The 2017 UN Climate Change Conference opens on Monday, with the aim of launching nations towards the next level of ambition needed to tackle global warming and put the world on a safer and more prosperous development path. The Conference, coming just two years after the landmark adoption of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, will also…
Africa urged to avoid being caught in the ‘capacity building syndrome’
Africa should avoid the ‘Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) trap’ by perpetually pushing capacity building and miss out on serious climate funding opportunities, Balgis Osman Elasha of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said. Dr. Osman Elasha, who is the Principal Climate Change officer at the bank’s Quality Assurance and Results Department, says “Africa could not…
Kenyan School kids plant trees to avert climate change effects
By Erick Akasa As the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP 22) to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change opens in Marrakesh, Morocco, on November 7, in far away Kenya some school pupils are making an impact by planting trees – one tree at a time — away from the pomp and glamor. The pupils of…
Climate Change: Uganda ratifies Paris Agreement
Uganda has officially communicated her intent to accede to the Paris Agreement. Hon. Kuteesa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs also the former President of the 70th General Assembly has signed the Agreement.