By Opondo Henry While Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement have taken widespread actions to address climate change and its impacts, ambition and implementation must be accelerated rapidly. Many creative and actionable solutions to overcome challenges are ready to be implemented, finds a key technical report on the global stocktake published today. The global stocktake was designed…
A kilowatt saved is worth more than a kilowatt produced says Schneider Electric
The African continent has this year been plagued by pertinent and recurring challenge; how can it ramp up efficiency to mitigate the unstable energy provision faced by many of its regions? Vladimir Milovanovic, Vice President, Power Systems Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric emphasises that whilst parts of the continent are going through an energy crisis,…
UAE Carbon Alliance pledges to purchase US$450 million in African carbon credits by 2030
The UAE Carbon Alliance, chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, President and CEO of the UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA), signed a non-binding Letter of Intent with the Africa Carbon Markets Initiative’s Advance Market Signal to pledge an indicative intended purchase of US$450 million in African carbon credits by…
Masdar and Africa50 Join Forces to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition Across Africa
By Opondo Henry Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar has announced a partnership with Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform to identify, fast-track and scale clean energy projects across the continent. The UAE’s clean energy champion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Africa50 which will work to bridge the infrastructure…
African Women, Gender Constituency demand climate finance as grants not loans
By Lenah Bosibori The Africa Women and Gender Constituency has called on African governments to give women climate finance in the form of grants, as they are the most affected by the climate crisis. Speaking during the third day of the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in Nairobi, Priscilla Achakpa, and the Women Environment Programme…
Inaugural Africa Climate Summit ends in anti-climax
By Imali Ngusale The Africa Climate Summit has ended in Nairobi with an outcome that is satisfactory to none but to the political class. However, an overwhelming majority of the non-state actors left disappointed and disillusion by the Summit’s final Nairobi Declaration. “The Declaration is a disappointment and portends a doleful outcome for COP28,”…
ACS 2023: African States duped by the global stocktake process
By Imali Ngusale As the Global Stock-take discussion processes gather steam, it is emerging that Africa, with the greatest burden of negative climate impacts could be required to to build resilience to climate impacts without any financial aid. The global stock take process began in 1972 when nation States consented Article 14 of the Paris…
Climate change: Smallholder Farmers want financial backing
By Lenah Bosibori Phoebe Mwangangi is a smallholder farmer from Makueni County, a semi-arid area that receives minimal rainfall. Despite the minimal rainfall in the area, Mwangangi says that they are able to farm drought tolerant crops like sorghum, millet and cowpeas through the use of new innovative techniques that are fit for their…