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Can 365 Years of Climate History Help Prevent Crises in East Africa?
For a long time, a majority of African countries have not been proactively mitigating the negative impact of drought and flood events. As...
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Climate Change Doesn't Care About Our Plans - That's Why Cities Need to Plan for Climate Cha
Mayors need to look at the worst case scenario and consider how their city would cope if the situation were twice or three times worse....
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U.S. and Syria will soon be the only countries not in the Paris Agreement
President Donald Trump dubbed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime a “dictatorship” and a “criminal regime” in his U.N. General...
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Zuma expresses SA's commitment to tackling climate change
President Jacob Zuma attended the Meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change at the UN...
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Poor rains in Kenya deepens drought
The number of children in need of life-saving aid continues to grow in Kenya amid one of most punishing droughts in years and another...
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Women empowered to withstand climate change effects
“A few years ago, climate change was considered gender-neutral, which works on climate issues,” states Naoko Ishii, chief executive of...
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World's poor bearing the brunt of global crises, stresses UN rights expert
Impacts of climate change and the global economic crisis are compounding the threats faced by people living in poverty around the world,...
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Giving New Life to Degraded Lands in Small Island Developing States
An FAO partnership with Google is helping collect and analyse land degradation data. Speeding up efforts to reverse or prevent land...
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Morocco is Still a Climate Change Champion
From September 11-13 the city of Agadir hosted the second annual Climate Chance Summit. It was the largest gathering yet of non-state...
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Ethiopia: Forum Eyes Enhanced National Metrology, Hydrology Services
African Ministerial Council on Meteorology (AMCOMET), Africa Hydromet Forum 2017 aims to improve the capability of national hydrology and...