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Monthly Archives: September, 2015

India crackdown: Defiant Greenpeace will continue campaign

Greenpeace India said last Friday that it would continue campaigning for clean air and against coal mining in protected forests in the country even though the government had...

Worry over quality of surface water in Uganda

Every time Chrispus Twikirize, a student and resident of Kainamo in Ibaare, Igara Bushenyi, goes to the well to fetch water for domestic use,...

Apprehension, as governments give ‘green light’ for Paris draft agreement

The latest round of UN climate change negotiations ended on Friday in Bonn, Germany, on track to produce the first comprehensive draft of the...

Quantum Global joins Forest Stewardship Council International

The recently closed $250 million timber fund is the largest dedicated to timber investments in sub‐Saharan Africa, which remains an under-invested market Quantum Global has...

Rachel Kyte succeeds Kandeh Yumkella as head of SE4All

Rachel Kyte has been selected as Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, Charles O. Holliday, Jr., Chair of the...

Fatalities as fire guts plaza in Lagos Balogun Market

Several people were feared dead and others injured when a six-storey plaza in the heart of the popular Balogun Market in Lagos State was...

Arctic peoples overlooked as forum thaws climate discussions

Are climate discussions ignoring the self-determination of Arctic peoples? On August 30-31, President Barak Obama traveled to Alaska to address the U.S. State Department's conference...

Shell, Total, other fossil fuel majors call for global climate deal

Disclosures from thousands of the world's largest listed companies reveal that many of the most significant producers of fossil fuels support an international deal...

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Groups want Coca Cola, others held accountable for plastic pollution

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Edo State Government to compel Coca Cola Company,...
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Nigeria and challenges of Housing and Urban Development Policy implementation

The significant difference between successful and unsuccessful policy implementation is that the former seeks problems to solve, whereas the...

WaterAid, Kimberly Clark’s facility to improve sanitation, hygiene in Ikorodu North

WaterAid Nigeria in partnership with Kimberly Clark Corporation has commissioned the rehabilitation of modern and conducive toilet facility domiciled...

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Groups want Coca Cola, others held accountable for plastic pollution

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has...

Nigeria and challenges of Housing and Urban Development Policy implementation

The significant difference between successful and unsuccessful policy implementation...