Vivian Chime

Nigeria

Africa Energy Transition Reporter at Climate Home News

Covering Africa's energy transition @climatehome | Ex: Africa Journ Manager @climatetracking ; Head, climate desk @thecableng

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Articles

Bonn bulletin: Developing nations ask x3 adaptation finance by 2030

3 days ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo |Vivian Chime |Megan Rowling

At COP26 four years ago, governments agreed to “urge” developed countries to double finance for adapting to climate change up to around $40 billion a year by 2025. That goal ends this year, although we will not know until 2027 if it has been met. But at a press conference in Bonn this afternoon, the Least Developed Countries group chair Evan Njewa called for a successor goal – tripling adaptation finance by 2030 on 2022 levels. “Adaptation is a lifeline,” he explained.
Nigeria's deadly flood exposes the need for climate adaptation plan

3 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

When the rain began falling in late May, Usman Ndagi thought it was like every other downpour since the start of the rainy season in his hometown of Mokwa. But what seemed at first like harmless rain has brought days of devastation for himself and many families in the town in northern Nigeria. Ndagi woke up to screams on the morning of May 29 to see that the rain had flooded his entire neighbourhood.
Nigeria's deadly flood underscores urgent need for climate adaptation plan

3 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

When the rain began falling in late May, Usman Ndagi thought it was like every other downpour since the start of the rainy season in his hometown of Mokwa. But what seemed at first like harmless rain has brought days of devastation for himself and many families in the town in northern Nigeria. Ndagi woke up to screams on the morning of May 29 to see that the rain had flooded his entire neighbourhood.
Campaigners ask New African Development Bank president to stop funding fuels

4 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

As the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) took place this week in the Ivory Coast, civil society campaigners have been calling for the bank to stop funding fossil gas, but a senior official told Climate Home that the bank will continue to fund the fossil fuel in order to support intermittent sources of renewable electricity.
Nigerian president's solar system stir debate over renewables for the rich

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Nigeria’s presidential villa is being kitted out with a $6-million solar mini-grid – a pricey solution to erratic power supplies that small business manager Victor Onyim can only dream of as he grapples with near-daily power cuts. For more than two weeks until early May, Onyim’s drinking water company and other businesses in the southern city of Port Harcourt struggled to keep operating due to a total blackout blamed by the local power utility on vandalism.
Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitions

1 month ago | farmlandgrab.org | Vivian Chime

Climate Home News | 15 May 2025Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitionsby Vivian ChimeKenya’s latest national climate plan reflects its ambitions to raise millions of dollars in climate finance by tapping into the voluntary carbon market, even as two of its biggest offsetting projects face scrutiny over tensions with local Indigenous communities.
Indigenous land disputes in Kenya cloud its carbon market plans

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Kenya’s latest national climate plan reflects its ambitions to raise millions of dollars in climate finance by tapping into the voluntary carbon market, even as two of its biggest offsetting projects face scrutiny over tensions with local Indigenous communities. Verra, the main global certifier of carbon credits, this week suspended the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP) for the second time for a review following a ruling by a Kenyan court earlier this year.
Rising copper demand fuels concern over pollution and rights abuses

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

To help meet the needs of the energy transition, global demand for copper – a mineral critical for making electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels – is set to rise more than 40% by 2040, fuelling concern over the risks its extraction poses to the environment and human rights, new data shows.
Climate shocks and volatile currencies hike debt burdens

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

The world’s poorest countries are reeling from debt made worse by exchange rate fluctuations and worsening climate shocks, a new study has found, as officials considered ways to ease the burden at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank this week.
Deadly rains in Congo are now predicted to occur every two years

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

This month’s extreme rainfall that caused destructive floods in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), leading to at least 33 deaths, cutting off major roads and sweeping away homes, is set to occur every two years at current levels of global warming, scientists have found.