Climate – Views & Research – The Conversation

Insects in the tropics are already near their heat limits – climate change could push many beyond survival

Kim Holzmann, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

An area of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon, taken from the Tall Tower Observatory.

Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths

Dominick Spracklen, University of Leeds

Heatwaves will be worst for rural parts of Africa – new model shows tens of millions face dangerous warming by 2100

Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Australian National University

A small town of about 50 houses, no trees and a brown desert background with some treeless mountains nearby

Ice Shock is a novel about passionate love in a time of climate crisis

Rodwell Makombe, North-West University

An iceberg with a hole in it looks sculptural and foreboding.

Four people, one of them with crutches, seated next to a pile of mattresses wrapped in plastic

Kenya’s double climate crisis: it needs funds to adapt, and disaster aid is damaging the environment

Catherine Wanjiku Nyambura, Uganda Technology and Management University

South Africa needs R250 billion just to meet basic climate adaptation needs over the next decade

Anna Taylor, University of Cape Town

An urban four-storey building where the bottom storey and a parking lot have been washed away by floods

Climate finance has failed Africa twice over – how to fix it

Lisa Sachs, Columbia University

Workers in hard hats looking at a road that has been damaged

Protestors holding up placards reading 'Great Wealth Carries Greater Responsibility', 'Tax the Super Rich', 'Africa lead the way: UN Tax Convention for all'

Why Africa needs a green bank to fund climate action and build its own renewable technology

Howard Stein, University of Michigan and Michael Olabisi, Michigan State University

A man stares at numbers and graphs on a screen

Africa needs to fight for a better deal on world trade rules: it should lead the charge on these 3 priorities at this week’s WTO meeting

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Dalhousie University and Janet Macharia, Strathmore University

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Solutions

Two mountains covered with grass, trees and shrubs

Carbon capture in rural South Africa: projects show how fighting climate change can create rural jobs – research

Simbarashe Ndhleve, Walter Sisulu University; Hlekani Muchazotida Kabiti, Walter Sisulu University, and Leonard Chitongo, Walter Sisulu University

Electric vehicles could soon be cheaper than petrol cars in Africa – if financing barriers fall

Christian Moretti, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Bessie Noll, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Africa needs 50 million new homes, but building is bad for the environment: how to finance ‘green’ solutions

Jonathan Oladeji, University of Johannesburg and Chioma Okoro, University of Johannesburg

A man standing in front of a one story, modern wooden house with a solar panel and lots of green trees and bushes around it.

A water solution for drought-prone South Africa: we designed systems to replenish aquifers simply and cheaply in five towns

Surina Esterhuyse, University of the Free State; Danita Hohne, University of the Free State, and Fanus Fourie, University of the Free State

Parched and cracked brown landscape with not a single plant, stretching for miles

South Africa’s carbon tax should stay: climate scientists explain why

Britta Rennkamp, University of Cape Town; Andrew Marquard, University of Cape Town; Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town; Harald Winkler, University of Cape Town; Mark New, University of Cape Town; Melanie Murcott, University of Cape Town; Ralph Hamann, University of Cape Town, and Wikus Kruger, University of Cape Town

A paper making factory with clouds of smoke coming out of towers

Green Transition

Blue rectangular panels and orange plastic lanterns; hands holding a cellphone connected to a device with wires

Solar power in rural Zimbabwe hasn’t reduced women’s unpaid work: can policy do better?

Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg

Critical mineral supply faces risks if local communities aren’t consulted enough: the case of lithium in Ghana

Clement Sefa-Nyarko, King's College London

Solar power is taking off in Malawi: but poor households need financial help to make it work for them

Pam Jagger, University of Michigan; Charles B.L. Jumbe, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Congyi Dai, University of Michigan; Ryan McCord, Duke University, and Thabbie Chilongo, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Four people outside a rural home with a tiny solar panel about A4 size

What’s stopping sunny South Africa’s solar industry? Court case sheds light on the wider problem

Wikus Kruger, University of Cape Town

Two workers stand on a roof fitting solar panels onto it

Africa’s critical minerals are a huge economic opportunity: G20 framework sets out ways to seize it

Glen Nwaila, University of the Witwatersrand and Grant Bybee

A group of women in a muddy lake, washing something in bags and buckets

Zambia’s factories burn too much coal – how reusing hot water can cut energy use

Paul Coughlan, Trinity College Dublin and Aonghus McNabola

A factory photographed from outside with a pipe sticking up into the air and large amounts of steam pouring out

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Climate crisis

A woman sits outside peeling the brown skins off a tuber, next to a pile of the tubers. Peeled ones are in a separate bucket.

Climate change could pose a major risk to cassava in Africa: study sets out what can be done now

Geofrey Wingi Sikazwe, University of Dar es Salaam

Sea levels around Africa are rising faster than the global average: what’s behind this alarming trend

Franck Ghomsi, University of Cape Town

Ghana’s cities are getting hotter: they need more trees to keep them cool

Yaw Agyeman Boafo, University of Ghana

African climate science-policy has a serious blind spot: the slowing Atlantic circulation

Guy Franklin Midgley, Stellenbosch University and Pedro M.S. Monteiro, Stellenbosch University

Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa

Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Australian National University

A bright hot sun set against an orange background

Climate change is hurting Kenyan women working in coastal tourism – they explain how

Lucy Atieno, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)

Loungers and umbrella on a beach, with a stone wall in the background

Climate crisis is a daily reality for many African communities: how to try and protect them

Decide Mabumbo, CGIAR

A woman stands inside her compound, in floodwaters up to her knees

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Justice

Lines of solar panels stretching across the ground about 20 soccer fields big

South Africa’s power utility Eskom tried to block a gold mine from going solar – but lost in court

Angela van der Berg, University of the Western Cape

Mining companies and land rights in South Africa: how environmentalists have used the law to defend communities

Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba, National University of Lesotho

Protestors marching in the street with a man in front holding up a placard that says 'Go to Hell, Shell'

Activists in Ghana are forcing extractive firms to account for the harm they cause – corporate abuse study

Cynthia Kwakyewah, York University, Canada

Large pieces of equipment in an open mine, with clouds of dust

The G20 was built to stabilise the world’s economy – but it’s failed on climate, debt and inequality

Rasigan Maharajh, Tshwane University of Technology

TotalEnergies: French court ruling over false climate claims could boost African cases against polluters

Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala, University of the Witwatersrand and Tracy-Lynn Field, University of the Witwatersrand

People holding a banner next to a harbour. The banner says "Kick Total out of Africa" and the people have giant cardboard shoes attached to their legs and are making kicking motions

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