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Activists demand climate change loss and damage financing at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 14, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
ADAPTATION FINANCE COP29

Will COP29 deliver for Africa as Trump looms over climate finance talks?

African nations are seeking $1.3 trillion in climate funds as fears grow over Trump’s potential impact on global climate finance commitments

  • Editorial
2 min read
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit on day two of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference at Baku Stadium on November 12, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
ADAPTATION FINANCE COP29

António Guterres: COP29 must tear down the walls to climate finance

The final countdown to lowering carbon emissions has started, the UN chief said, highlighting three steps that urgently need to be taken

  • Ozayr Patel
3 min read
Green hydrogen is hydrogen gas made from renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power. (File photo)
CARBON NEUTRAL ENERGY

EU backs South Africa’s move to green hydrogen

But the European Union’s investment is a fraction of what is needed, and environmentalists are wary of ‘green colonialism’

  • Ozayr Patel
4 min read
Drivers in the cabin of a hydrogen-powered truck during a moving demonstration, part of Anglo American Plc’s NuGen carbon-neutral project, at the Anglo American Platinum Ltd. Mogalakwena platinum mine in Mogalakwena, South Africa, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Anglo American unveiled the worlds biggest green-hydrogen powered truck at a platinum mine in northeast South Africa where it aims to replace a fleet of 40 diesel-fueled vehicles that each use about a million liters of the fossil fuel every year. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
CARBON NEUTRAL ENERGY

EU’s R628m deal to boost South Africa’s green hydrogen programme

The European Union will provide grants which will partly go towards state-owned logistics company Transnet This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get…

  • Ozayr Patel
1 min read