A core issue highlighted by Abdi Fidar of the IGAD is that the areas most torn by conflicts are often those left behind by climate finance
Still, Indigenous peoples’ leaders insist that solutions exist, and they have been practicing them for millennia.
As part of the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment, at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, nine tropical countries, including African nations such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, and Tanzania, jointly pledged to recognize and secure 160 million hectares…
The Initiative, Belém Call for the Forests of the Congo Basin, is emerging as a major multilateral commitment to protect and sustainably manage the Congo Basin’s forests. First reported on November 6, 2025, through a leaked document, and later…
The real Just Energy Transition is not just technological, it is political. Africa must not sleepwalk into a future designed elsewhere
On the eve of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, nine tropical forest nations gathered under the Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership to launch the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment, the first global pledge to secure additional land under Indigenous communities’ control.…
The just energy transition, which must be affordable, accessible, and equitable, is expensive as it requires local manufacturing capacity.
At a high-level summit ahead of the conference, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on nations to bring their “homework” to COP30 in Belem. Emphasizing new, stronger climate plans that can actually…
The world is mobilizing through the Draw the Line Global Week of Action (September 15–21, 2025), ahead of COP30 in Brazil and the UN General Assembly. Tens of thousands in nearly 100 countries are rising against fossil fuels, systemic…
As COP30 approaches, the message from Rio is unmistakable: implementation must be front and center, and local leaders are ready to deliver.