Yearly Archives: 2016

Climate Change

GCF approves $315m in funding at final 2016 meeting

The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting to be held in the Pacific, and the final for 2016 closed in Apia, Samoa, on...
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Climate Change

WBCSD, WMB welcome approvals on climate-related financial disclosures

The pair of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the We Mean Business Coalition (WMB) has welcomed the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure’s (TCFD)...
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Business

Petroleum technologists honour Shell boss

The Petroleum Technology Association (PETAN), an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors, honoured the Shell Petroleum Development...
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Cover

Global community in $75bn commitment to end poverty

A coalition of more than 60 donor and borrower governments agreed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, December 15, 2016 to ratchet up the fight...
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Cover

Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s Environment Minister, is UN Deputy Secretary-General

Incoming United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Thursday announced Ms Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General. Guterres made the announcement through the spokesman of the...
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Radio Reports

Lagosians regret absence of the unique Christmas weather in the state

Christmas weather December, aside being the end of the year based on the Gregorian calendar, is unique in many ways. One of the unique things...
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Cover

CODE’s ‘Follow The Money’ celebrated

Nominet Trust, the UK’s leading tech for good funder, has named Connected Development’s (CODE) Follow The Money initiative in the 2016 NT100 – a...
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Conservation

CBD, WWF champion biodiversity awareness

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity (SCBD) and WWF International have signed an MoU to collaborate in implementing CBD’s Global Communications Strategy together...
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Water & Sanitation

Improved water use can feed 10bn, create 245m jobs – World Bank

The World Bank Group has called for a global rebalancing of water use in agriculture, a move critical to...
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Renewable Energy

Power: Govt addressing persistent gas supply challenges – Minister

The Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, says the Federal Government has taken decisive steps to address persistent gas...
Conservation

World Wildlife Day 2026 celebration in New York highlights cross-sector collaboration to combat illegal wildlife trade

In the heart of Midtown Manhattan, United for Wildlife and the CITES Secretariat hosted leaders from the finance, technology,...

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Water & Sanitation

Improved water use can feed 10bn, create 245m jobs – World Bank

The World Bank Group has called for a global...
Renewable Energy

Power: Govt addressing persistent gas supply challenges – Minister

The Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, says the...