Africa
Podcast: How can countries like Malawi benefit from the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism?
In the seventeenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, Charles Chikapa explores the benefits of the CDM for Malawi.
Rio+20: International reaction to the sustainable development outcome
Politicians, diplomats and activists from around the globe review the Future We Want document and the process that produced.
PODCAST: How does the CDM benefit sustainable development
In the fourteenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Ugonma Cokey, from Voice of Nigeria traveled to Bonn to explore how the CDM is contributing to sustainable development.
PODCAST: Benefits of the CDM for African Communities
In the thirteenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, Nigerian journalist Ugonma Cokey, travelled to Bonn, Germany, home of the UNFCCC to explore both the benefits and the limitations to the CDM in Africa.
UNFCCC launches latest round of CDM Radio competition
Following the first round of the CDM African Radio contest, the UNFCCC opens the second round of applications entitled “Changing Lives”.
PODCAST: Creating jobs from solar in South Africa
In the twelfth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, David Mwanza from Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation visits a CDM project in Durban, South Africa.
PODCAST: Turning waste to energy in South Africa
In the eleventh in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Wambi Michael, a radio producer in Uganda, examines the potential for energy from waste in Africa.
Can South Africa spark a clean energy revolution across the continent?
Government is addressing energy security, development and carbon emissions with pioneering public-private partnership.
PODCAST: Realising the potential for the CDM in Africa
In the tenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, the UNFCCC’s Irini Roumboglou talks to a project developer about a waste-to-energy project in Cote d’Ivoire.
How copying nature can stop desertification in its tracks
Daniela Ibarra-Howell writes for RTCC about how lessons can be taken from nature to successfully manage livestock and reduce desertification in Africa.
World’s poorest countries set for climate cash boost
Changes to UN and EU rules mean more cash will be available to African nations through the projects to tackle climate change and boost sustainable development.
PODCAST: Fulfilling the potential for the CDM in Africa
In the sixth of a series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports the UNFCCC’s Irini Roumboglou finds out more about how Clean Development Mechanism could benefit Africa and why more projects haven’t been registered in the region.
IEA: Overseas aid to Africa outweighed by oil imports
New figures show that countries in Africa are spending more on importing oil than they are receiving in overseas aid. Renewables investment could free up development funds.
PODCAST: How efficient cooking stoves can cut emissions in Zambia
In the third of a series of UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism Radio Club reports, David Mwanza from Zambia’s National Broadcasting Cooperation takes a closer look coal fire cook stoves in the country.
Podcast: How does the Clean Development Mechanism benefit Africa?
In the second of a series of UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism Radio Club reports, Irini Roumboglou takes a closer look at the benefits of the CDM in Africa.
Climate change should be considered as security threat says African Union
Speaking at a conference of 14 African countries, experts urged for climate change to be considered as a security issue as well as an environmental one.
Podcast: Impact of 2007 floods in Uganda
In the first of a series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports, Emmanuel Okella talks about the effect severe flooding had on Uganda in 2007, and how the country is recovering.
Solar revolution could bring power to 1.4 billion people
Affordable pay as you go solar power is bringing electricity to some of the world’s poorest nations.
New Horn of Africa drought warning
Experts say region set for more misery after worst drought in six decades hit last year.
Coastal erosion major threat to West Africa
In the second blog from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Isabelle Niang writes about the threat to West Africa from rapid coastal erosion.