen
The rising security concerns, following the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, are threatening to unsettle civil society participation in the upcoming landmark international conference on climate change in the French capital.

Opinion: Risks? What Risks?

By Hazel Henderson
We humans are acutely aware of risks. From our earliest times, the risks we faced were from hunger, predatory animals, extreme environmental conditions and, as our numbers grew, from other human tribes.

Zimbabweans Align with Climate-Smart Agriculture Amid Food Deficits

By Jeffrey Moyo
With droughts wreaking havoc in vast areas of Zimbabwe, a majority of people here are fast falling in line with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as food deficits continue.

Uruguay Puts High Priority on Renewable Energies

By Veronica Firme
Uruguay is modifying its energy mix with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, by means of a strategy that bolsters non-conventional clean energy sources through public-private partnerships and new investment. A majority of this South American country’s energy already comes from renewable sources.

Opinion: China’s New South-South Funds – a Global Game Changer?

By Martin Khor
South-South cooperation is usually seen as a poor second fiddle to North-South aid in the world of development assistance. Indeed, developing countries’ policy makers themselves insist that South-South cooperation can only supplement but not replace North-South cooperation.

“Bringing Private Funds into Land Restoration is Risky”

By Manipadma Jena
The world loses 23 hectares to land degradation each and every minute, adding up to the disappearance of 12 million hectares worldwide – an area half the size of the UK.

African Experts Say the Continent Must Address Livestock Methane Emissions

By Miriam Gathigah
Increasing calls for Africa to reduce methane emissions from livestock continue to be met with controversy, and livestock scientists say methane is a forgotten short-term climate pollutant with significant global warming potential that Africa cannot continue to overlook.

Nepali Farmers Get Climate Smart

By Shahani Singh
Bimala Bajagain, a farmer and mother of three, wears a fading red kurta and appears older than her age at 35. She offers us plates of salted guavas at the porch of her quake-damaged house.

Preserving Mangroves Provides Protection and Food Security

By Malini Shankar
At the dawn of Indian Independence, Government of India’s commitment to food security – in addition to the impact of the Bengal Famine – was haunted by corruption, hoarding and mismanagement, resulting in ongoing food insecurity among the indigenous people in Tamilnadu and Orissa that lasted for more than five decades,

One-Third of Papua New Guineans Suffering Drought Crisis

By Catherine Wilson
An estimated one-third of the population of Papua New Guinea, the most populous Pacific Island state, is now suffering in from the country’s worst drought this century and experts predict El Nino’s influence will carry on through March 2016.

Leading Powers to Double Renewable Energy Supply by 2030

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Eight of the world’s leading economies will double their renewable energy supply by 2030 if they live up to their pledges to contribute to curbing global warming, which will be included in the new climate treaty.

Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers

By Diana Omondi
You wouldn't typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth's climate is changing - and this is affecting one of the world's largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya.

El Nino Creates Topsy Turvy Weather in Sri Lanka

By Amantha Perera
Residents in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and outlying areas have been waking up to misty mornings of late. A decade ago, regular mist in this area just above the equator would have been a noteworthy event. These days, it is a regular occurrence in some parts north of the capital.

Climate Change May Increase World’s Poor by 100 Million, Warns World Bank

By Thalif Deen
The UN’s heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a summit meeting in September, are an integral part of the world body’s post-2015 development agenda, including the eradication of hunger and poverty by 2030.

Frequent Floods Intensify Migration, Food Security in Pakistan’s Mountainous North

By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
Ishaq Khan shivers as he recounts an unfortunate flash flood in 2010, which covered his maize and potato crop with mud and washed away over a dozen fruit trees he planted 45 years ago.

Africa Demands for More Input to Save the Climate

By Isaiah Esipisu
African civil society organisations championing for climate justice have criticised the Intended Nationally Determined Commitments (INDC’s) presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, calling them “weak, inadequate and not ambitious enough.”

Caribbean Agriculture Looks to Cope with Climate Change

By Desmond Brown
Climate change represents a clear and growing threat to food security in the Caribbean with differing rainfall patterns, water scarcity, heat stress and increased climatic variability making it difficult for farmers to meet demand for crops and livestock.

Urgently Needed: Studies Linking Land Degradation, Migration, Conflict and Political Instability

By Manipadma Jena
Some 135 million people could be displaced by 2045 as a result of land desertification, according to a recent UK ministry of defence report. This figure could rise to 200 million who are displaced by other climate change impacts like natural disasters by 2050, said British environment refugee specialist Norman Myers.

Climate Change Threatens Flavour of Argentine Wine

By Fabiana Frayssinet
Purple garlic that is losing its color? More translucent wine? Climate change will also affect the flavours of our food in the absence of measures to mitigate the impacts of global warming, which are already being felt in crops that are basic to local economies, such as in the Argentine province of Mendoza.

Zimbabwe’s Mega Dam Project Could Flounder in the Face of Climate Change

By Ignatius Banda
Zimbabwe's planned Batoka Gorge power project on the Zambezi River is expected to generate 2,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity, upward from an initial 1,600 MW, but the worsening power cuts that are being blamed on low water levels have renewed concerns about the effects of climate change on mega dams.

How Climate Change Threatens Zambia’s Already Fragile Nutrition Record

By Friday Phiri
It is slightly after 10 o’clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix Muchimba of Siamuleya village in Pemba district has just finished having breakfast – a traditional drink called Chibwantu, made of maize meal and grit.
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