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Maize is a staple food for more than 300 million people in Africa. By the 2030s drought and rising temperatures could render 40% of the continent’s maize-growing area unsuitable for current varieties. Staple food crops like sorghum, cassava, sweet potato, pearl millet, cowpea and groundnut are naturally more drought-tolerant than maize. The intercropping is the practice…

WMO records biggest increase in methane concentrations since start of measurements. Geneva/New York, 26 October (WMO) - In yet another ominous climate change warning, atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs in 2021, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). CO2…

UN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. According to the report, the combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the Paris…

The science is clear about how to prevent increasingly dangerous and irreversible climate change impacts: Limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), which means cutting GHG emissions in half by 2030 and reaching net-zero CO2 emissions by mid-century. While countries, companies, cities and investors have announced some encouraging commitments to help achieve this…

Some 600 million Africans do not have access to electricity; 1 billion of them do not have a clean source of energy for cooking. Add to this the needs of value chain creation and industrial development, and Africa's energy demand becomes exponential. Will the continent harness its renewable energy potential or will it make the same mistakes as other countries, which led to the global ecological…

Our land resources are the basis of all terrestrial ecosystems. Healthy land and soil is biodiverse, stores carbon, provides food, and holds water thereby reducing the risk of droughts and floods. Land is life, it is the ground we stand on. ”When resources are degraded, we start competing for them. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable…