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Climate Change

Cyclone Idai is over – but its health effects will be felt for a long time

15th April 2019 Kerrigan McCarthy Lucille Blumberg 0

People in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe have started trying to rebuild their lives after the devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai. Southern Malawi and Mozambique were already […]

Poor coverage of floods in southern Africa? Blame the media bosses

26th March 2019 Glenda Daniels 0

South African media has been criticised on social media for its initially superficial and underwhelming coverage of the massive floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi […]

Tropical cyclone Idai: The storm that knew no boundaries

25th March 2019 Jennifer Fitchett 0

Tropical cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the […]

Cape Town has a plan to manage its water. But there are big gaps

28th February 2019 Jasper Knight 0

Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand The City of Cape Town – and southwest Africa more generally – experienced its worst drought on record between […]

How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation

26th February 2019 Busisiwe Shezi Caradee Yael Wright Renee Street 0

All the evidence tells us that the world’s changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for people’s health too. Southern Africa is […]

Small businesses in Africa will be on the frontline of climate change

10th December 2018 Kate Elizabeth Gannon Dedan Conway 0

Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa. Harvests will be affected, threatening agricultural outputs. This could hurt […]

Transition is a given, but what can trade unions in the Global South do to ensure that it’s just?

5th December 2018 Equal Times 0

The 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) begins in Katowice, Poland in a […]

Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say ’protect the workers’, but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”

10th October 2018 Equal Times 0

Joséphine Shimbi Umba is vice president of gender, the informal economy and finance at the Trade Union Confederation of Congo (La Confédération Syndicale du Congo, […]

As Kerala succumbs to the sea, the Indian government ramps up coastal construction

8th October 2018 Equal Times 0

Between June and August this year, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced the heaviest rainfall it had seen in over a century. More than […]

Are Africa’s climate negotiators ready for COP24?

4th September 2018 Equal Times 0

Africa’s efficacy in global climate negotiations may only have been the subject of a short session during a two-day workshop on climate change in Africa […]

Can Saint-Louis be saved from the sea?

13th August 2018 Equal Times 0

“You see? Right there, two metres down!” The water is murky and choppy, but it is still possible to see the roofs of some small […]

Latin America’s environmental challenge

9th August 2018 Equal Times 0

For the 45 million indigenous people of Latin America, their link with the environment goes beyond its potential use as a resource to a spiritual […]

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