Steven NSAMAZA is Director of the Rwanda News Agency. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and has received intensive training as a journalist. He began his journalistic career in 2003 as a freelance journalist, and later joined the Rwanda News Agency as a senior reporter before becoming the editor of the English service and later the director of the agency. He has a special interest in environmental reporting. In 2008 he was among the founding members of Rwanda Association of Science Journalists. He has travelled extensively and met and interacted with researchers, policy makers and a wide range of other climate change stakeholders around the world.
Durban: Experts have painted a grim future for food supply on the African continent a few years from now unless global warming is halted – a position that came as prospects for a deal at the UN climate change conference became dimmer. Adaptation to climate change is “not an option but a necessity”, said scientists
Durban: With two days to the finish line of the troubled talks on climate change the African Group of negotiators have tabled out five key demands to keep the existing frameworks alive, RNA reports. African negotiators are ambitious in their demands seeking Bali action plan, a second commitment of Kyoto Protocol, significant financing, appliance of
Durban: African negotiators at the ongoing climate change talks in Durban are demanding that the so-called historically big polluters clear their mess before shifting blame to developing countries, RNA reports. Mr. Seyni Nafo, African Group spokesman, said the known polluters have signed up to legally-binding agreements which they must fulfil but are instead pressurising developing
Durban, South Africa: Even as some delegates at the ongoing climate change conference threaten to walk out, Rwandan delegates at the marathon talks say a deal could in sight on the future of Kyoto Protocol before it expires next year. “My expectations are that this time, Parties are coming to an agreement about the future
Durban: South African President Jacob Zuma said Monday that the 12,000 delegates expected at the UN climate conference which opened here need to work as a team if any agreement is to be reached – as the UN scrambles for a new deal. “Delegates should look beyond national interests in regard to the common good
