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Akamba Mfina: Climate Chaos in the Animal Kingdom
Discussions on the climate crisis often centre on the extreme weather events that humans experience, and on how global warming impacts countries’ economies. The world has hardly considered how the crisis is affecting the many other beings who suffer the brunt of...
After COP27, Africa Risks Being a Stranded Continent
COP 27 ended without any other significant shining light besides the Loss and Damage proposal. Hopes that the COP would call for a phased out of all fossil fuels were dashed. The campaign for climate debt has been campaigned for by civil societies for years. This...
COP: Damaged and Lost
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of Parties (COP) have studiously avoided naming fossil fuels as the Primary source of greenhouse gases driving climate change. The United Nations estimates that fossil fuels account...
HOMEF Trains Farmers in Rivers State on Agroecology
To enable small-scale farmers, produce food optimally with methods that are ecologically sound and economically viable, and in response to the overwhelming dominance of huge transnational conglomerates in agriculture, who are monopolizing food in Africa and beyond,...
Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change
Editor's note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length from the author’s conversation with Nnimmo Bassey on October 7, 2022. For access to the full interview’s audio and transcript, you can stream this episode on Breaking Green’s website or wherever you...
African Women at the Frontline of Climate Crisis
As the Conference of Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Egypt draws apace, there is an increasing effort to strengthen and unify women-led struggle against destructive large-scale climate projects, false solutions to...
Ocean, Rights and Policies
A Media Round table on Strengthening Ocean, Human Rights and Maritime Policies was recently held with critical media stakeholders in Lagos, Nigeria. Participants resolved to set the agenda for the protection of ocean and human rights, amplifying local voices, exposing...
The End of the Fossil Age
The wave of divestment by oil and gas companies manifesting in companies selling off their assets in the Niger Delta is raising deep concerns as these companies’ intent to move further into the deep appears to be attempts to avoid regulatory oversight and...
Eco-Instigator #37
Welcome to the 2022 September edition of our quarterly magazine, eco-Instigator. This is the 37th in the series and, as usual, promises to be informative, educative and instigative. The eco-Instigator is one fundamental vehicle for the attainment of the change HOMEF...
Combating Climate Change: False Solutions vs Agroecology
The significance of Agroecology in our food system and in climate change resilience/adaptation has been proven in recent research. Governments are increasingly recognizing the importance of supporting family farms, of transforming food systems to align with...
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