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Monthly Archives: November, 2015

Why Lagos should not privatise water, by ERA/FoEN

Deputy Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Akinbode Oluwafemi, at a media briefing in Lagos, lists reasons why the Lagos State...

2016: Amosun promises affordable housing, infrastructure development

Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has promised the residents of the state of affordable housing and a spate of infrastructure development schemes under...

Ogoni youths graduate from Shell-sponsored training for farmers

A total of 60 youths from Ogoniland on Tuesday graduated from a training programme on agricultural entrepreneurial programme organised by The Shell Petroleum Development...

Oxfam: Delays in cutting emissions will cost developing nations dearly

Developing countries’ economies face being crushed under the double burden of climate change adaptation costs of almost $800 billion and more than twice that...

World takes to the streets ahead of Paris climate summit

The weekend before the opening of the climate summit in Paris, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in over 2,000...

Report exposes biotech big bet to prop up fossil fuels

At the upcoming Climate summit in Paris, some governments and much of civil society will be pushing for an urgent transition away from the...

UN to decorate Wapichan community for defending land, forests

The Wapichan people in Guyana, South America, have received the prestigious Equator Prize from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in recognition of their prolonged efforts...

Campaigners to hold Abuja Climate March

World leaders from more than 190 nations are gathering at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP21) in Paris, France from November 30 - December...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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