Inger Andersen, UNEP's chief, urges African nations to scale up climate and biodiversity finance, innovation, and leadership ...

African Development Bank (AfDB), development partners call for major new financing to accelerate Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative ...

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, has called on African leaders to mainstream climate ...

Climate change, of which Africa has been the principal victim, is aggravating severe and rising security threats across the continent — including terrorism, armed confrontations, and inter-community ...

Kenya will host delegates from governments, civil society, industry and scientific agencies for the United Nations ...

The first Africa Climate Summit, held in Nairobi in 2023, was a turning point. It lit the fuse to launch a collaborative, climate-resilient, and prosperous Africa. This week, as leaders gathered in ...

Global temperatures are projected to surpass 1.5°C (2.7°F) within the next decade, underscoring the urgency of the climate crisis.

African climate negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan have delivered a clear and urgent message – climate diplomacy must hold steady amid escalating global crises, from wars in ...

New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon ...

The climate talks at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, closed with gains for Africa, Indigenous peoples and adaptation finance — but ...

When Ademola Adesina founded a startup to provide solar and battery-based power subscription packages to individuals and businesses in Nigeria in 2015, it was a lot harder to raise money than it is ...

Convened by President William Ruto of Kenya in conjunction with the African Union, the summit will address the urgency of marshalling resources to respond to the climate crisis, amid signs that we are ...