Climate Change

Tiny Island Nation Pleads for Global Moratorium on New Coal Mines

By Thalif Deen
The tiny island of Kiribati in the Central Pacific, with a population of about 103,000, has long been identified as one of the U.N. member states threatened with physical extinction due to sea-level rise triggered largely by climate change.

Impressive Relief Effort Alleviating Hardship in Flood-Affected Myanmar

By Kanya D'Almeida
With the rainy season still far from over, flood-affected communities in the Sagaing Region and other parts of northern and western Myanmar are preparing for more hardships, while the government continues what the United Nations has called an “incredible” relief effort.

Latin America Has Enormous Untapped Potential for Green Infrastructure

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Latin America is facing a two-pronged challenge: double power generation by 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The only solution? Green energy.

Protests Greet Japan’s Relaunch of Nuke Power

By Kitty Stapp
Protesters rallied outside Japan's Sendai nuclear plant a day ahead of its planned opening and four years after the Fukushima disaster galvanised opposition to nuclear power in the country.

Caribbean Artists Raise Their Voices for Climate Justice

By Kenton X. Chance
Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother.

Opinion: The Road to Paris and the Path to Renewable Energy

By Jed Alegado
Renewable energy is now being seen by many people around the world as a cost-effective development solution both for developed and developing nations. Countries have slowly been realising that the use of coal and the huge amount of carbon emissions it generates harms the environment and impacts our daily activities.

Obama Takes Lead on Climate Change Ahead of U.N. Talks in Paris

By Nora Happel
This week, U.S. President Barack Obama formally unveiled the details of his Clean Power Plan (CPP), a comprehensive carbon-cutting strategy he described as “the biggest and most important step…ever taken to combat climate change” in a prior video address posted on Facebook.

U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda Adopted Amidst Closed-Door Deals

By Bhumika Muchhala
At about a quarter to seven on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 2, the member states of the United Nations adopted the post-2015 development agenda outcome document, titled "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda."

Making the World’s Indigenous Visible in the SDGs

By Aruna Dutt
As the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples approaches on Sunday, Aug. 9, concerns are growing that they will not fully benefit from the newly drafted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Trans Fat Substitute May Lead to More Deforestation

By Zhai Yun Tan
Following growing concerns in the United States about the risks of trans fat since 1999, demand for palm oil, a cheap substitute for trans fat, more than doubled over the last decade and is expected to increase, eliciting concerns about deforestation in several Southeast Asian countries that provide 85 percent of the world’s palm oil.

U.N. Taps Private Sector to Fund Development, Advocate Social Causes

By Thalif Deen
When the United Nations seeks outside financial assistance either for development needs or to advocate social causes, it invariably turns to the private sector these days.

Zimbabwe’s Climate Change Ambitions May be Too Tall

By Ignatius Banda
With the U.N. Climate Change conference later this year in Paris fast approaching, Zimbabwe's climate change commitments face the slow progress on an issue that continues to stalk other developing countries – climate finance.

Nigeria to Balance GHG Emission Cuts with Development Peculiarities

By Ini Ekott
Nigeria seems in no haste to unveil its climate pledge with just four months to go before the U.N. Climate Conference scheduled for December in Paris.

‘Permaculture the African Way’ in Cameroon’s Only Eco-Village

By Mbom Sixtus
Marking a shift away from the growing trend of abandoning sustainable life styles and drifting from traditional customs and routines, Joshua Konkankoh is a Cameroonian farmer with a vision – that the answer to food insecurity lies in sustainable and organic methods of farming.

Mangroves Could Protect Coastlines from Storms, Sea Level Rise

By Roger Hamilton-Martin
The importance of mangroves in protecting coastal areas under threat due to sea level rise caused by climate change may have been underestimated, according to new research.

Kenyan Pastoralists Fighting Climate Change Through Food Forests

By Robert Kibet
Sipian Lesan bends to attend to the Vangueria infausta or African medlar plant that he planted almost two years ago. He takes great care not to damage the soft, velvety, acorn-shaped buds of this hardy and drought-resistant plant. ”All over here it is dry,” says the 51-year-old Samburu semi-nomadic pastoralist.

Opinion: Hungry for Change, Achieving Food Security and Nutrition for All

By Paloma Duran
With the enthusiasm of the recent Financing for Development conference behind us, the central issues and many layers of what is at stake are now firmly in sight. In fact, a complex issue like hunger, which is a long standing development priority, remains an everyday battle for almost 795 million people worldwide.

U.N.’s Post-2015 Development Agenda Under Fire

By Thalif Deen
The U.N.’s highly ambitious post-2015 development agenda, which is expected to be finalised shortly, has come fire even before it could get off the ground.

Central America Fails to Take Advantage of Energy from Sun, Wind and Earth

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Central America, a place of abundant wind and sunshine, is still chained to thermal power and large-scale hydroelectricity and has failed to include local communities in clean, environmentally-friendly and less invasive projects.

Nations Most at Risk have Least Familiarity with Term “Climate Change”

By Kitty Stapp
Although four in 10 adults have never heard the phrase “climate change,” many are aware that something is amiss with local weather patterns, a new survey covering 119 countries has found.

One Tune, Different Hymns – Tackling Climate Change in South Africa

By Munyaradzi Makoni
Anti-nuclear energy activists are up in arms, and have taken to vigils outside South Africa’s parliament in Cape Town to protest against President Jacob Zuma’s push for nuclear development.
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