Climate Change

President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghanaian actress and television personality, Joselyn Dumas, as well as COP24 President, Michał Kurtyka, are scheduled to formally open the Africa Climate Week on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in Accra. President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana The curtain-raising ceremony will introduce a series of discussions throughout the course of the day that will feature prominent leaders, ...

The names of seven Indigenous Peoples’ representatives from all regions of the world were on Thursday, February 28, 2019 submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to serve as members of the Facilitative Working Group for the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform. The Platform will focus on the role of Traditional Knowledge in mitigating Climate ...

Australia has just sweltered through its hottest summer on record, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said on Friday, March 1, 2019. Melbourne, Australia “The starkest feature of this summer was the record warmth,” the bureau said in a weather report. The national average temperature from December to the end of February was 2.14 degrees Celsius above average, easily beating ...

Two typhoon names – Mangosteen and Rumbia – have been retired, due to the significant damage they caused in 2018, by a typhoon committee. Typhoon Rumbia making a landfall The Typhoon Committee, an intergovernmental body under the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), made the decision at the ongoing 51st session ...

Germany has unveiled a joint climate protection project by the hospitality industry as well as wholesale and foreign trade, which is funded by the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) as part of its climate protection campaign. German Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze According to Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze, its aim is to show companies in the sectors, through climate and energy campaigns ...

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has selected Yannick Glemarec to be its new Executive Director. The Board made the merit-based selection decision at its 22nd meeting at the GCF headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea, following an extensive global recruitment process. Yannick Glemarec Glemarec will lead the Secretariat of the world’s leading fund supporting climate action in ...

Ten countries from the English-speaking Caribbean region convened at St. George’s University in Grenada from February 5 to 6, 2019 to discuss a new model of cooperation for measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) climate action. Participants at the meeting to discuss MRV in St. George’s, Grenada. Photo credit: GHG Management Institute The meeting started with a stark call to action, ...

Experts have called for concerted efforts from the international communities, regional bodies and other stakeholders to manage risks of climate change on women. Climate change impacts on smallholder and subsistence women farmers They made the call at a session on “Addressing the Gender Dimensions of Climate Change and Security’’ at the Planetary Security Conference at the Hague. The experts insisted ...

Prof. Haruna Ayuba of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, has called on Nigerians to plant a minimum of four trees to replace one, in order to manage the impact of climate change. Prof. Haruna Ayuba Ayuba, a Professor of Environmental Science, made the call on the sidelines of the Planetary Security Conference at The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday, February 19, ...

World leaders have converged on The Hague, Netherlands, to call on countries to take urgent actions toward reducing the impact of climate change to water, livelihoods, peace and security. Ms Sigrid Kaag, Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, at opening of Planetary Security Conference, Hague At the opening of the Planetary Security Conference on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, ...