Yearly Archives: 2016

Health

Abuja anti-tobacco billboard targets lawmakers

As Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy executive director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) unveiled an anti-tobacco billboard strategically located by the National Assembly...
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Human Settlement

Africa’s road to Quito

Mariam Lady Yunusa, Abuja-based urban planner and erstwhile Director of Partnerships and Manager, African Urban Agenda at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)...
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What US election outcome will mean for climate, energy

You haven’t heard it much in the media, but this election is likely to have large consequences for how the United States, and perhaps the...
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Cautious celebration, as Paris Agreement enters into force

As the Paris Agreement enters into force on Friday (November 4, 2016), Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and Salaheddine Mezouar, President of COP22 and...
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Why inclusive natural resource governance is the needed change

Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in an address at the opening of the group’s National...
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Trillions needed to actualise Paris vision – CIF

Decision-makers gathering in Marrakech, Morocco for the UN’s Climate summit (COP22) next week have been asked to act with the urgency commensurate with recent...
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COP22 to host historic FSV, MA sessions

History will be made at the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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Climate Change

Managing climate change via knowledge, learning

Many Africans are aware that some changes occur in the environment year in and year out but lack knowledge of the reasons for such...
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Climate Change

A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Climate Change

Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...
Human Welfare

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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