While Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions are far lower in the global context, the continent is the most vulnerable to climate change effects due to its lack of financial, human, and technical resources
South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel
Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths
Although South Africa no longer practices ‘fortress conservation’, the shift to to protecting resources for people is criticised for incorporating nature in a neoliberal capitalist system in which nature is expected to produce profit
Eliminating inequalities, including in access to water and sanitation, is a foundational requirement for effective climate action
If we don’t engender an all-of-society approach, we run the risk of exposing our country, our cities and our people, often the most vulnerable among us, to the climate crisis
More than two million people at risk of climate-related starvation in Kenya
Unless urgent action is taken, South Africa will suffer enormous socioeconomic and ecological harm from climate change in the next 50 years
Views about multinational energy and gas companies sponsoring the United Nations climate conferences are strongly divided
The great powers such as US and China will compete to be first with climate targets, but climate crises will spur their populations to demand change too
The latest United Nations report on the greenhouse gas emissions gap paints bleak picture for the climate accord target
South Africa already faces numerous crises including hunger, poverty, unemployment, inequality — all of which are being worsened by the climate crisis.
Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
Long-standing issues on climate finance will make or break COP26, says environment, forestry and fisheries minister
New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation
A green investment increases resilience and adapts cities to the harmful effects of climate change — and increases property prices and addresses issues such as health, water, sanitation and transport
Only four populations of the micro frog, endemic to the wetlands near Bredasdorp, were known before this discovery
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The proposal was made during the Cop15 biodiversity conference in China last week when the conference adopted a post-2020 framework to save nature
The Healthy NDCs Scorecard has recognised South Africa’s efforts in revising its nationally determined contributions to mitigate climate change
The UN committee has been accused of ‘turning its back’ on the children who filed a groundbreaking legal complaint with it against five countries
More than 100 countries pledged to better protect nature at UN biodiversity talks last week
The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it
Only 16% of losses in South Africa from weather-related disasters in the past four decades were covered by insurers, leaving governments and communities unable to build back
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been announced as the joint winners
Addressing climate change is largely absent in the three major parties’ election manifestos
There are also early warning signs of climate change on South Africa’s coral reefs as elevated sea temperatures drive large scale bleaching
A rebuttal to Colin Coleman’s remarks at the National Investment Dialogue suggests South Africa certainly has a debt problem
Climate activist Lisakhanya Mathiso, 18, from Tafesig uses dance to educate people in her community about the climate crisis
The system needs to be more open and inclusive to give young people, civil society, the private sector, academia, and others a spot at the table
Climate envoys from the UK, US, and the EU are in South Africa to discuss a possible coal retirement plan
The world’s largest monitor lizard has moved up the red list for threatened species, with fewer than 4 000 of the species left
The country’s climate is becoming ‘more extreme’ as temperature records are broken