Could health benefits offset costs of tackling climate-change?
The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to show how efforts to limit climate change will affect human health — for better or worse — with a new study that will launch early in 2011. The WHO’s Health...
View ArticleAfrica’s Green Fund for action on climate change
At the COP16, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced plans to create the Africa Green Fund (AGF), an mechanism designed to enable African countries access global resources to tackle climate...
View ArticleCan the UN’s clean development mechanism bring benefits in Nigeria?
With this prize-winning radio feature, Nigerian environment journalist Ugochi Anyaka explores the pros and cons of the Clean Development Mechanism, a central component of the Kyoto Protocol that aims...
View ArticleScrambling for a climate deal in Durban
UN climate talks entered their second week here in Durban, South Africa, with pressure mounting to salvage the UN climate change system. The EU is pushing for a new road map toward a deal that includes...
View ArticleGo vegetarian, reduce your carbon footprint
Climate change is often seen as an abstract and distant, global issue. However, there are many things that citizens can do in everyday life to mitigate its impact. One of them is to change our diet,...
View ArticleTanzania may benefit from new climate change research programme
Tanzania and other East African countries might now be able to undertake extensive research on climate change beginning next year under a new ten-year programme that would cost USD233 million over the...
View ArticleDurban city offers summit goers a chance to offset carbon
One of the side effects of a huge climate change summit is its own carbon footprint. The host of this year’s UN climate talks in South Africa offers attendees a way to reduce the size of it. It is...
View ArticleCan Indonesian cities drive emissions down without tackling transport?
Indonesia has ambitious plans to green dozens of its cities to help fight climate change. But these plans won’t affect the transport sector for more than a decade and experts warn this could create...
View ArticlePostcard from Durban: Greener football and tree-preneurs
Busisiwe Ndlela Busisiwe Ndlela was radiant when I met her yesterday. Just this month, and with money she earned selling tiny trees, she has bought a new cupboard and an electric stove and she is proud...
View ArticlePersuasion, prison and hard cash: how Nigeria is halting rainforest loss
With the feisty lyrics of American rap legend Tupac pumping out of the car stereo, 36-year-old Steve Okoikpi manoeuvres his only-slightly ageing Mercedes Benz through sharp bends on the road. The...
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