The Jordan Times: Africa’s climate crisis is a health crisis

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Yacine Djibo. The planet is losing its ability to support life as we know it, and nowhere is this clearer than in Africa — the continent that is most vulnerable to climate change despite having contributed the least to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse-gas emissions. Beyond the increasingly frequent…

Cop27’s protestors ‘will not be defeated’

Activists are protesting at the official venue with strict restrictions from UNFCCC and the host country, Egypt.

What the ‘Africa Cop’ will actually mean for a continent at the centre of the climate crisis

African leaders hope this year’s location will focus attention on the vast, diverse continent where this year alone hundreds of people have died from floods and landslides in Nigeria and Uganda, while 37 million face starvation after consecutive droughts in the greater Horn of Africa.

What was at stake in Sharm El-Sheikh

Whilst the cost of inaction is far, far greater than the cost of inaction for many countries, it was difficult to come to an agreement to contribute to a fund helping those countries most affected by pollution from the industrial and most polluting countries.

Cop26 presidency run from within the UK Cabinet Office

The UK is running its Cop26 presidency from within the Cabinet Office, under the leadership of the former business secretary Alok Sharma, who is the Cop26 president, and the former CEO of We Mean Business, a climate change action organisation, Nigel Topping who was appointed the government’s high-level climate action champion last year. Sponsorship is