VIDEO: Malawi joins climate change fight

United Nation Resident coordinator Mr Alvaro Rodrigues has urged young people to be in forefront of dealings concerning  climate change and reducing its impact.

African leaders have agreed to have one voice on Climate Change effects during the coming meeting with the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, to be held in New York late next month.

This summer is likely to see a series of attacks by industry opponents of a US plan to curb carbon emissions from power plants in a bid to stir voter anger ahead of elections in November, when voters in states such as Kentucky and West Virginia may determine whether Democrats keep control of the Senate.

The cocoa industry in West Africa is under threat from rising global temperatures.

The issue before the world, at this point in time, is not about why climate change is a threat and who is to blame for it. The most important matter before us now is about how to adapt and how to mitigate climate change effects.

In commemoration of World Malaria Day 2015, a day that gives people the chance to promote and learn about the efforts made to prevent and reduce Malaria around the world, Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL), a subsidiary of Pan Africa Power Solutions (T) Limited (PAP), will join the rest of the world to support efforts of eradicating malaria cases in Tanzania.

According to a statement released yesterday by the Company Secretary and Chief Counsel, Mr. Joseph Makandege, the Company will...

We are also proposing an Africa Wide Programme on Mitigation. Africa is not a big emitter of greenhouse gases, but we see a lot of merit and benefit in the continent charting out an environment friendly development path. Indeed Africa’s contribution to climate change from fossil energy and transport sources in the global context is but only worth a footnote.

Some $10 billion has been pledged at the just-ended Climate Change talks in Lima, Peru organised by the UN for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to mitigate the impact of global warming.

For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and citizens about the need for an urgent global response