Food-price inflation has a direct effect on people’s lives — and it hits the poor the hardest
Future-proofing schools against the damaging effects of global climate change is essential
Past climate conditions that led to intense tropical cyclones battering KwaZulu-Natal’s coast are similar to the ones projected now under global warming
A youth empowerment programme has seen an increased interest in climate and environment issues.
The connections between health, climate change, declining public trust and democratic legitimacy, and geopolitical instability must be recognised
WWF says the Global Risks Report is a wake-up call for world leaders and business to make the necessary changes to reduce the crisis
Germany’s Climate and Energy minister Robert Habeck on Tuesday pledged to drastically ramp up renewable energy projects in the coming years
Conflict hotspots, most in the Sahel region, will continue to dominate the news this year, while a number of countries will hold key elections.
Workers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the western Pacific will be most affected if temperatures continue to rise.
The climate crisis will hit Africa hard. The Covid-19 crisis has shown that African states can’t rely on the Global North to do the right thing. Nevertheless, there are signs that all is not lost
Despite commitments to climate resilience, many continue to ignore their social mandates and push ahead with funding for fossil fuel projects.
Efforts are ramping up to make invisible water resources more visible in policy as a solution to drought and climate change
Free trade limits the policy space available to states worldwide, locking them into market-based trade and industrial policies.
Though there is no going back and fixing what we have done, we can certainly all take responsibility for our corner of the world to ensure we have a fighting chance
Shell will be the second big firm to depart for London after Unilever last year
Food systems lack resilience in the face of crisis and that feed crises of their own making, driving climate change and fuelling epidemics of hunger, malnutrition, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases
Cold-chain and refrigeration capacity are among the priorities of the programmes supported by the African Centres of Excellence, the University of Birmingham and the United Nations
No to ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture
As a result of its over reliance on coal fired power, the energy transition is set to be a monumental shift for provinces — Mpumalanga in particular — where the local economy is driven by the coal value chain
As the increasingly less relevant ANC vacates the middle ground and the centre-left, a void opens, which will urgently need to be filled
Chief executives have begun to recognise the importance of sustainability, but we urgently need climate science-aligned policies that provide a new framework for business
Shell’s 3D seismic survey is set to begin on Wednesday. But a high court application brought by rights groups to block it will be heard as an urgent matter on Tuesday
Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone
Environmental organisations say that COP26 ended with 90 new coal power projects, worth a total of 88GW, are likely to be cancelled
By directing climate resources effectively, the world could make significant — and simultaneous — progress in tackling both global warming and gender inequality
The delay in additional capacity to the grid was not caused by a lack of private capital, but a lack of projects
China will keeps its promise about not funding coal abroad, Chen Xiadong tells Fossil Free South Africa
Scores of countries at the UN climate talks accepted the COP26 pact reluctantly, condemning a last-minute meeting that led to a slightly different wording
Amid rampant mismanagement and the effects of climate change, we will have to learn to do more with less
Cattle in sub-Saharan Africa account for only a small fraction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the harms are outweighed by the good
Millions of parents tell world leaders that children are poisoned by toxic pollution with every breath they take
Monitoring has focused on health risks, but palynologists are now using it to study climatic changes in various landscapes