Monthly Archives: June, 2017

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Superhighway route should avoid Ekuri, National Park, government insists

It appears the Cross Rivers State Government (CRSG) has a high mountain to climb in its bid to build its much-vaunted but controversial six-lane,...

admin - June 30, 2017

Conservation

Group moves to save endangered cheetahs, dogs, dolphins

The newly launched Endangered Species Rescue (ESR) has said that its priority area of focus is to save cheetahs, the African painted dogs, pink...

admin - June 30, 2017

Agric & Biotech

Niger Delta: Right to food and to be free from hunger

Speaking at the Roundtable on Food Security in the Niger Delta on Thursday, July 29, 2017 in Abuja as part of the EU Climate...

admin - June 30, 2017

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Africa Carbon Forum: Continent urged to work closer together on climate action, SDGs

African countries must work closer together when implementing national climate action plans under the Paris Climate Change Agreement and mobilising climate finance, whilst better...

admin - June 30, 2017

Conservation

Fresh IUCN worry over vaquita exploitation, logging, poaching

Illegal fishing, logging and poaching are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites monitored by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...

admin - June 30, 2017

Water & Sanitation

UNDP, GCF address Maldives water challenges

Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, has said that the Maldives will benefit from the current transfer of Green Climate Funds (GCF)...

admin - June 30, 2017

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Why climate policy matters for G20 finance ministers’ agenda

In order to stay below the 2 °C guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers’...

admin - June 30, 2017

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Superhighway: Government gives conditional EIA approval

The Federal Ministry of Environment on Thursday, June 29, 2017 gave conditional approval to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report prepared by the Cross...

Michael Simire - June 29, 2017

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