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Yearly Archives: 2016

CBD hails launch of Healthy Environment, Healthy People

Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, the Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity, has welcomed a new UNEP report on environment and health...

Ministers draft resolutions to drive Sustainability Agenda, Paris Agreement

The world’s environment ministers, gathered at the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, passed far reaching...

State of emergency in Peru as illegal gold mining causes mercury contamination

Peru’s government has declared a two-month state of emergency across 11 Amazon jungle districts due to mercury contamination caused by widespread illegal gold mining activities. The South American country,...

10 Nigerians to grace Lusaka Sustainaware summit

Ten Nigerians are participating in the 2016 Sustainaware, a regional partnership conference taking place between 30th and 31st May, 2016 in Lusaka, the capital...

Abiodun to Ambode: Why Mile 12 Market relocation is spot on

Parkview Estate, Ikoyi-based urban planner and planning advocate, Yacoob Abiodun, writes an open letter to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, urging him to...

High-drama as Paris follow-up summit ends

United Nations climate change negotiations on Thursday in Bonn, Germany concluded their first session since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December last...

Reactions trail closing Bonn climate negotiations

Expert observers from the Climate Action Network (CAN) have responded to two weeks of UN climate negotiations as they draw to a close on Thursday in...

GMOs: Nigeria not dumping ground for risky technologies

We are at crossroads in the struggle for sustainable agriculture, safe foods, biosafety and biosecurity. Navigating this intersection and assuring Nigerians that their concerns...

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Belize, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Syphilis

Belize, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the latest countries in the Americas to receive certification from...
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World Migratory Bird Day highlights importance of insects as birds’ source of food

World Migratory Bird Day 2024 shines a spotlight on the relationship between migratory birds and insects amidst alarming declines...

Labour, CSOs march on Lagos Assembly over sacked water corporation staff

In fulfilment of their promise to press home their demand for the reinstatement of the over 400 staff of...

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