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

Campaigners ask New African Development Bank president to stop funding fuels

1 week 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

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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 month 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 months 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

2 months 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.