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By Joyce Chimbi   Pro-Africa financial infrastructure could help Africa feed the world. Africa is home to an estimated 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS DUBAI, Dec 6 2023 (IPS) – Although long profiled as […]

By Joyce Chimbi      In Africa, the average amount of time spent collecting firewood is 2.1 hours, which robs women and girls of hundreds of hours every year. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS DUBAI, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) – Across the […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah     #ActOnThe Gap, the COP28 Gender Responsive Just Transitions and Climate Action Partnership was lauched at the climate negotiations in Dubai. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS DUBAI, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) – Women bear the brunt […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah      Aditi Agarwal moved from the world of tech to a youth-led initiative in India dedicated to recycling PET bottles through a circular economy approach. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS DUBAI, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) – […]

By Isaiah Esipisu     Dr Agnes Kalibata, the President of AGRA, and a member of COP 28 Presidency Advisory Committee. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS DUBAI, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has announced the release of […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah     Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity plans to mobilize high-impact investment for this continent-wide transformation, including the largest conservation effort globally. Credit: Pacific Community DUBAI, Dec 4 2023 (IPS) – Pacific people live at the nexus […]

By Joyce Chimbi      ECW’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif, ECW’s Executive Director at COP28 where she is appealing to the states and participants to contribute to the education of children impacted by climate-change related disasters. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS DUBAI, […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah     A feminist coalition called for feminist approaches to combating climate change. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS DUBAI , Dec 2 2023 (IPS) – The Feminist Green New Deal Coalition has highlighted feminist climate solutions and […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah    Yamide Dagnet, the Director for Climate Justice at Open Society Foundations, delves into the intricacies of the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th session of the Conference of Parties […]

By Aimable Twahirwa      Nearly 30 species of indigenous species have been identified to guide tree planting in various locations, including in urban areas, to restore ecosystems and the advantages and services we receive from them in Rwanda. Credit: […]

By Isaiah Esipisu      The land at St Denis Libolina primary, a school for physically challenged has been transformed into food forests and gardens using agroecology and feed the children, teachers. They have now sent a challenge to the […]

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By IPS Correspondent      Brazilian climate activist Isabel Prestes da Fonseca. DUBAI, Dec 1 2023 (IPS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said world leaders needed to urgently commit to three strategies: cut emissions, accelerate a just, equitable transition to renewables, […]

By Edgardo Ayala For farmers in the valleys below the 15 de Septiembre hydroelectric plant in central El Salvador, the rains bring floods. Now that the rains are more unpredictable, the loss of crops and disruption of fishing are even […]

By Joyce Chimbi      Teacher Maria Alberto in her classroom, 3500 classrooms were destroyed by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. Credit: Manan Kotak/ECW NAIROBI, Nov 28 2023 (IPS) – A catastrophic surge in the frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme […]

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By Hisham Allam      UN Secretary-General António Guterres looks across the ice sheet at Frei Antarctica base. Credit: UN Photo/Mark CAIRO, Nov 27 2023 (IPS) – The recent U.S.-China summit on November 15 in San Francisco, against a backdrop […]

By Farhana Haque Rahman   TORONTO, Canada, Nov 27 2023 (IPS) – Another year and another UN climate change conference. As our ‘world leaders’ prepare for two air-conditioned weeks of wrangling at COP28 in Dubai later this month, forgive us […]

By Joyce Chimbi      Climate change impact on Africa has been devastating as this photo taken in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique shows. Credit: Denis Onyodi / IFRC/DRK NAIROBI, Nov 24 2023 (IPS) – A just transition […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah     Ropes with young seaweed plants are tethered to underwater stakes on the shallow seabed by one of Wagina Island’s seaweed farming families. These families cling to a precarious existence in the rapidly changing reef […]

  Nov 22 2023 –   Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is a medical doctor. Born in Sparta (Greece) in 1976, she holds both French and Greek nationalities and is a graduate of Sapienza University in Rome, as well as holding a PhD […]

By Inés M. Pousadela     Credit: Jenny Evans/Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 20 2023 (IPS) – Australia had the chance to take a step forward in redressing the exclusion of its Indigenous people – and chose not to. In […]

By Andrew Firmin      Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies LONDON, Nov 17 2023 (IPS) – The need to act on the climate crisis has never been clearer. In 2023, heat records have been shattered around the world. […]

By Stella Paul   ‘If you ask what climate justice is, then the litmus test for climate justice is at the local level. So, climate justice needs to be judged by how many people are protected from climate-vulnerable conditions that […]

By Joyce Chimbi  Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to ensure their success. Creating resilience is crucial to adapting […]

By Manipadma Jena For more than 33 years, a group of strong-willed women from the village of Tandahara, India have kept their homes and village safe and plan to continue despite the unrelenting impacts of increasingly severe weather.   Tandahara […]

By Joyce Chimbi     Kenya’s extensive coastline has been fronted as a hub for carbon trading due to its lush mangrove forests. But now experts caution that carbon markets are exploitative greenwashing systems. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS NAIROBI, Nov 10 […]

By Aimable Twahirwa      African Lawmakers seek to learn from best practices on how to hold their respective Governments accountable in the implementation of the Addis Ababa Declaration on Population and Development and the International Conference on Population and […]

By Inés M. Pousadela     Credit: Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 24 2023 (IPS) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has delivered a long-awaited ruling upholding Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ claims to their traditional land. It did so by […]

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