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You can now participate in the Climate Change AI Summer School 2023

Do you have a background in artificial intelligence (AI) and/or fields pertaining to climate change? Are you interested in tackling major climate problems using AI? Then this is for you!   Registration and applications are now open for the Climate Change AI Summer School 2023. This second Climate Change AI

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Saving the Planet Sustainability

5 practical ways e-commerce companies in Africa can decarbonize their operations

E-commerce in Africa is experiencing rapid growth, thanks to technological advancements and companies' hunger to drive sales and meet customers' needs.   According to Statista, the number of online shoppers in Africa in 2020 was 281 million, with an estimated increase of about 520 million by 2025.   While the

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Recycling Saving the Planet

7 ways you can promote recycling via community engagement

We've established that we all can play a modest but significant role in conserving the environment and restoring the grandeur of our communities by recycling waste. However, there's still a lot to be done about improving municipal recycling efforts.   While recycling has gone mainstream and is being adopted in

Racial justice - climateaction
Advocacy

No climate justice without racial justice

In recent years, we have witnessed climate disasters break out from different parts of the world, leaving the environments which we once turned to for solace in an unsafe state — threatening our health, livelihood, ecosystem, and our very existence.   A significant number of people have fled their homes

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Saving the Planet

Farmer? Learn from these 4 startups improving crop yield with innovation

The agriculture sector and by extension, the food production system, is already a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to the greenhouse effect and climate change.   However, the changing climate spells greater doom for agricultural production as its effects impact food systems and threaten food security.

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Advocacy

Global South: No climate justice without climate reparations

The world is facing an existential climate crisis that is threatening living species and ecosystems. This crisis is bringing about a lot of controversial issues, one of which is the question of what rich countries, who are mostly responsible for climate change, owe developing countries, who are suffering the worst

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Circular Economy Saving the Planet

Unravelling the factors inhibiting circular economy growth in Africa

The circular economy is a concept that integrates sourcing, production, and consumption within common systems in order to minimize waste. This is intended to extend the life cycle of products and drive innovation across the value chain to promote sustainability.   In Africa, although the circular economy concept appeals to

Africa Data Hub
Opportunities

Apply! Orodata Africa Data Hub Cohort 3 Community ‘Climate’ Journalism Fellowship

Application is now open for the third cohort of the Africa Data Hub (ADH) community journalism fellowship by Orodata Science.   Unlike other journalism calls, this call specifically seeks reporters focused on documenting and reporting on the resulting health challenges from the flood crisis in several parts of Nigeria (termed

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Saving the Planet News Trending

COP27: African countries to get £200 million support from the UK

Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, has announced at a COP27 event, a significant increase in the UK’s financial support to African countries on the frontline of climate change.   Speaking alongside African leaders at the COP27 event yesterday, the Foreign Secretary confirmed the UK will provide £200 million to the African

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Saving the Planet

Carbon credits: Lessons for Africa

As the world is thrown into a climate emergency, more public and private organizations are looking towards emission trading and carbon credits as a way of limiting emissions and reducing the global effects of climate change.   As a market-based approach to carbon emissions, it enables the offering of economic

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