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Dec 6, 2024 | 
sabcnews.com | Mohamed Adow
by Mohamed Adow Africa is the world’s youngest continent, and our youthful population, combined with our renewable energy potential, means our best days are ahead of usThe results of the COP29 climate summit, which wrapped up in the early hours of Sunday morning in Baku, Azerbaijan, were not what Africa was hoping for.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Mohamed Adow
At the COP29 climate talks taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week, the Africa Group is calling for a new climate finance goal to deliver $1.3 trillion per year by 2030. This goal, known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), represents the Global North’s share of the finance required and would be a bold step towards tackling the climate crisis.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Mohamed Adow
As the world converges for COP29, the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the stakes for Africa have never been higher. These climate talks take place against the backdrop of rising temperatures and spiraling climate impacts, but they also offer a huge opportunity to kickstart major climate investment in Africa. It remains one of the great tragedies of the modern world that the continent with the largest clean energy potential continues to have the most people without access to electricity.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
context.news | Mohamed Adow
A view of damaged houses after the deadly floods following heavy rainfall, along the bank of Kalati River, in Bhumidanda village of Panauti municipality, in Kavre, Nepal October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarThe shameful history of rich nations trying to shirk their climate finance responsibilities must end at COP29 in BakuMohamed Adow is a climate justice advocate and director of energy and climate think tank Power Shift Africa.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Mohamed Adow
African flea markets in towns and cities, from Lome in Togo to Pemba in Mozambique, are a daily hive of activity as vendors sell their wares, ranging from nail cutters and plastic brooms to mobile phones, solar panels and much more as African life gradually modernises to keep up with what it means to live in the 21st century.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Mohamed Adow
Over the past two months, extreme weather has taken a terrible toll on large parts of Africa, the Gulf and many Asian countries. We have seen terrible flash floods here in Kenya and Tanzania, with at least 291 people reported killed and more than 400,000 affected by floods. While the reality of the climate crisis has been striking us hard, we haven’t seen similar urgency from political leaders at the Bonn international climate talks, which concluded mid-last month in Germany.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
climatechangenews.com | Mohamed Adow
Mohamed Adow is the founder and director of Power Shift Africa There’s no getting around it. The recently concluded climate talks in Bonn have left the goal of limiting global heating to under 1.5C in peril. The reason: rich countries are backtracking on their financial pledges. The crucial deadline for next year’s new national climate plans, known as NDCs – which are the bedrock for the collective global effort to tackle climate change – are now in danger.
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May 21, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Mohamed Adow
Kenya is aware of the severe threat posed by the climate crisis. However, the floods which have caused such death and devastation must be a wake-up call to the world on the need for proper financial support to the most vulnerable against such climate impacts. These floods are exactly what scientists and environmentalists have been warning will come if emissions continue to rise. Some countries are showing the way in reducing fossil fuel use—not least Kenya itself.
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May 16, 2024 | 
context.news | Mohamed Adow
A farmer collects sorghum plant after heavy rain in Kournari village, on the outskirts of Ndjamena, Chad October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Mahamat RamadanOffsets allow companies and countries to make ‘carbon neutral’ claims without taking real steps to decarboniseMohamed Adow is a climate justice advocate and director of energy and climate think-tank Power Shift Africa.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
nation.africa | Mohamed Adow
Although it might be hard to see just yet, the world shifted last week, thanks to the outcome of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For the first time in history, every country in the world formally recognised that fossil fuels were the cause of the climate crisis and committed to transition away from them – with action to be taken this decade.
