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Articles on COP30 Africa
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African countries need funding, skilled staff, and technology to make adaptation happen.
Mozambique, one of Africa’s climate hotspots, faces droughts, floods and cyclones but lacks data, skilled experts and finance to adapt.
In rural Zambia, solar power has brightened lives, but communities living next to forests can only pay for it by cutting down trees, putting forests at risk.
Carbon offsets in Zimbabwe pay for new garden projects and clean energy stoves, but prevent local communities from using land that was previously communal.
Dangerous climate tipping points will threaten food, water and coastlines. They’re irreversible and only radically accelerated climate action can stop them now.
Africa is heavily dependent on agriculture. At this year’s COP30 conference, the continent needs to secure more funding to adapt land to climate disasters.
Young people are climate change activists, but largely excluded from global meetings, and aren’t taken seriously when they do get there.
Recycling and cutting personal waste isn’t enough. Polluters must be regulated, and reparations paid by companies that have harmed the environment.
Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Professor of Law, University College Cork; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Postdoctoral Researcher in the Youth Climate Justice Project, University College Cork
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Research fellow, University of Fort Hare
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Research and Innovation Development Manager for the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Researcher and Advisor in the Youth Climate Justice Project, University College Cork
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Great Zimbabwe University
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Lecturer and PhD candidate: Energy & Environmental Engineering Research Group, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lúrio University
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Research Scientist and Climate Action Specialist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Lead: Holistic Climate Change Impact Area, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research