At the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have issued a hard-hitting statement calling out developed nations to commit to phasing out fossil fuel and protecting ecosystems among other demands. The delegation from the Global South were outraged by the absence of provisions on energy access in the work programme on just transitions draft decision released at the ongoing climate talks.
Uganda’s health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has called on developed countries to consider debt relief for Global South countries like Uganda which are hardly hit by the negative effects of climate change yet they contribute less to the fueling of the climate crisis.
Uganda has sent a little over 600 delegates to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). With about 100,000 delegates registered as delegates, this year’s climate summit is the most attended in the history of summits on the issue of climate change, spanning three decades.
Uganda’s Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has delivered a statement on Uganda’s climate finance needs and measures to conserve the environment at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai.
Ugandan representatives and an investor are in advanced stages of formalizing a deal aimed at fast-tracking transition from use of firewood and charcoal to cleaner cooking gas, the ministry of energy and mineral development has revealed at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai.
More pledges for climate finance, including under the newly operationalized Loss and Damage Fund, as well as calls for taxes on fossils were some of issues that emerged on Day Two of COP28 in Dubai.
Climate Change Activists have welcomed the agreement on the loss and damage fund at the start of a two-week long COP28 UN summit in Dubai, but called on rich nations to do more to assist developing nations and communities to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis across the world.
Ugandan main opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobi Wine has eaten his words on homosexuality in an interview in the UK on his first visit to the former Ugandan colonial master in about a decade.
Land titles for Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and properties for the country’s missions abroad are missing, Parliament has learnt.