Africa Science News Service

ACS2: Leaders call a shift from climate rhetoric to tangible results

2025-09-08T19:58:00.003+03:00

By Henry Neondo The Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) opened Monday in Ethiopia’s capital with urgent calls from leaders, youth, and civil society for Africa to shift from climate rhetoric to tangible results. Under the theme “Accelerating Global Climate Solutions: Financing for Africa’s Resilient and Green Development,” the summit gathered heads of state, ministers, and global partners

Why the Second Africa Climate Summit Should Cascade—Not “Scale Up”—Carbon Credits to Grass-Roots Communities

2025-08-30T08:11:00.005+03:00

By Henry Neondo Nairobi—As leaders, financiers and development agencies convene for the second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, one phrase buzzes across plenary halls and press briefings: “scale up carbon markets.” The promise sounds irresistible—billions in new finance, speedy emissions reductions, nature conserved and millions of climate-exposed grassroot

Climate Justice Torch

2023-09-29T05:45:00.001+03:00

These are pictorial presentations of the #ClimateJusticeTorch that was flagged off from Gabon in August 2022 and ended at COP27 in Sharma El Sheikh in Egypt.

IMF boss in Kigali to discuss climate change financing for EA

2023-01-26T13:06:00.002+03:00

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will on Wednesday join a roundtable discussion on climate change financing with East African finance ministers and governors of central banks in Kigali, Rwanda.Ms Georgieva was expected to arrive in Kigali on Tuesday evening from Zambia.Her visit to Rwanda comes a few weeks after her board approved $319 million in

Why communities should be empowered through grasstoot environmental education

2023-01-26T13:04:00.000+03:00

The African Coalition of Communities Responsive for Climate Change has urged the African governments to roll out massive education programmes aimed at making grassroots communities involved in conservation efforts. In a statement released ahead of World Environmental Education Day today January 26, the Executive Advisory at the ACCRCC said as things stand, conservation programmes are mostly

Climate Change: PACJA to host Governors Conference

2018-10-05T10:21:00.002+03:00

The Council of Governors (CoG), the County Assemblies Forum (CAF), the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), among other partners, are meeting in one-day National Conference in Nairobi, Kenya to take stock on the progress so far reached in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions NDCs, with specific focus on the devolved units of governance. The Conference will

Adolescent girls ‘Takeover’ to Commemorate 2016 International Day of the Girl child

2016-10-12T15:55:00.001+03:00

By Erick Akasa Child rights organisation Plan International supported girls across the world to Stage a historic “takeover” in observance of the International Day of the Girl. From Kenya to Canada, leading figures in political economic and social spheres stepped aside for girls to take charge. By occupying spaces and places where they are rarely seen or heard, girls are calling on

Kenya’s plan for CITES COP17 in South Africa revealed

2016-08-18T18:37:00.004+03:00

Hon. Joyce lay, Jackline Mwende and her parents receive the support from “Merck more than a Mother” Japan will offer crucial support to Africa’s development efforts with the aim of enabling the African continent to nurture cutting-edge science and

Mobile labs deliver faster yellow fever test results

2016-07-29T09:10:00.003+03:00

ShareRasha Kelej , is the convener of this campaign. She is the Chief Social Officer (CSO) and Vice-President of Merck Healthcare . She wishes to raise awareness about discrimination, stigma and ostracism women

Biofortification Pioneers Win 2016 World Food Prize For Fight Against Malnutrition

2016-06-28T19:08:00.000+03:00

A new initiative to combat desertification, rehabilitate degraded land and mitigate the effects of drought was on Friday launched by China and the UN

UWA, Conservation Partners Strengthen Law Enforcement Response to Wildlife Crime

2016-06-14T15:10:00.000+03:00