Africa
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Conservation Measures Avert Cape Town’s Day Zero, But Tensions Remain
While technical fixes like lowering municipal water pressure helped Cape Town keep the taps on through its recent drought, it was the city’s carefully ... -
AfricaAsiaDrawdownDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsOff-GridPathways to 1.5Wind
Micro Wind Would Save 200 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Micro wind places #76 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. If its share of global electricity generation increases to 1%, it could eliminate 0.2 gigatons of carbon ... -
AfricaAsiaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesMexico, Caribbean & Latin AmericaPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSmall Island States
Climate-Vulnerable Countries Plan New Tools to Fund Green Development
With at least a billion people in developing countries facing serious risk as the climate warms, the 48 members of the Vulnerable Twenty Group ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsElectricity GridHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & Studies
Cooling to Avert Heat Stress Could Cost African Regions $487 Billion by 2076
It will cost three key regions of Africa as much as US$487 billion in energy use by 2076 to deal with increased heat stress ... -
AfricaAuto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageBuildingsCanadaCitiesCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEuropeFood SecurityForests & DeforestationJobsMethanePathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSoil & Natural SequestrationSolarSouth & Central AmericaTransitUnited StatesWalking & BikingWind
Lookback from 2050: NPR Essay Shows How We Got Climate Change Under Control
It’s 2050. We’ve got climate change under control. And we got the job done through mass electrification, reimagining cities, protecting forests, and changing the ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseOil & GasSevere Storms & Flooding
738 Dead, 1.8 Million in Urgent Need, Cholera Cases Hit 271 as Cyclone Impacts Wrack Mozambique
Half a month after Cyclone Idai ripped through parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, destroying 90% of the port city of Beira, the numbers ... -
AfricaBatteries/StorageClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJurisdictionsOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionRenewable EnergySolarUnited States
Rive Brothers Join Solar+Storage Firm to Help Africa ‘Leapfrog the Electric Grid’
SolarCity co-founders Lyndon and Peter Rive, cousins of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, are signing on with ZOLA Electric, a Silicon Valley effort to bring ... -
AfricaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationHydroSevere Storms & Flooding
Humanitarian Disaster in Mozambique Points to ‘Fundamental Injustice of Climate Change’
With thousands of people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi still in need of rescue in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, and nearly three million ...
