Monthly Archives: June, 2015

Sustainable Devpt

Risks, deaths as workers generate wealth

Workers labour to make a living. Sadly, for many the wages of work has been death. The occupational hazards that workers face is a...

admin - June 30, 2015

Climate Change

Is 2 degrees warming too dangerous?

In the wake of the G7’s announcement to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degree Fahrenheit), UN climate negotiators from the...

admin - June 30, 2015

Climate Change

Our stand on COP 21, by Erimma Orie

It is interesting how time flies and, very soon, it shall be time for COP 21 in Paris, France; six months since COP 20...

admin - June 30, 2015

Water & Sanitation

PAVE, UC-Berkeley in water rights research initiative

The Pan African Vision for the Environment (PAVE) is collaborating with the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) in...

admin - June 26, 2015

Conservation

IUCN: Dams, climate change threatening natural heritage

Climate change and large dam projects are putting natural World Heritage sites at risk, says the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the official...

admin - June 26, 2015

Renewable Energy

Rethinking nation’s energy strategy towards off-grid

Energy is the Golden Thread that connects economic growth, social equity and environmental health. - Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General ...Energy is a prerequisite...

admin - June 26, 2015

Conservation

Plans initiated to curb Pacific Bluefin Tuna overfishing

Members of the fisheries commission for the eastern Pacific assembling in Guayaquil, Ecuador need to prioritise initiating a rigorous recovery plan to address the...

admin - June 26, 2015

Cover

History as Dutch citizens win climate case against State

Together with 886 citizens, Dutch non-governmental organisation (NGO), Urgenda, on Wednesday June 24, 2015 won a climate liability case against the Dutch state. The plaintiffs argued that...

admin - June 26, 2015

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