Biden Should End the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Weapon
There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures. Most rank-and-file climate activists haven’t heard of it and most news media rarely discuss it in great detail.
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Climate finance: $100bn target reached as demand soars in Africa
According to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), developing countries received $115.9 billion in climate finance in 2022, meeting the target set in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Discovering Luengue-Luiana Park, a jewel in the Angolan town of Rivungo
Angola is best known for its heavenly beaches and culinary secrets. But this Central African country is also a bastion of wildlife, particularly in the municipality of Rivungo.
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EAST AFRICA: floods in the first half of 2024
Climate change has been dictating the law in East Africa for some years now.
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TUNISIA: Saudi Arabia’s Acwa to invest in hydrogen for the European market
Saudi company Acwa Power has signed an agreement with the Tunisian authorities for the development and production of green hydrogen in the country.
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SOUTH AFRICA: mining company Sibanye signs for 140 MW of wind energy
South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has signed an agreement to purchase 140 MW of privately-owned wind power to power and decarbonise its extractive operations in the Rainbow Nation. The 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) was signed recently
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At €20,000, will Volkswagen’s future EV be affordable for Africans?
While the cost of buying an electric vehicle can sometimes approach €170,000, depending on production costs and the model, German carmaker Volkswagen has announced that it will be manufacturing and marketing a new €20,000 model by 2025.
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Donatien Wembe: “Illegal fishing discourages local investment”.
Faced with increasing overexploitation and destructive practices, small-scale fishing in Africa, particularly in Cameroon, is facing major challenges that threaten the sustainability of fish stocks.
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CAMEROON: towards the end of the red card for IUU fishing?
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU fishing) on 5 June 2024, Afrik21 spoke to Elie Badai, head of the fisheries control and monitoring unit at Minpia.
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Why is the AfDB joining the African Carbon Markets Initiative?
At its 2024 Annual Meetings, which have just ended in Nairobi, Kenya, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced that it was joining the African Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI).
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An Ivorian law to combat climate change is in the pipeline
A draft law is being prepared in Ivory Coast. The bill, described as "binding", focuses on the fight against climate change in this West African country. It’s been a long time coming!
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MOZAMBIQUE: agents trained to interpret air quality data
The city of Maputo now has municipal officers who can interpret air quality data.
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Desalination: ecological cost remains neglected, to the benefit of access to water
For almost seven years, there has been an increase in water desalination projects of around 9% per year.
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It was all eco: Coldplay beats emissions target for world tour – via kinetic dancefloors and trains
Coldplay has announced that they have reduced their touring carbon footprint by 59% compared with their previous world tour – via some creative methods that include kinetic dancefloors that allow dancing fans to generate electricity, recyclable LED wristbands and the band travelling by train.
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Improving energy supply in Pakistan could save 175,000 lives, says Unicef
A study by the UN children’s agency has found that developing resilient energy systems to keep the power on in health facilities in Pakistan could prevent more than
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Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees
The unusually intense, prolonged and extensive flooding that has devastated southern Brazil was made at least twice as likely by human burning of fossil fuels and trees, a
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Trump’s $1bn pitch to oil bosses ‘the definition of corruption’, top Democrat says
Donald Trump’s brazen pitch to 20 fossil-fuel heads for $1bn to aid his presidential campaign in return for promises of lucrative tax and regulatory favors is the “definition of corruption”, a top Democrat investigating the issue has said.
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‘It’s all we have’: young climate activists on the state of politics around the world
This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies.
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‘Unliveable’: Delhi’s residents struggle to cope in record-breaking heat
As the water tanker drove into a crowded Delhi neighbourhood, a ruckus erupted. Dozens of residents ran frantically behind it, brandishing buckets, bottles and hoses, and jumped on top of it to get even a drip of what was stored inside.
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Republican governors gather to attack Biden’s climate agenda
Republican governors gathered in the fossil-fuel rich state of Louisiana on Monday to rail against the Biden administration’s climate agenda and lay out plans to “unleash Ame
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