The European Union is on course to achieve its 2020 target of reducing greenhouse gases by one-fifth compared to 1990 levels, the bloc’s environmental agency said on Monday, November 30, 2020. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen In 2019, greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change decreased by almost 4 per cent in the 27 EU members, a decline that “occurred before the ...

A non-governmental organisation working globally on trade in wild animals and plants, TRAFFIC, has said that it obtained valuable new insights into the organisation, activities and modus operandi of criminal operations, thanks to the voluntary co-operation of 73 offenders imprisoned in South Africa for wildlife crime offences.  Wildlife crime: African elephant poaching The new study, titled: “Insights from the Incarcerated: An assessment of ...

A Ghanaian environmental champion, Ezekiel Chibeze, has been announced as the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2020, citing his commitment to pushing for good governance in Ghana’s environmental sector and for his climate leadership in Ghana, across Africa and globally. The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world’s foremost award honouring grassroots environmental activists. Ezekiel Chibeze Chibeze joins an illustrious ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is implementing a No and Low Emission Transport project, which aims to promote a global transition to no- and low-emissions mobility for improved air quality and climate change mitigation. Some of the participants at the virtual workshop To realise the overarching goal of this project, countries and cities will be supported to develop and ...

Officials of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have disclosed that what looks like an extensive oil spill occurred in the early hours of Sunday, November 29, 2020 in Bayelsa State. The polluted Apoi Creek The spill, according to them, came off a yet-to-be-properly-identified facility belonging to an oil major. The incident, they added, happened between Ogboinbiri ...

Effectively launched in 2020, the MRV project is nationally supported by the Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change of the Republic of Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso As part of tackling climate change, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order ...

The European Court of Human Rights announced on Monday, November 30, 2020 its decision to green-light a first-of-its-kind climate case against 33 countries. Its “communication” of the case to the defendant countries now requires each one of them to respond to the complaint filed by six Portuguese youth-applicants. European Court of Human Rights As most cases filed with the Strasbourg ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is promoting a transition to zero / low emissions mobility, for better air quality and climate change mitigation. The no-and-low emission clean transport project is said to be one of the main concerns of the UN organisation. Some of the participants at the virtual workshop But the success of this project requires support for ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Dec.1, roll out the  National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP) to deepen domestic usage of gas in the country. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva This is contained in a statement by Alhaji Garba Deen Muhammad, Special Adviser on Media to Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva, in Abuja, on Sunday, ...

The Presidency has said it will deliver five million solar systems to 25 million Nigerians previously not connected to the national grid though Solar Home Systems, under the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). Solar panels on the roof of a building powering fridge and lighting systems in a community in Hong LGA in Adamawa State Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to ...