Africa: Ministerial Statement Seeking Accountability on Ambition for Nature Finance

Africa: Ministerial Statement Seeking Accountability on Ambition for Nature Finance

[ad_1] Over the last year, countries from the Global South have come together to launch the Ministerial Alliance for Ambition for Nature Finance (‘the Alliance’). The Alliance is an intergovernmental group of ministers working to publicly champion achieving the nature finance targets that the world agreed to in December 2022 in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (“GBF”) and demonstrate actions that countries in the Global South are taking to increase nature finance. […]

October 31, 2024

Africa

Africa: Ministers from Global South Come Together to Call for Urgent Action on Nature Finance at COP16

[ad_1] The Ministerial Alliance for Ambition on Nature Finance (MAANF) has today shared a statement signed by 20 Ministers of Environment from the Global South, 'Seeking Accountability on Ambition for Nature Finance.' The press conference at which this was launched can be watched here. Released on the second day of the High-Level segment, the statement calls on countries in the Global North to: 'Act urgently to ensure that at least […]

October 31, 2024

Africa

Africa: Eating Elephants and the Assault On Our Waning Wildlife

[ad_1] Our relationship with the wild animals on our planet, whose numbers are rapidly declining, is deeply problematic. With the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in session in Colombia this week, it's time to take stock. There are millions of people who will pay considerable sums just to see wildlife. There are others who are prepared to pay equal amounts to kill it. In between are governments which, though tasked with […]

October 31, 2024

Africa

Africa: How Traffickers Got Away With the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History

[ad_1] Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood from Madagascar, the logs sit in limbo in a Singapore port. On 11 March, 2014, the MV Oriental Pride, a 100-metre-long, roughly 5,000-ton, Kelly green cargo ship, arrived in the port of Jurong, Singapore, where it was met by agents with Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority. Aboard, the agents discovered an amazing haul: some 30,000 Madagascar rosewood […]

October 31, 2024

Africa

Africa: Mining Must Become More Responsible and Sustainable. Where Hi-Tech Solutions Fit in

[ad_1] If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds - workers descending in elevators to underground shafts, the roar of truck engines - will be much the same as they have been for decades. But, like many other industries, mining is changing. Digital mining involves the use of digital technologies to make mining operations more efficient, safer, and sustainable. This industry emerged […]

October 31, 2024

Africa

Africa: Food Security Is Key to Making ‘Peace With Nature’

[ad_1] Cali, Colombia — As countries are meeting in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 16), the fate of biodiversity hangs in the balance, and with it, the sustainability of our food systems. Agriculture and food systems are often associated with biodiversity loss. Land-use change, climate change, pollution, overexploitation of wild species, and the spread of invasive species - the main drivers of biodiversity loss - can all be linked to unsustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable agriculture […]

October 30, 2024

Entertainment

Africa: State Fragmentation and New State Imaginaries – Maritime Access in the Horn of Africa

[ad_1] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name. In the latest development around […]

October 30, 2024

Africa

Africa: Scientific Research Can Play a Key Role in Unlocking Climate Finance

[ad_1] Climate finance will come under intense scrutiny during COP29, and its distribution aligned with scientific analysis of the impacts of climate change, but the methodology ignores the inequality in research networks of the Global South. CARACAS, Oct 29 2024 (IPS) - Climate finance will be at the epicenter of the discussion at the UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29). The focus will be on strengthening the fund and defining the conditions under which the countries of the Global South […]

October 30, 2024

Africa

Africa: At COP16, Guterres Urges World to ‘Choose Wisely…Make Peace With Nature’

[ad_1] UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for decisive action to restore harmony with nature, warning that environmental crises are pushing humanity toward tipping points that threaten ecosystems, livelihoods and global stability. Speaking at the opening of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), he emphasized that "making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century." "Nature is life. And yet we are waging a war against it - […]

October 30, 2024

Environment