In a presentation made on Friday, November 22, 2019 at the International Symposium on Environmental Thinking & Development Alternatives: South-South and South-North Views hosted by Universidad Nacional, Colombia, Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), warns that protests will continue until governments wake up to the fact that they are elected to govern and not to babysit corporations ...

Some climate reality leaders, teachers, religious leaders and other stakeholders in the environment sector on Thursday, November 21, 2019 held a 24-hour reality education programme to address climate change issues. Al Gore, leader of Climate Reality Project. Photo credit: Jojo Mamangun/Climate Reality They held the programme at the Army of God Church, Lugbe, Abuja, to join 1,600 action presentations against climate change across ...

Pope Francis on Friday, November 22, 2019 warned that technology and globalisation were homogenising young people around the world to the point where their uniqueness and cultural individuality were becoming endangered species. Pope Francis The 82-year-old pontiff made his appeal for young people to hold on to the cultures handed down by their ancestors and cherish their roots at a ...

The High-Level Climate Champion for Chile, Gonzalo Muñoz, has called on cities, regions, businesses, and investors to join his country’s Climate Ambition Alliance at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain in December 2019. He said this in a recently published letter. High-Level Climate Champion for Chile, Gonzalo Muñoz At the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in New York in September, Chile announced ...

Strong action on climate change as well as legal migration routes for those affected by environmental disasters are needed to address climate-related migration, experts on Friday, November 22, 2019 said. Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International Migration at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) The “tipping point” for climate migration “is already behind us,” Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International ...

The world is in dire straits due to pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and dangerous radiation from cell phone towers. It is pertinent we embrace natural wholistic ecosystem solutions to solve our environmental challenges and fight pollution and gas emissions. Trees or plant cover should be planted in such a way that people can walk or sit under them and benefit ...

The critical role of the transport sector in achieving the goal of the Paris Climate Change Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels was the theme of a high-level Global e-Mobility Forum held in Warsaw, Poland, from November 20 to 21, 2019. Ovais Sarmad, deputy executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Participants at the forum ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are working together to support a $154.0 million renewable energy financing framework in Zambia. AFDB president, Akinwunmi Adesina Historically, Zambia has relied on hydropower generation for 90% of its energy needs. Since 2015, Zambia has faced challenges in meeting the country’s electricity demand – a challenge that is exacerbated ...

The Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) International has called for the Great Green Wall to be built across several states in northern Nigeria to combat the effects of climate change and desertification. Great Green Wall Vice President (Africa), GLOBE International, Mr Samuel Onuigbo, made the call at the launch of the GLOBE-UNEP-GEF project on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is now financing climate action in over 100 developing countries after the final Board meeting of 2019 approved 13 new projects. GCF executive director, Yannick Glemarec The 24th Board meeting closed on Thursday, November 14, 2019 in Songdo, Republic of Korea after allocating $407.8 million, raising GCF’s total portfolio to $5.6 billion. This includes new ...