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Women’s Day: Women crucial in tobacco control – ERA

As the world commemorates the 2019 International Women's Day, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged women and gender rights groups across...

How women lead the way in adapting to climate change, by EJN

With the world marking the 2019 International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8, the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) takes stock of some of its best...

Outcry over planned release of GM maize in South Africa

The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has said that it will object plans to commercially release three genetically-modified (GM) maize seed varieties in South Africa. American agricultural...

Women’s Day: Time to scale up meaningful action – Andersen

Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Inger Andersen, in a statement to observe the International Women’s Day 2019, says that the organisation’s “Gender Equality...

Germany opens competence centre for climate protection

Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry will open a competence centre for climate protection in energy-intensive industries (KEI) in Cottbus later this year. This was announced by State Secretary...

UN confirms COP25 date

The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) decided at its 24th Session in December 2018 in Katowice,...

Women’s Day: When smart tech will work for women – Thiaw

In the context of the International Women's Day and the UN's focus on Science and Technology that enhances gender equality, innovation for change, and is smart,...

Group seeks review of remediation techniques for Ogoni cleanup

A non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has appealed to the Federal Government to revisit the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland...

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Building country capacities to access funding for climate adaptation

As climate change accelerates, the urgency for countries to implement crucial plans that build resilience to impacts of climate...
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Don advocates state of emergency in power sector

A Professor of Energy and Power Engineering, Osadolor Odia, has called for a state of emergency in power generation...

Ekwueme varsity, World Resources Institute to present report on oil and gas transition implications on Nigerian economy

The Centre for Climate Change and Development (CCCD) at Alex Ekwueme Federal University, in collaboration with the World Resources...

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Building country capacities to access funding for climate adaptation

As climate change accelerates, the urgency for countries to...

Don advocates state of emergency in power sector

A Professor of Energy and Power Engineering, Osadolor Odia,...
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