Yearly Archives: 2016

Climate Change

Half of world’s top 500 investors ignoring climate risks

Report on institutions worth $38 trillion finds growth in low carbon investment and support for climate resolutions but little progress on stranded asset risk Climate...

admin - May 2, 2016

Climate Change

Businesses devise ways to adapt strategies to climate goal

A week after more than 170 countries signed the Paris Agreement and investors voted on a shareholder climate risk resolution at the AGM of...

admin - May 1, 2016

Marine

Climate change depleting oxygen in oceans, says study

A reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans due to climate change is already discernible in some parts of the world...

admin - May 1, 2016

Climate Change

Gambia, Seychelles sign Paris Agreement, signatories now 177

Two more countries have signed the Paris Climate Change Agreement, bringing the total number of signatories to 177 Parties (176 countries and the European...

admin - May 1, 2016

Conservation

Kenya burns recovered elephant ivory, rhino horns, seeks to stop poaching

Plumes of smoke filled the air of a muddy Nairobi National Park last Saturday as Kenya’s President Kenyatta presided over the burning of 105...

admin - May 1, 2016

Cover

Review Great Green Wall operations to correct lapses – Dahiru

Nigeria loses over 21,000sq km of its arable land annually to desertification which encroaches into the northern region of the country from the Sahara Desert. The...

admin - May 1, 2016

Human Settlement