At its core, climate finance is about how we pay for climate action – both reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts. But this isn’t just about distant financial transactions. Climate finance affects our daily lives in countless ways, say the authors.

Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education – and their future – at the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

Climate change is a silent killer, and the WHO has warned that urgent action is “a matter of life and death”.

COP29 brings the world together amid clashing interests, hopes and concerns

Government’s renewable energy programme has brought billions in investment, decreased load shedding, and empowered black South Africans.

Climate change is affecting the way in which we’re producing food and how polluted the water we drink and the air we breathe are, but only about one in three governments pointed out the impact of climate change on their citizens’ health.

US officials touted newly announced plans Wednesday to triple nuclear energy by 2050 as a bipartisan project that could survive Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

COP29 negotiators welcomed a pledge by major development banks to lift funding to poor and middle-income countries struggling with global warming as an early boost to the two-week summit.

As the COP annual gathering rolls around again, only a quarter of the funding pledged for SA’s just energy transition has found its way into the country

An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu.

The creation of a UN-backed global carbon market has taken a step closer to reality with governments approving new standards for the use of credits to meet climate targets.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP29 summit on Tuesday to “pay up” to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global tempera

President Aliyev accuses West of hypocrisy for criticising country’s fossil-fuel dependence while buying its oil & gas.

This year’s UN climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change.

Minister of the DFFE Dion George is off to Azerbaijan with one of the onerous responsibilities of our time.

Washington’s top climate envoy sought to reassure countries at the CO29 talks Monday that Donald Trump’s re-election would not end US efforts to tackle global warming.

In his stone house perched on a hill in northern Ethiopia, Amanuel Hiluf puts on his protective suit, carefully adjusting the hood and gloves.

Waste from fruit and vegetable markets around Durban is contributing to significant buildup in landfills. However, a partnership with a local municipality is turning the waste into something much “greener”.

South Africa is concerned by the impact Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States may have on talks to tackle climate change, its environment minister said on Friday.

The head of France’s state development bank expects other development finance institutions to add to a €400 million climate loan for South Africa that partners will likely sign within days.

After almost 100 years of being absent from Cape Town’s wetlands, an indigenous lily has been replanted this week in honour of an international environmental programme.