Vivian Chime

Nigeria

Africa Energy Transition Reporter at Climate Home News

Head, climate change desk @thecableng | @risj_oxford OCJN member | Ex: Africa Journalism Manager @climatetracking

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Articles

Deadly rains in Congo are now predicted to occur every two years

1 week 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.
In Ethiopia, EV ambitions are hitting bumps in rural areas

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime |Solomon Yimer

As Ethiopia’s rising fuel prices eat into his daily earnings, motorcycle taxi rider Teshale Natnael says an electric scooter would be the “perfect solution”. But there’s a hitch. “We don’t have electricity in our village,” Teshale, 25, said as he sipped from a steaming cup during his coffee break in Dubancho village near Yirba, a small town in the Sidama region about 350 km (220 miles) south of Addis Ababa.
Trump follows the minerals trail for weapons, not clean energy

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

While US President Donald Trump has ripped up much of his predecessor’s climate and foreign policy, he has pushed forward with Joe Biden’s pursuit of metals and minerals abroad while shifting the strategic focus from clean energy to military use, analysts say. Biden spent some of his final days as US leader in Angola, talking up a railway that will bring copper and cobalt from Central Africa to the continent’s west coast wherethe materialscan be shipped to the US.
African banks back oil export pipeline despite climate commitments

3 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime |Matteo Civillini

Speaking at COP29 in Azerbaijan about the impact of climate change on Africa, the executives of Afreximbank promised to double-down on their commitment to a just energy transition on the continent. But, four months later, the multilateral lender has confirmed its support for a controversial pipeline that would carry crude oil from Uganda to the Tanzanian coast for export overseas.
Age of "climate whiplash" puts residents of Africa's cities in danger

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Climate change is intensifying rainfall in Southern Africa, where rapid urbanisation and poor drainage made recent flooding in Botswana and South Africa deadly, a group of scientists said, while a separate study showed some of the continent’s biggest cities are being squeezed by wet and dry extremes.
Women hardest hit by South Sudan’s climate-fueled heatwave

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Researchers have found that women and girls in the conflict-torn nation of South Sudan are facing greater health risks and worsened inequality due to the negative impacts of climate change as the country battles record-breaking heat. The findings published ahead of International Women’s Day marked on March 8, by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of scientists, said February’s heatwave was made about 10 times more likely – and 2 degrees Celsius hotter – by human-caused climate change.
US withdraws from energy transition deals for developing nations

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

The US has quit the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) initiative it helped launch to support several developing countries in their shift away from coal to clean energy, ending its contribution to the $45 billion in climate finance pledged to back their efforts. The withdrawal is the latest in a rapid-fire series of US funding cuts for work in developing countries after President Donald Trump, a climate change sceptic, came to power in late January.
Nigeria bids to host COP32 climate summit in Lagos

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Nigeria wants to host the COP32 United Nations climate summit in Lagos in 2027, its government announced today as the chief of the UN’s climate arm, Simon Stiell, visited the West African mega-city. At a symposium with Stiell in attendance, Nkiruka Maduekwe, the head of the country’s climate change council, said on Thursday that Africa’s most populated city “has what it takes to host COP32”.
Zimbabwe plans to expand coal use to address blackouts

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

Zimbabwe is planning to ramp up its use of coal and gas to meet its energy needs after the worst drought in decades dried out the water supply to the hydropower plant, which powers the country. As a result, the Southern African nation is failing to meet its power demand, the government wrote in a new climate plan to cut emissions by 2035 submitted to the UN earlier this month.
South Africa's G20 push for local mineral processing faces barriers

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime

As chair of the Group of 20 (G20) nations this year, South Africa wants to secure agreement for more local processing of the metals and minerals critical to the clean energy transition, with many mined in large quantities in the Global South – but it will first need to win support from dominant player China.