Climate change

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Vol 62 No 23 |

African delegations frustrated by summit's weakness on climate finance and Europe's levies on fossil-fuel exports

11th November 2021

Hardest hit by climate change but producing the lowest emissions, the continent is losing out in the deal-making in Scotland

Negotiators at the UN COP26 climate summit, which is due to close on 12 November, are racing to avert failure on its two main aims: to limit global...

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Vol 62 No 22 |

Equity for developing nations will be key target of conference

27th October 2021

Rich countries are under pressure to step up pledges on climate finance and flexibility on energy policy

African governments say there is growing unease about the weight given to environmental conditions on the continent in preparatory talks for the COP26 climate summit opening on 31...

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Vol 62 No 19 |

Climate, pandemic and conflicts to dominate meetings in New York

21st September 2021

Secretary General Guterres's report calls for systemic reforms to counter weakening of multilateralism

There is consensus at the UN General Assembly about the main themes of the high-level meetings which started in New York on 20 September: reaching agreement at the...

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Vol 62 No 16 |

UNITED NATIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE

Fossil fuel lobbyists prepare for hard-hitting UN Climate Change report

9th August 2021

'Nobody is safe and it’s getting worse faster' says UN Environment Programme head Inger Andersen at launch of report for climate change summit

The UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered on 9 August its most devastating estimate to date of the costs of our consumption of fossil fuels. It...

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Vol 62 No 16 |

NIGERIA
CLIMATE CHANGE

The oil economy breaks up

5th August 2021

The architects of industry reform bid a long goodbye to oil and welcome the brave new world of gas for all

Energy companies, trades unions and politicians are beginning to get to grips with the prospect of wide-ranging reform of the oil and gas industry, the foundation of the...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

Emission targets, climate finance and ecological trade-offs led the agenda at Washington summit

28th April 2021

Africa's involvement is key to making a success of the latest wave of green tax, finance and technology initiatives

United States President Joe Biden's virtual climate summit on 22-23 April, in which he pledged to cut US fossil fuel emissions by up to 52% of 2005 levels...

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Vol 62 No 4 |

NIGERIA
CLIMATE CHANGE

Shell retreats from the Delta

18th February 2021

The Anglo-Dutch giant is losing its battle to fight off international lawsuits over pollution

Shell is retreating from onshore oilfields in the Niger Delta under a cloud, facing lawsuits, recriminations and so far failing to deal with some of the most serious...

Vol 62 No 4 |

Green tax blow to Africa

18th February 2021

The EU's €1 trillion Green Deal project sits at the heart of Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission Presidency, but the bloc wants to export its climate change...

Vol 61 No 13 |

NIGERIA
CLIMATE CHANGE

Back to the scene of the crime

25th June 2020

A plan to restart oil production in Ogoniland amid a failing environmental clean-up risks repeating all the mistakes of 25 years ago

This week lawyers for the 40,000 people in the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta have been pressing their case in London's Supreme Court to hold...

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Vol 61 No 5 |

Why Africa is key to Green Economics

5th March 2020

Strategic minerals on the continent will power the electric vehicle revolution and a restructured energy industry

More than any other continent, Africa has copious reserves of the vital minerals central to the transition to sustainable energy in the leading industrial economies.

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