Johannesburg Green News

Eat less meat, have smaller herds of animals, switch to more efficient stoves that pollute less, and develop more sustainable public transport systems are some of the lifestyle changes and technical fixes that could save millions of lives and reduce...

In all the talk about adapting to climate change, "scant attention" is being paid to "the dangers of ... [adaptation strategies] going astray in fragile and conflict-affected" countries, warned a report released on 28 November. Just under three billion people...

The humanitarian aid community will not only be keeping tabs on the conversations about "who will cut how much [greenhouse gas emissions]" at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), but will also have their antennae tuned to...

For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia�s central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains. Now, they find themselves working cheek by jowl with...

Copenhagen next month.     Sudan's Lumumba Di-Aping, chairman of the G77 group of developing nations, insisted that rich countries cut emissions by 40 percent by 2020, as proposed by UN scientists.     This is considerably higher than the aggregate 16 percent on...

The cruel reality is that Africa's adaptation strategy for climate change depends on the reduction targets that annex 1 countries -- industrialised countries that accepted legally binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol -- are prepared to take on.