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Africa is exposed to complex, interconnected climate systems, with three of the most important being El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the monsoons, and cyclones. Each is already affecting the lives and livelihoods of people across the continent. As anthropogenic climate change causes the planet to warm, each of these climate systems is likely to increase their influence on extreme weather…

Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk, experts say ahead of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi Wildfires and climate change are “mutually exacerbating” Governments are called to radically shift their investments in wildfires to focus on prevention and preparedness Nairobi, 23 February, 2022 – Climate change and land-use change…

Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 23rd February 2022 – The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) today announced that, through its Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program with the African Development Bank (AfDB), it will mainstream climate adaptation and resilience measures at the program and project level in the Desert to Power initiative, a key pillar of the Great Green Wall Initiative in the Sahel.…

The Sahel region has been at the center of international discourse for many years, in the areas of peace, security and development. Though it represents one of the most fragile regions of the world, the Sahel is replete with opportunities, both natural and manmade. With an enlightened youthful population (standing at 65%) great potential exists for the growth of Sahelian countries in…

Ahead of the last round of CBD negotiations before the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15, The B Team and Business for Nature launch a joint brief called “Financing Our Survival: Building a Nature-Positive Economy through Subsidy Reform”. It summarizes the key messages from a study by subsidy experts Doug Koplow and Ronald Steenblik and aims to inform government and business decision making on…

Forests and trees have a major role to play to advance the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and address major global challenge such as: climate change, deforestation, forest and land degradation, biodiversity erosion, poverty and food insecurity. Over the last ten years, with the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration on Forests, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and…