非洲 新闻
Climate justice groups celebrated the establishment of a just transition mechanism in Belém, where the COP30 presidency engaged heavily with Indigenous Peoples. Can upcoming hosts Turkey, Australia and Ethiopia take this further?
For a globally just energy transition, companies must meaningfully engage with communities.
In a tense closing plenary, countries protested the lack of finance and new adaptation indicators, amid a failure to include fossil fuels in the final agreement. The hard-won inclusion of the just transition work programme was overshadowed by vague funding promises and the exclusion of critical minerals.
Even as calls intensify for a fossil fuel roadmap, negotiators say talks are ‘melting’ on the core demand of tripling money for adaptation. Concerned, Singapore's environment minister pitched 'creative' alternatives to fund climate resilience.
非洲 观点
The very richest people are amassing fortunes while ordinary people’s lives stagnate. But there are policies that can reduce growing inequality.
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or electricity.
An ageing agricultural workforce bodes ill for our ability to feed the world. To entice young people to work in food systems, policymakers should demonstrate the industry’s breadth, while providing them with the resources and skills to modernise farming and build sustainable, innovative agribusinesses.
非洲 视频
Dr Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering study of chimpanzees nearly 60 years ago in Tanzania, continues her work to conserve nature in Africa by joining an expedition to protect the continent’s highest peak.
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In line with the Sustainable Development Goals' aim to eradicate poverty, a Japanese multinational electronics firm is providing power supply stations, solar storage and products to countries with little or no access to electricity.
Yolk Station, a South Korean solar energy company, has installed a renewable energy solution in a remote Kenyan town that can also tackle the problem of child labour.
Particularly for women, access to clean water creates education and economic opportunities.
非洲 播客
With clear climate policies and actions, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are filling the vacuum left by the United States. This article features the second half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the climate COPs.
The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.
Most schools only teach the science of climate change. Green School gives the skills needed to live in a warming world. Eco-Business asked Green School's Leslie Medema how to be real with children about climate change without scaring them.
The clean energy sector’s poor human rights performance places its legitimacy at risk. Jessie Cato of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sheds light on how the industry can avoid labour abuse, land grabs and other violations.
非洲 新闻发布稿
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Asia’s environmental enforcement leaders honored for cross-border impact
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
Power without borders: Charting Asean's path to an interconnected energy future
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How data is helping cities counter plastic pollution
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Innovative financing plan helps Vietnamese wind farm get off the ground
TransEnergy Global
A carbon bridge linking Singapore, South Africa and the global carbon market
非洲 研究
BirdLife International
State of the World's Birds 2018—taking the pulse of the planet
