Environmental sustainability
Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’
Successful trials found growing crops beneath panels – known as agrivoltaics – reduced water loss and resulted in larger plants
Geoffrey Kamadi in Nairobi
22, Feb, 2022 @9:51 AM
We know who caused the climate crisis – but they don’t want to pay for it | Vanessa Nakate
My country, Uganda, and much of Africa has been battered by climate-related disasters. Cop26 is a chance for the biggest polluters to set up a compensation fund
Vanessa Nakate
29, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
Covid restrictions could hinder Cop26 delegates and observers
‘My fear is that we will see fewer delegates from some of the most afflicted countries,’ a Cop26 insider from a developing nation says
The Secret Negotiator
09, Oct, 2021 @7:00 AM
‘Betting on a low-carbon future’: why China is ending foreign coal investment
Xi Jinping’s promise reflects growing awareness of the climate crisis in China and falling renewable prices
Vincent Ni
22, Sep, 2021 @2:17 PM
‘Ecofeminism is about respect’: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming
Mariama Sonko is an unstoppable force who continued her work even when she was ostracised by her community in Senegal
Ricci Shryock in Casamance
22, Sep, 2021 @7:01 AM
Nearly all global farm subsidies harm people and planet – UN
Almost 90% of the $540bn of support a year harms people’s health, the climate and drives inequality
Damian Carrington Environment editor
14, Sep, 2021 @1:00 PM
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
The livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake’s occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently
Madalitso Wills Kateta in Zomba, Malawi
30, Aug, 2021 @6:00 AM
Campaigners lose court case to stop Ugandan forest clearance
Court ruling gives go-ahead for sugar plantation in Bugoma forest, home to endangered chimpanzees
Samuel Okiror in Kampala
13, May, 2021 @3:10 PM
UK support for Mozambique gas plant fuelling conflict – Friends of the Earth
Environmental group warns UK’s £750m funding for fossil fuel project could worsen Isis-led insurgency
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
15, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM
Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit over big business links
Focus on agro-business rather than ecology has split groups invited to planned UN conference on hunger
John Vidal
04, Mar, 2021 @12:32 PM
Covid turns tide on India's Ganesh festival traditions
Thousands of ritual statues are dunked into the sea off Mumbai each year – but Covid and pollution are forcing change
Gautam Doshi in Mumbai
28, Aug, 2020 @5:30 AM
'A shame for the world': Uganda's fragile forest ecosystem destroyed for sugar
Conservationists say clearance of Bugomo reserve for plantation is blow to biodiversity and country’s reputation on wildlife
Samuel Okiror in Kampala
18, Jun, 2020 @6:15 AM
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