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Monthly Archives: May, 2017

Ovais Sarmad replaces Richard Kinley as deputy UNFCCC executive secretary

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appointed Ovais Sarmad of India as Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Conservationist confronts Dangote over alleged ‘plantation in national park’

Nigerian conservationist, Odey Oyama, recently discovered freshly cut logs on the edge of a pineapple plantation, and nearby sits a saw mill. The Dangote Group,...

When legal practioners evaluated GMOs, biosafety and the law

The need for public consultation and participation in the approval processes of applications that directly affect the people’s health and wellbeing cannot be overstressed....

GM food and Nigerian promoters

Mariann Bassey-Orovwuje, lawyer and coordinator of the Food Sovereignty Programme of Friends the Earth Nigeria and Africa, as well as Chair of AFSA, in a...

Pacific Island women’s high mercury levels attributed to predatory fish species consumption

A new study, supported by the Minamata Convention’s Interim Secretariat hosted by UN Environment (UNEP) reveals that women of childbearing age living in four...

Norway ratifies Minamata Convention

The Government of Norway on Friday, May 12, 2017 deposited its instrument of ratification, thereby becoming the 44th future Party to the Minamata Convention on...

Clinical Neymar hat-trick sinks Las Palmas

In Spain the battle for the Spanish La Liga title continued at the weekend as Barcelona got a comfortable victory on the road to...

Sustainable practices help Ghana communities reverse land degradation

Farmers and communities in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana are being assisted to adopt sustainable land management practices to help reverse land degradation...

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Taraba to plant 2m tree crops to mitigate climate change, promote economic empowerment

Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State on Saturday, April 20, 2024, flagged-off a project involving the planting of two...
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BirdLife takes up fresh campaign to safeguard West African vultures

BirdLife Africa has said that the launch of the West African Vulture Conservation Action Plan (WAVCAP), which held on...

Tpl. Catherine Kehinde George: A trailblazer in town planning education

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you die and rotten, either write things worth reading or...

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Taraba to plant 2m tree crops to mitigate climate change, promote economic empowerment

Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State on Saturday, April...

BirdLife takes up fresh campaign to safeguard West African vultures

BirdLife Africa has said that the launch of the...
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