If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint (a measure of its demand on nature) will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, according to a publication to be released by Global Footprint Network on Tuesday, October 20. A number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that [...]
Africa’s Demand on Nature Approaching Critical Limits
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · africa, ecological, food, footprint, fuel, global footprint, population, shortages, sustainable, Water
Climate Change Does Not Wait For Recessions
March 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Lack of money and technical know-how makes it difficult for poor farmers to participate in the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon trading mechanism aimed at reversing global warming. Meanwhile, the global economic crisis may further undermine investment in carbon trade in African countries.
The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, allows for carbon trade which involves industrialised countries lowering [...]
Tags: · africa, banks, Clean Development Mechanism, Climate change, depression, finance, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, markets, recession, shares, stock, United Nation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United States
Power-hungry Senegal to go solar in energy overhaul
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Senegal hopes to rein in surging electricity prices, reduce frequent blackouts and power most of its street lighting through an energy policy using solar panels, the government said Friday.
Located on Africa’s west coast at one end of the arid Sahel belt south of the Sahara, Senegal has huge solar potential but has so far lacked [...]
Tags: · africa, electricity, power, senegal, solar
Biofuel Invasion Plagues Africa
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Check out this excellent article from our friends at Envirovore. Read on below:
Biofuel firms from Britain, Netherlands, the United States, Sweden, Japan, Canada and Germany among others are flocking to Africa to secure land. The British firm Sun Biofuels and the Norwegian firm, Biofuel Africa have already secured hundreds of thousands of acres.
Tags: · africa, AIB, biofuel, blog, environmental, envirovore, inconvenient, invasion, plagues
Hunger in Africa blamed on western rejection of GM food
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
The rise of organic farming and rejection of GM crops in Britain and other developed countries is largely to blame for the impoverishment of Africa, according to the government’s former chief scientist.
Tags: · africa, AIB, blamed, blog, environmental, food, gm, hunger, inconvenient, rejection, western
West Africa’s coastline redrawn by climate change: experts
August 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Rising sea levels caused by climate change will brutally redraw a 4,000-kilometre (2500-mile) stretch of west African coastline from Senegal to Cameroon by century’s end, experts were told AFP Friday.
“The cost of Guinea will cease to exist by the end of this century,” said Stefan Cramer, a marine geologist and head of German green group [...]
Tags: · africa, AIB, blog, cameroon, change, climate, coastline, environmental, inconvenient, levels, redrawn, rising, sea, senegal, west
Rising food prices pushing east Africa to disaster, warns Oxfam
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.
In an emergency appeal launched today, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed “towards severe hunger and destitution”. Earlier this [...]
Tags: · africa, AIB, disaster, east, environmental, food, inconvenient, Oxfam, prices, rising
Climate change may cut South Africa corn crop sharply
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Climate change could cut South Africa’s maize crop by 20 percent within 15 to 20 years as the west of the country dries out while the east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms, its environment minister said on Sunday.
Tags: · africa, AIB, blog, change, climate, corn, crop, cut, environmental, inconvenient, sharply, south
Pirate fishing boats target Africa
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
There is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world’s poor countries – and in many of the richer ones too.
It usually happens out of sight, and most perpetrators get away with it.
The monetary value of this theft is about $15bn per year; the ecological cost can only be [...]
Tags: · africa, AIB, blog, boats, environmental, fishing, inconvenient, pirate, target
Biggest ever protection fund set up for Congo basin
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
The biggest ever fund set up to battle deforestation was launched today, targeting the vast Congo basin rainforest in central Africa. Britain and Norway are providing £108m and will also supply satellite imaging technology to monitor the area.
The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative [...]
Tags: · africa, AIB, basin, blog, congo, environmental, fund, inconvenient, protection, rainforest
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