A Disaster and the Road to Resilience The Storm Arrives At the beginning of June 2025, South Africa was hit by one of the most devastating climate related disaster in recent history. An intense cold front caused by torrential rains caused disastrous flooding in the Eastern Cape Province. What started as a serious weather condition, […]
Making the Tragedy of August 2025: A Story of lost Bridges, drowned Harvests, and lost Classrooms. It started with a scream of mountains, and it came to a pause in the whimpering in the plains. It began with a scream in the mountains and finished with a whimpering in the plains. In August, as the […]
A series of catastrophic floods and landslides occurred at the end of November 2025 in Sumatra Island, which precipitated a significant human crisis across the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra. The disaster’s footprint is widespread across numerous administrative districts, devastating 25 regencies and municipalities: approximately 12 regencies/municipalities in Aceh Province, 8 regencies/municipalities […]
The Gambia is a low-lying country with over 48% of the total land area below 20 m above mean sea level and nearly one-third of the country, at or below 10 m above mean sea level (Duguma et al., 2020). It is one of the most vulnerable countries to the negative effects of climate change […]
Addressing Climate-Induced Drought in Central Afghanistan Introduction Mountain communities in Central Afghanistan experience a water crisis that is new. According to meteorological data, precipitation in provinces such as Bamyan and Daikundi has fallen dramatically. The overall result has been catastrophic. The drought of 2018 affected 26,200 families in Bamyan and Daikundi provinces. The drought has […]
Can Nigeria’s Carbon-Credit Gamble Deliver Wins at Home and Abroad? When a fisherman in Nigeria is questioned about climate change, he will say that climate diplomacy is a far-off thing until the tide in his compound rises higher with each passing year. Markets, mitigation are not what he talks of; it is roofs, nets and […]
Climate change has become a pressing global issue, and Indonesia, as one of the world’s largest tropical forest countries, has a major responsibility in mitigating its impacts. One of the main initiatives taken by Indonesia is the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program, which aims to provide incentives to developing countries to […]
At this point in its history, Afghanistan will make significant economic progress that will require an increasingly stable environment in which renewable energy can play a part in that transformation. The fortune of renewable energy resources in the country like solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal is going to contribute a lot toward energy security […]
During President Joko Widodo’s leadership era, the government is committed to allocating 12.7 million state forest areas to communities through the Social Forestry (SF) program. Social Forestry is made a national priority program in the context of national economic equality by providing land access, opportunities, and Community Resources (HR) capacity. In this case, SF provides […]
The escalating climate crisis demands a deep and rapid climate action, a global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) consistently emphasizes that immediate action is required to limit global temperature rise to below 1.5°C, thereby reducing the risk of severe environmental, economic, and social impacts. However, this […]
Abdul-Razak Issifu Yidana 
Amadu Barrie 
Primrose Mutema 