Monthly Archives: March, 2015

Agony, ill-health as residents lack drinking water in Niger Delta

The Niger Delta region in Nigeria has a vast area of its land mass covered by water but the inhabitants barely have access to...

Lekan Fadina: Road to Paris 2015 (12)

It clear to us that COP 21 is not a tea party and it is expected that all parties will put on the table national...

Forests described as essential in tackling climate change

The sustainable management and conservation of forests must be considered in the design and implementation of the new sustainable development goals and the new...

Paris 2015: Governments get negotiating text for climate agreement

The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has communicated the negotiating text for a new climate change agreement to...

Drug regimen may shorten, improve tuberculosis treatment

A new tuberculosis (TB) drug regimen designed to improve options for TB therapy eliminated more bacteria from sputum than standard therapy and did so...

How Americans perceive global warming’s health consequences

The George Mason University's Centre for Climate Change Communication has released a new report, Global Warming's Six Americas, October 2014: Perceptions of the Health...

EU accused of patronising goods from illegally deforested land

Almost a quarter of the world trade in agricultural goods produced on land illegally cleared of forest is destined for the EU; the Netherlands, Italy,...

Lekan Fadina: Road to Paris 2015 (11)

The COP21/CMP11 are being seen as the avenue for providing solutions to the Climate Agreement. France as the host country will be presiding at...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming...
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African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts and representatives of civil society, adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration...

How agriculture restored peace between farmers, pastoralists in Plateau

In nearly every community I have worked in across Plateau State, I have heard some version of the same...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into...

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts...