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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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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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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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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Katsina children raise alarm over climate-linked school hazards

Children from the Child Rights Advocacy Club in Mashi Local Government Area of Katsina State have raised serious concerns...
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ACReSAL surpasses midpoint targets, eyes expansion as Lagos review opens

At the opening of a three-day strategic review in Lagos, Nigeria’s flagship climate resilience initiative, the Agro-Climatic Resilience in...
Sustainable Devpt

Inger Andersen: Gearing up for a year of multilateral action

Speech delivered by Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), at the 173rd meeting of the Committee...

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Climate Change

Katsina children raise alarm over climate-linked school hazards

Children from the Child Rights Advocacy Club in Mashi...
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ACReSAL surpasses midpoint targets, eyes expansion as Lagos review opens

At the opening of a three-day strategic review in...