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The growing competition for Africa’s agricultural land
14 Apr 2025 07:52 GMT
Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges.
June 2022: The start of the wheat harvest season in Tunis, Tunisia. Africa has 65% of the world’s uncultivated arable …
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US Paris climate agreement exit will hit Africa hard
27 Feb 2025 19:56 GMT
This week’s G20 finance meeting must galvanise a global climate agenda to mitigate the grave impact of the US withdrawal.
On his first day in office, United States (US) President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw his country from the …
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How to ensure Zimbabwe benefits from carbon finance
04 Aug 2024 03:22 GMT
This financial injection is set to fund a broad range of initiatives aimed at providing cleaner and healthier cooking across the continent.
A substantial US$2.2 billion was pledged to support cleaner and healthier cooking for one billion people, following …
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Just energy transition: The way to go for Africa
25 Apr 2024 12:06 GMT
Authors: Raymond Ofagbor and Joel Odili.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Last year, the Conference of Parties (“COP 28”) took place in Dubai, UAE, featuring conversations and a renewed commitment to lay the ground work for a swift, just and equitable transition from …
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Sustainable green finance in African real estate sector
26 Apr 2024 08:49 GMT
… Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) … traced back to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which … with sustainability objectives.
In Zimbabwe and Sadc nations, … sponsored incentive programmnes.
In Zimbabwe and Sadc nations, …
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Fresh scramble for Africa, this time through carbon credit - a new method
07 Apr 2024 21:01 GMT
Samburu governor Lati Lelelit (second right) receiving a dummy cheque of Sh 10 million from officials of the Northern Rangelands Trust led by carbon credit project director Dr Mohammed Shibia (center) on February 28, 2024 in Maralal town. The money is …
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Carbon markets, the new Band-Aid solution to climate change in Africa
05 Apr 2024 15:07 GMT
Packaged and sold as an alternative way to mobilising the increasingly diminishing climate finance in a win-win compromise or wooing private sector investment in climate change mitigation, carbon markets could be the new Band-Aid solution to climate change …
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WATCH: ‘Africans must solve continent’s problems’
05 Mar 2024 01:51 GMT
Mashudu Netsianda in Victoria Falls
AFRICAN countries should scale up investments in climate proofing, technology absorption, and adaptation towards building greater resilience of communities and nations against climate change while capitalising on the …
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‘Africa should unite, look inward for development’
04 Mar 2024 23:40 GMT
Africa Moyo in VICTORIA FALLS
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called on African countries to focus on internal resource mobilisation and an inclusive pro-people development philosophy that promotes cooperation among nations to ensure balanced development across …
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How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson
09 Dec 2023 06:19 GMT
… than 2000 fatalities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Likewise, droughts … seismic blasting near the Namibian border by an … system would replace the Kyoto Protocol’s binding provisions. As … climate catastrophes, especially in Southern Africa. But in making …