by Sophie Mbugua, Baku, Azerbaijan: After tense negotiations, deadlock, and near collapse, the 29th Climate Summit (COP29) successfully bulldozed a $300 billion annual new climate finance goal in the early hours of Sunday morning. Malawian Evans Njewa, the current chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, in a statement called it “not just a…
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by Sophie Mbugua,Baku, Azerbaijan: Developing countries at the ongoing 29th UN Climate Summit (COP29) taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan say they need an ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance (NCQG) of at least USD 1.3 trillion per year. They have called on the new goal to provide a significant provision component for adaptation, mitigation,…
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BLANTYRE, Malawi:On the night of March 13, 2023, when Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi, Celina Nyozani, a mother of eight, escaped the floods with the assistance of Lapken Thole, who had found a way to protect his family from the torrential downpours. Nyozani told Africa Climate News that by the third day, she had become too…
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Ahead of the 27thUN climate summit (COP27), the youth and other groups have called on world leaders to urgently cut down their emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C to reduce the future impact of climate change on humans and ecological systems. Against the backdrop of the recent global disruption events such as the Russia/Ukraine-instigated energy…
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CHIKWAWA (Malawi) The raging floods induced by Tropical Storm Ana devastated Malawi’s Chikwawa District, located on the west bank of the Shire River {about 50 kilometers south of Blantyre} and ripped Lameck Paulo’s home. The 33-year-old father of three paused and shook his head while narrating the terrors of raging floods that fell on his Kanthema…
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Margarida Tivane, one of the flood victims living in the Chihaquelane resettlement area. Tivane walks about 6 km to fetch water from the river as there are no water sources nearby: photo by Charles Mangriwo. CHOKWE (Mozambique)Twenty-two years on, scars of Mozambique’s worst floods still haunt Gilda Muhate, a 60-year-old widow living with her five…
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Aftermaths of a landslide in Muranga county after heavy rains. Nearly three years ago, on a rainy Thursday night at around midnight, 39-year-old Mary Wambui clung to her unborn baby. “The rain was too heavy! The lightning and thunderstorms were terrifying. My husband was not at home. I felt an unexplained fear for my sons,”…
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