Monthly Archives: February, 2021

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Big Polluters use ‘net zero’, carbon markets to hide climate inaction – Report

A report has unpacked the science behind “net zero” claims and how they are used to obscure climate inaction. It explores the new strategies...
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Pollution

Environmentalists, residents lament indiscriminate gas burning, leaks from Agip’s facility in Bayelsa

Environmentalists and residents on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 raised concerns over the dangers faced by residents near the Ogboinbiri Oilfield operated by Nigeria Agip...
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Pollution

Kenya still at risk despite UN plastics nod – Greenpeace

In the lead up to the UN summit being held in Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has named Kenya as an emerging leader in...
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Health

Red Cross intensifies Ebola response amidst fears of regional spread

Red Cross teams in Guinea and across West Africa are ramping up response efforts to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak. Red Cross volunteers and staff...
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Cover

Forum explores implications of polluters’ judgment for environmental justice

Over the last six decades the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been immersed in extensive environmental pollution from the activities of oil and...
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ERA crisis: Bassey, others to face contempt of court

The leadership crisis currently rocking the Benin City-based civil society organisation (CSO), Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), appears to have taken...
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Sustainable Devpt

UNDP-GEF programme, SRADev to produce fertiliser, biogas from piggery waste

A pilot waste-to-resource project that will convert pig waste to organic fertiliser and biogas is set to kick off at the Oke-Aro Pig Farm...
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UNEA-5 opens with adoption of three decisions

The permanent representatives to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reached agreement on three decisions regarding the future of UNEP’s work on Wednesday, February 17,...
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Climate Change

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming...
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Sustainable Devpt

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts and representatives of civil society, adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration...
Agric & Biotech

How agriculture restored peace between farmers, pastoralists in Plateau

In nearly every community I have worked in across Plateau State, I have heard some version of the same...

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Climate Change

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into...
Sustainable Devpt

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts...