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Monthly Archives: February, 2019

Climate change takes centre stage at Hague conference

World leaders have converged on The Hague, Netherlands, to call on countries to take urgent actions toward reducing the impact of climate change to water, livelihoods,...

Women technicians emerge as scheme seeks to improve livelihood in insurgency-hit state

To address inherent socio-economic and energy-related gaps, the International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED), in partnership with Mercy Corps and funding from...

How Katowice Climate Package will operationalise Paris Agreement, by UNFCCC

When delegates adopted the 2015 Paris Agreement to widespread cheers and excitement, it was clear that further details needed to be negotiated on how the agreement would be...

Key elements of Katowice Climate Package

The UNFCCC on Monday, February 18, 2019 published an overview of the Katowice Climate Package, adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference COP24 in...

Why permit for commercial release of Bt Cowpea in Nigeria should be revoked

Joyce Ebebeinwe of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in this opinion article on the planned commercial release of Bt Cowpea in Nigeria, attempts to...

Health workers who steal drugs culpable for deaths, says Ugandan minister

Minister of health, Dr. Jane Aceng, has said some of the deaths that happen in Uganda are as a result of health workers who steal drugs...

IUCN’s Andersen to replace Solheim at UNEP

The UN secretary-general has picked the Danish economist and environmentalist, Inger Andersen, as its new environment chief, according to a letter seen by Agence France-Presse, turning the...

Group flays impending EU, Vietnam timber trade deal

A looming trade agreement on tropical timber involving the European Union and Vietnam is being resisted by a civil society group, which insists that the Southeast...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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