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Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease, doctors and scientists explain. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.
South African homes need two-way meters so that they can feed extra solar power from home systems and electric vehicles back to the grid.
South Africa needs a renewable energy industrial strategy, not just requirements for green power projects to buy a percentage of solar parts from local companies.
Ditches and canals can be climate heroes.
Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder farmers say.
The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and growth on the continent.
Mangroves offer natural protection against flooding. Without them, communities are left vulnerable.
The G20’s legacy so far has been to preserve capitalist financial systems.
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
Climate-smart agricultural technologies increase crop sales revenue for farmers in the Sahel region.
Wastewater heat recovery, which recycles hot water from drains to preheat new water, could cut coal use, lower carbon emissions, and create local jobs in Zambia.
India links new rural power lines to solar projects, providing cleaner energy for farms, while South Africa has ways for communities to benefit from green energy profits.
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
African farmers face rising climate disasters that destroy crops and livestock. The G20 must champion new, affordable tech-based insurance for them.
Young people are climate change activists, but largely excluded from global meetings, and aren’t taken seriously when they do get there.
South Africa’s G20 presidency is a chance to lobby for investment in drought-tolerant crops, better irrigation, and early warning systems.
South Africa’s coal mines seem to be leaking far more methane than official records show.
An EcoBall match is a live demonstration of the circular economy.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics & Meteorology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Senior research officer: Climate Adaptation in the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Climate Change, Technology and Policy, Carleton University
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Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
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Professor in Engineering, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Environmental Science, Rhodes University
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Researcher in Environmental Science, Rhodes University
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Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University