Climate

News : Climate

The World Food Program (WFP) has called for more contribution to urgently assist about twenty million individuals in Africa who may be affected by erratic rain fall. (AllAfrica)

Environment activists are up in arms over a decision by police to bar them from holding demonstrations to push for a legally binding agreement at next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AllAfrica)

Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December. (AllAfrica)

A Tanzania Investment Centre official has urged the private sector to combat climate change. (AllAfrica)

On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action it does appear, still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. (AllAfrica)

Mrs Nolutuesha Nchoe stands forlon, her malnourished baby strapped to her back at her home at Naikarra. Another emaciated baby looks on with sunken eyes. In a faltering voice, Mrs Nchoe says she has nothing to offer her five children after drought killed all the family's animals. (AllAfrica)

Heavy rains are falling across Zimbabwe and the Meteorological Services Department has warned people living in low-lying areas of flash floods while the police have warned drivers and pedestrians not to cross flooded rivers or bridges. (AllAfrica)

The drought spell that has hit most parts of Arusha and Manyara regions for about two consecutive years is tearing apart the Maasai social fabric and driving youths in large numbers to seek employment or beg for food in urban areas. (AllAfrica)

More than 60 prominent agricultural scientists and leaders have decried the almost total absence of agriculture in the climate talks, warning that the climate deal to be reached next month could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead. (AllAfrica)

Mombasa Polytechnic University College students on Friday held a special event to showcase their concern for the climate change if the planned World Summit on Copenhagen does not come up with an amicable solution. (AllAfrica)

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has set aside R20 million to rebuild houses for the families who were left homeless after a storm hit the Nkwezela area on 6 November. (AllAfrica)

Representatives of five local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the climate change sector of the economy, and an international movement, were shocked to the marrow when they turned up at the consulate section of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Accra last Wednesday morning, to present a petition to the Ambassador. (AllAfrica)

Side corporate tournament as organisers have moved the kick-off to Friday, 20 November 2009 instead of the usual kick-off date which is in the early months of the next year. (AllAfrica)

THE current rains have exceeded above normal amounts in most parts of the country and this is likely to increase in late November and early December. (AllAfrica)

Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed. (AllAfrica)

Poor women will bear the greatest 'climate burden', says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today. (AllAfrica)

Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say. (AllAfrica)

Women are the most affected by the effects of climate change, the latest United Nations Population report has revealed. (AllAfrica)

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Bob Dewar, yesterday challenged religious leaders and faith-based organisations in the country to raise awareness on the impact of climate change by ensuring that the environment is protected. (AllAfrica)

Several buildings in Ntungamo District, including the one housing the office of Ms Janet Museveni, the Ruhaama Member of Parliament, were on Tuesday evening flooded after a heavy down pour. (AllAfrica)

The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Adminitration and Safety Agency [NIMASA],Temisan Omatseye, has urged stakeholders in the country to support the Federal government sensitization campaign on climate change. (AllAfrica)

A strong hailstorm left 10 families homeless in Mbalala, Kasenge and Nakapinyi villages in Nama sub-county, Mukono district on Sunday evening. (AllAfrica)

THE Government has allocated food relief to the disadvantaged families and schools affected by drought. The disaster and relief state minister, Musa Ecweru, told authorities over the weekend that the intervention was ordered by President Yoweri Museveni. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its "State of the World Population 2009" report on the 18th of November. It chose to take up a politically delicate topic, the relationship between climate change, population stabilisation and the importance of gender. (AllAfrica)

Even as Kenya joins the rest of Africa in calling for a conclusive agreement at next month's global climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, rich countries have already shifted goal posts to 2010 at a meeting scheduled for Mexico City. (AllAfrica)

"Hunger is the lack of rain." ("A fome é a falta de chuva"): these are the words of a local farmer from Chicualacuala, a small town situated in the South-west of Mozambique, when asked about the causes of food insecurity in the country. (AllAfrica)

The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well. (AllAfrica)

The Government is preparing a local version of carbon trade arrangement under which people would earn money for planting trees as a measure to reduce global warming. (AllAfrica)

The committee of ten African Heads of States and Government on climate change (CAHOSCC) disclosed that Africa has identified priorities on strategies and institutional mechanisms to make firm the continent's common position on climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen summit next month. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has assured Nigerian team to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, holding in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009 of government's full support in the quest to make the nation's position known and accepted at the summit. (AllAfrica)

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday faulted moves by the House of Representatives to site headquarters of the proposed Erosion and Flood Commission in Abuja insisting that it must be located within the southeast zone where the problem is rampant. (AllAfrica)