Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
How Climate Change Fans Armed Conflicts in Africa — Report
By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
New Report Says Kenya at Carbon Crossroads
By David Njagi
Kenya’s planned development path will more than double its carbon emissions unless efforts are taken to pursue low carbon development, according to an environmental think tank.
Yet the country has high potential for mitigating climate change because it has significant opportunities to use renewable energy, says a report released by the Stockholm Environmental Institute [...]
Top Emerging Nations in Deal to Boost Climate Science Cooperation
By T. V. Padma
Four rapidly developing countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China (known as BASIC) — have vowed to boost climate science cooperation among themselves and other developing countries.
The countries’ environmental ministers, who met in Delhi 24 January, said their countries will develop a framework for permanent scientific cooperation on climate change and [...]
Ghana to Pursue Renewables, Solar Power for Kenya Schools
Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period: 31 December 2009–13 January 2010, as compiled by the Science and Development Network (Scidev).
Tanzanian text message project monitors antimalarial stocks
A mobile phone initiative has been launched to increase the availability of antimalarials in remote areas of Tanzania. SMS for Life — [...]
Reflections on the Copenhagen Process
By Morten Andersen*
When leaders from USA, China, Brazil, India and South Africa sat down together Friday night to draft the Copenhagen Accord which on Saturday became the outcome of the UN conference on climate change, it marked a process that was quite different from the normal procedures of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]
