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T oday’s blog post is about climate finance which is a very important aspect of the fight against climate change. Climate finance has been given due attention in both the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. But what is climate finance? Climate finance basically refers to the flow of finance from public, private, national and international entities to go towards the efforts to combat climate change. T his money goes towards efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, to fund transition to a low carbon pathway, aid in climate resilient development, aid in adaptation to the effects of climate change, and in recouping from loss and damage, that is, regrouping. While still growing and developing, climate finance is a very wide and diverse field but basically encompasses all money that is used in climate action. C limate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, the majority of which are from developed countries. But the most vulnerable and affected by climate chan...

Hello there people.👋 Howya doing? Christmas cheer in the air yet? Well before we end the year we are going to have the last post this year, looking at the things that happened this year in the climate change world. So yea, gather round the fire with a warm cuppa☕ and here we go: We started the year with the third warmest January in modern record keeping history, whereby gold was taken by January 2016, and silver by January 2007, this being according to NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. I might also point out that the world in general was still coming to terms with the outcome of the American Presidential election of 2016 and what that meant for climate action and especially America’s leading role in it – formerly that is.  February 2017 was the second warmest in the 137 years of record keeping history after February 2016. March followed suit, taking silver after March 2016. There was also some good news in March in that Bloomberg Markets reported that renewables...

H ello there ladies and gentlemen, how are you ?   I hope life has been pleasant and kind to you. I trust and verily hope that you have been keeping well and have learnt a thing or two about life in these few months we have been on break.   I hope that for you aspiring way makers, change makers have learnt that it’s not all partying and wasting your life away. Have you observed that life is a canvas for you to paint your life story on? It is a teacher, a professor if you will, that teaches and instructs at her own pace and dishes, doles out her snippets as she sees fit. T herefore, we learn at our pace and each his lesson. Imbibe the wisdom R ight! Ladies and gentlemen you are now young adults. We all do remember how as children we all craved to have the freedom to make our own choices and live by them. As you well understand by now, freedom has to be hard fought; it never is given easily – even the freedom to decide how your life should be. T hat ...

Hello ladies and gentlemen, here is a reminder of why we do this and why it's everyone's fight. A lesson on history and current affairs: O f late, there have been a lot of misinformation and ambiguity over climate change. Climate change has become some sort of buzzword for the large majority but for the minority who deny reality, they try to water and minimize its strength, the way it hits you in the face with its sheer unrepentant tenacity. It’s persistent, this thing called climate change. It is not going away tomorrow. Not even for the holidays. It’s here to see if it can assert itself, build a house, demarcate some land and have it certified as property belonging to global warming, as the law agrees. S o what do we do, we the life that has colonized the Earth and declared it our habitation? Where do we go? Are we willing to cede some of ours to this brash neighbor who takes all without asking? Obviously it won’t ask nicely and we can’t reply with force because ...