Africa’s youth are not sitting idle waiting for the green economy to arrive. They are working more, in fact, than young people almost anywhere else in the world. An estimated 304 million young Africans, roughly 57% of the continent’s…
Halfway to GBF’s 2030 deadline, Parties confronted a difficult question has the framework translated global biodiversity ambition into action
Mongolia Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg was elected COP17 President, beginning consideration of the agenda for negotiations
An elephant moving between protected areas and community land can reveal ecological connections that administrative maps may overlook.
Nairobi became a meeting point for one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges: how to halt the loss of biodiversity. Delegates gathered at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters for two linked meetings under the Convention on Biological Diversity…
At the gauge in Kaub, the number reads 10 centimeters. It has been dropping for weeks, and shippers on the Rhine have watched it fall with mounting dread. The water level here now sits around 120 centimeters, an absolute…
AU Commission works towards a common negotiating position for states ahead of IMO’s next shipping decarbonisation talks as Red Sea shakes
For years, the response to Africa’s declining farm yields has followed a familiar script: use more fertilizer. But across Eastern Africa, that approach has run into a hard limit, which is the soil itself. Decades of intensive farming, erosion,…
While rainfall dominates parts of the northern and western Greater Horn of Africa, heat remains a major regional concern as it is globally