Monthly Archives: September, 2021

Health

Online shopping sites urged to take down product listings for banned mercury-laden skin whiteners

The EcoWaste Coalition on Monday, September 13, 2021, appealed to online retail giants to remove product listings for mercury-laden skin whitening cosmetics long proscribed...
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Cover

227 environmental activists murdered in 2020, says report

A Global Witness report released on Monday, September 13, 2021 reveals that 227 land and environmental activists were murdered in 2020 for defending their land and...
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Climate Change

COP26: Climate emergency demands policy shift to adaptation, say leaders

Global leaders on Monday, September 6, 2021, gathered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to participate in the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) High Level Dialogue...
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Conservation

World Rivers Day 2021 emphasises urban waterways restoration

Numerous physical and virtual events will mark the World Rivers Day 2021 on Sunday, September 26 in what has become one of the largest...
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Human Welfare

Shell trains 40 Imo youths for Assah North-Ohaji South gas project

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has commenced a one-year professional and vocational training for 40 youths from the SPDC Joint Venture...
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Renewable Energy

Coal replaces wind as Germany’s biggest energy source

Coal displaced wind power as Germany’s most important energy source in the first half of 2021, with a debate over climate change measures raging...
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Climate Change

Environmental youth movement calls for global climate strike on Sept. 24

The Fridays for Future environmental youth movement is calling for a global climate strike on Sept. 24, 2021. Activists want to mobilise people across the...
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Conservation

IUCN Congress closes with call for a post-pandemic recovery based on nature

The IUCN World Conservation Congress closed on Friday, September 10, 2021 in Marseille, France and online, setting the nature conservation agenda for the next...
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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Climate Change

Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...
Health

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

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Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

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