This is brilliant and critically important. Global South scientists and climate negotiators are calling for climate mitigation scenarios that are consistent with global justice principles. africanarguments.org/2024/04/modell…

The decision to call off UN regional climate weeks exposes rich nations’ lack of goodwill. Funding these would cost them little but provide a potentially invaluable forum for developing countries.

Read Fati N'Zi-Hassane’s piece for African Arguments ⬇️

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Calling off UN regional climate weeks exposes rich nations’ lack of goodwill, writes Fati N'Zi-Hassane. africanarguments.org/2024/04/callin…

🚨Last month, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) held a meet where they raised concerns about inequities in #IPCC Integrated Assessment Modelling. Other Global South scientists & experts have also pointed out issues. For African Arguments
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Climate-economic models 'only consider transformational changes in technology, but assume business as usual economic trajectories' and thus 'project unequal futures where developing countries remain poor for decades', says Tejal Kanitkar

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'Finally, experts in the Global South point to a need for diversity and inclusion in the modelling community. Almost all IAMs are currently developed in the Global North in institutions based in countries like Switzerland, Germany, and the US.' #PHAM2024 #PlanetaryHealth

#Climate #models that assume the Global North will continue to over-emit help perpetuate global inequalities and violate principles of equity and climate justice, warn scientists and experts in the South.

By Rishika Pardikar.

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Everything now seems to boil down to means, or ability. Or stupidity.
That's the price the world powers will pay for refusing to stick to their own rules, just because the ones complaining about the injustice were only a small people. Kalundi Serumaga 👏🏿👊🏿

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On the anniversary of #Sudan war, what do military tactics in Sudan suggest about the prospects of reaching peace? latest from #DebateIdeas African Arguments 'On The Offensive: Military Tactics and Peace Talks for Sudan's Takeover'.
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My latest for African Arguments with support from Earth Journalism Network: South Africa's energy crisis is provoking an unprecedented solar boom - but it has a downside.

Rooftop #solar capacity in #SouthAfrica has increased by 453% in just over two years📈

This takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening an #energyapartheid

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🎂 #Total Energies at 100 years old🎂

Mass displacements, environmental damage, and mega CO2 emissions from projects in #Mozambique and #Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story of #Total in #Africa .

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'The one interest [ #JETPs ] undeniably serve is the perpetuation of the policy circuit.

In this arena, practical effectiveness is not necessarily the main driver of further policy generation. In fact, failure may be more productive.'
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Despite being targeted by the police and courts, youth climate activists in #Uganda say the dangers of #EACOP going ahead remain greater than those of protesting. africanarguments.org/2024/03/the-pa…

An excellent op-ed written by our bright editor Mathew C. De Waal for African Arguments looking at IGAD's future in the age of conflict and geopolitical tensions.

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Critique of Just Energy Transition Partnerships by Adam Tooze for African Arguments. 'ambitious & professionally designed policies that whip up enthusiasm in ranks of analysts, think tanks, NGOs & pundits but no prospect of materially affecting reality.'

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Sahan's Editor looks at multilateralism and IGAD in the Horn amid the rise of the Gulf powers for African Arguments. Give it a read below!

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When is a policy not a policy? 🦆

Adam Tooze unpacks the curious case of the oddly hollow #JustEnergyTransitionPartnership ( #JETP )

#SouthAfrica #Senegal #climate

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Malawi 🇲🇼 farmers urged to diversify from national staple as yields drop

While maize harvests plummeted after #Cyclone Freddy and #ElNiño , and look set to stay low, other crops have shown more #resilience .

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👉Gene-editing is part of a system that imagines a #food system made up of automated monocropping farms, highly processed biotech #crops , corporate control, and enormous #profits , despite all extensively proven risks.

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