Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Climate scenarios can serve as yardstick for central banks’ risk assessment – Experts

Stability is at the core of central banks’ objectives. To assess climate destabilisation risks, major central banks, and supervisors plan to utilise climate scenarios...

How wild horses help landscape adapt to climate changes

Climate changes increasingly influence landscape development. Five extremely arid years in a row that reigned in Central Europe from 2015 have had an impact...

Amid pandemic, Equator Prize winners provide blueprints for nature-based recovery

Dubbed “Super Year for Nature”, 2020 would have seen a string of high-profile events on nature and biodiversity, the renewal of the global biodiversity...

Benin Republic joins Elephant Protection Initiative

The Republic of Benin has joined the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), a coalition of African countries dedicated to the sustainable conservation of elephants and...

CSOs advocate ‘green recovery’ out of COVID-19 pandemic

A network of civil society organisations (CSOs) has called for a “Green Recovery Deal” out of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The CSOs made the call in...

World Environment Day: FCT, group plant trees to ‘green’ 10 Abuja schools

No fewer than 10 secondary schools in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), were beneficiaries of a recent initiative designed to uplift the school...

Nigeria, UK sign MoU on Energy Calculator 2050

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, and the Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 witnessed the...

Cameroon, Togo, Seychelles get AfDB COVID-19 lifeline

Cameroon, Togo and Seychelles have received a boost in their battle against COVID-19 as the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB)...

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TotalEnergies strikes new oil discovery offshore Congo

Energy major, TotalEnergies, has announced a new hydrocarbon discovery on the Moho license offshore the Republic of Congo, marking...
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Almost half of European freshwater fishes at risk of extinction – IUCN

The updated European Red List of Freshwater Fishes – the most comprehensive assessment in 15 years – reveals little evidence of...

Ottmar Edenhofer re-elected Chair of EU climate advisory board

The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, which began its second four-year term at the end of March...

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TotalEnergies strikes new oil discovery offshore Congo

Energy major, TotalEnergies, has announced a new hydrocarbon discovery...

Almost half of European freshwater fishes at risk of extinction – IUCN

The updated European Red List of Freshwater Fishes – the most...