Go Green or Die! By Mukosha Funga

Imagine the world 50 years from now if people do not take an active role in fighting climate change.

IMAGINE the year is 2060 and you have finally managed to get enough money to visit the 7th wonder of the world; the Victoria falls. As the guide leads you to your destination, you have high expectations.

Before you realise it, you ground to a halt and hear the guide saying 'this is it'. You discover you are standing at a deep narrow steep-sided valley; a ravine. It is a lifeless place.

No water cascading over masses of rocks. No lush greenery on the banks. Coarse dried up grass and grey-brown rocks are all that meet the eye.

On Climate Justice We Stand. By Friday Nathaniel Efik

Can Kyoto Protocol Be Doha Protocol or Doha Accord?

There’s no gainsaying the fact that some developed countries are plotting the death of the Kyoto Protocol; to say the obvious, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark also known as the 15th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP15), would have indeed laid a foundation of a new treaty to either replace the Kyoto Protocol or become a Post-Kyoto agreement; Perhaps the ‘Copenhagen Accord’ which was the outcome of COP15 would have completely become a ‘sealed deal’ as it was originally proposed, but unfortunately, the truth came as no surprise as Article 3.9 of the Kyoto Protocol (with emphasis added) which provides that: “Commitments for subsequent periods for Parties included to Annex 1 shall be established in amendments to Annex B to the Protocol, which shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 7” was used as a political tool in the hands of some ‘senior’ Annex 1 Part(ies).

Zero Carbon Africa Organizes “ARTing CLIMATE CHANGE”

Sequel to the BBC World Service Trust 2008 report which states that climate change awareness in Nigeria could be as low as 1%, Zero Carbon Africa – an alliance of youth-led/focused organisations and young individuals committed to championing grassroots innovative solutions to climate change and empowering young people on environmental sustainability issues across Africa have come up with a coordinated approach to educate Nigerians on the dangers posed by climate change through an event tagged “ARTing CLIMATE CHANGE”.

Young Climate Activist Decide

The Nigerian chapter of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) votes for its national leaders. The elections would usher in a new team to lead this awesome network for the next two years (2012-2014) with a clear mandate to position AYICC as the Nigerian/African youth network supporting Nigerian/African governments in proffering sustainable solutions to problems attributable to climate change.