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Yearly Archives: 2018

UN to COP24: Prepare Africa for ravages of climate change

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called on the international community to evolve measures to prepare the African continent for the ravages of...

Renewable energy critical to addressing nation’s electricity deficit, says don

A Professor in the University of Agriculture, Markurdi, Benue State, Prof. Isaac Itodo, has urged the Federal Government to come up with a better...

Group, research institute to collaborate on afforestation

A not-for-profit outfit, The Rural Environmental Empowerment (TREE) Initiative, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN)...

COP24 overshoots closing day amid hopes for a deal

Negotiators were preparing to work well past the official close of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice in the evening of Friday, December...

Chile to host UN climate talks in 2019

Chile has been selected to host the next United Nations’ climate conference in 2019, it was announced at the current meeting in the Polish...

COP24: We organised a top-class event, says Polish leader

“Once again, we passed the exam, we organised an absolutely top-class world party at the highest level,” President Andrzej Duda of Poland said on...

UK bids to host COP26 in 2020

“We have to make sure we can deliver a good COP, as 2020 will be a really vital COP, and we absolutely want to...

Eight shark species to benefit from greater protection

After five days of intensive discussions, the 3rd session of the Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of...

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Extreme flooding and intensifying rainfall variability in Nigeria

Synopsis Climate change and natural climate variability are the major causes of weather extremes such as heavy rainfall. There have...
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International Waste Pickers’ Day: Pickers seek recognition for sustainable development

Waste pickers in Lagos have called for formal recognition and inclusion in Nigeria’s circular economy drive. Mr. Friday Oku, President...

Onuigbo hails Tinubu’s reforms, backs Regional Development Commissions as path to national growth

The member representing the South East on the Governing Board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Sam Ifeanyi...

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Extreme flooding and intensifying rainfall variability in Nigeria

Synopsis Climate change and natural climate variability are the major...

International Waste Pickers’ Day: Pickers seek recognition for sustainable development

Waste pickers in Lagos have called for formal recognition...
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