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Climate change has cost Southern Africa R640bn since 1980
By: News24Wire 16th March 2022 About 36% of the natural disasters that have occurred in Africa in the past four decades were in Southern Africa and they carried an estimated... →
South Africa’s new climate finance deal for the low carbon transition a step in the right direction
9th December 2021 South Africa’s $8.5-billion climate finance deal to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel dependency is a step in the right direction.... →
Planned relocation: a hard but vital part of climate adaptation
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th November 2021 The links between climate change and human mobility have been understudied and underreported, but things are changing. In the past decade,... →
Climate finance isn’t reaching Southern Africa’s most vulnerable
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 3rd November 2021 Despite contributing little to climate change, Southern Africa is among the worst-affected regions globally. And those who are bearing the brunt... →
UN warns of 'climate change famine'
By: Reuters 11th October 2021 Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He's happy if there's a handful of rice. But with six young kids and a wife to support, he... →
Gauteng ‘day-zero drought’ is South Africa’s biggest near-term climate risk, IPCC scientist warns 
By: Terence Creamer 19th August 2021 A leading South African climate scientist believes a ‘Gauteng day-zero drought’ represents the biggest near-term climate change risk faced by the... →
Insights for African countries from the latest climate change projections
12th August 2021 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a body of the UN tasked with providing scientific information on climate change – has... →
Madagascar needs to change the plot
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th August 2021 It started ‘like a bad spy novel’ – as one Malagasy commentator put it. In July, an amateurish coup plot was hatched by a seemingly Walter... →
