Big oil uncovered 🛢️🏍️🚨 ‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as #renewable Lobbying group spent nearly $30m on ads touting ‘#cleanenergy’ potential of propane – and downplaying full climate impacts. 🧵..... Read more: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j…

Italy-Africa Summit 🚨 Fadhel Kaboub, Senior Advisor, Power Shift Africa spoke to Beatrice Marshall of CGTN Africa about the #ItalyAfricaSummit. "#Africa should be at the forefront in developing its own economic transformation strategy" - Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Watch 📺 🎧👇

Lorraine Chiponda, Co-facilitator, Africa Movement Building Space spoke to TRT World on the importance of empowering and protecting Indigenous #women. "Empowering #Indigenous women is crucial in achieving social and economic changes that foster #sustainabledevelopment."

Agricultural adaptation: Solarising farms for food security For generations, the arid and wild expanse of Wajir County in Kenya has been a graze land for livestock of the local pastoral community. By solarising boreholes & irrigating farms, however, the vast wilderness is now

James, mishaps do not befall us, they are born of missteps from the very outset. Two questions we should ask ourselves; ✅ For a project of this magnitude, did a bank guarantee exist? ✅ If so, which bank issued the guarantee, and was there any collateral?

John Kerry worked to restore US 🇺🇸 climate leadership. Was it enough? Mohamed Adow: "Many in the developing world felt Mr. Kerry focused too much on wealthier actors. The U.S. still has a long way to improve its record on #climatechange." csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2… Mohamed Adow

#GeoEngineering risks 🚨 Why cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space is a dangerous distraction. Human-caused #climatechange is already one planetary-scale experiment too many – we don’t need another. theconversation.com/not-such-a-bri…

DAY PRES. RUTO BLEW A FUSE OVER BLACKOUTS & WHY POWER LINES ARE NOT DEVELOPMENT In Aug 2023, Kenya experienced the longest ever national blackout. So bad was it that the Cabinet had to meet. But the problem was bigger than just a power outage. Here’s what had happened...🧵

#WomensDay2024 Celebrating African women leading #ClimateAction ✅Lorraine Chiponda Born in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, Lorraine Chiponda is the facilitator of the Don’t Gas Africa movement. It works to ensure Africa is not locked into fossil gas production and it works with movements

Mohamed Adow, director, Power Shift Africa: "#Carbonmarkets are a new form of #colonialism. After failing to mitigate at the source, polluters now want to buy, on the cheap, African land. This reality is distressing. We must come up with solutions that will confront these

It was such an honour to share one of my most cherished projects focusing on #climatechange #adaptation and #resilience stories in #Africa with Moritz Hauer of TMG Think Tank and Leonida Odongo, founder, Haki Nawiri. James Kahongeh

French multinational #oilandgas giant TotalEnergies celebrates 100 years in operation. The company’s relentless pursuit of profit has come at the expense of #Africa’s most vulnerable communities and irreplaceable #ecosystems. #climatecrisis mg.co.za/the-green-guar…

Undeterred by the multitudes whose lives hang in the balance, TotalEnergies clings with covetousness to the monstrous EACOP project! A blatant case of "mammon" prevailing over man. A tactic Total has long employed to appease the insatiable appetite of its shareholders!

The World Bank has courted controversy over transparency issues, with claims of operating opaquely floated over the years. The bank, together with @IMF, is said to push for undesirable #economic policies in developing countries, locking them in a cycle of dependency.

Do you ever struggle to understand #climateadaptation? Well, you have more than enough answers in the flooded streets & homes across Kenya. Our infrastructure is NOT built for extreme weather events. The future is even worse. Until we climate-proof our built environment.

Universal access to sustainable #cleancooking not only improves the quality of life but helps mitigate the impacts of the changing #climate. #LPG widely promoted as the core solution to #Africa’s clean cooking crisis, is not the answer. 🧵1/2...

The Nairobi city skyline bears witness to the passage of time. From its humble beginnings as a railway depot to the soaring heights of modernity, Nairobi's infrastructure has been the canvas upon which its history is painted. #EAIREexpo2024 #NairobiSkyline #Infrastructure

Victor Odhiambo (Victor Edwin Odhiambo ) of Power Shift Africa: "Bringing community voices to the forefront of #storytelling has never been more urgent. The photobook (Resurgence) was a clear testament that Africans are not taking punches lying down. Instead, they are standing tall and

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I will be travelling ✈️to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to deliver a talk on #climate #storytelling in Africa. To a global audience no less! What science & climate #communications has done for me, I lack words! ☺️