The Africa Climate Justice Group (ACJG) – which is made up of 17 movements based and allied organisations – and partners will host the first ever African People’s Counter COP from October 25 to 27, 2021. The event will take place just days ahead of the official Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow and the outcomes will be targeted to the ...

There are hopes that the saga of the issuance of Forest Law Environment Governance Trade or Timber Legality Licence also known as FLEGT Licence in Ghana, will soon be over. Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor The issue will soon end not because the extant leases have now been converted into Timber Utilisation Contracts (TUCs), as this ...

Since the first quarter of 2021, Mayowa Adebo and his team of photographers, have been travelling to different parts of Nigeria to document how climate change is affecting communities – urban and rural. A log transporter. Image Title: Fallen (A man arranging logs of wood after a massive deforestation at Luvu community of Nasarawa state.) Credit: Wole Hammond, March 2019 ...

The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. Photo credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The report, first launched in 2019, measures the gap between governments’ planned production of coal, ...

 The Federal Government on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 expressed its concern over the spread of unhealthy practices and degenerating human activities in the country that impact the environment. Environment Minister of State, Sharon Ikeazor This, the government noted, had led to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, flooding and other environmental challenges in Nigeria. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Hassan ...

The University of Lagos’s waterfront is in need of urgent adequate shoreline protection as its ageing perimeter fence has collapsed, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said  on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, University of Lagos, Akoka Ogundipe made the disclosure in an interview in Lagos. “The rains that Lagos and its environs have experienced possibly due to the impact of climate change and subsequent higher-than-normal ...

Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has said Nigeria could unearth the enormous potentials tied to agriculture with the adoption and right application of agricultural Biotechnology. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State The governor stated this while declaring open the media, farmers, and extension agents retreat on modern biotechnology for the northeast region held in Yola, the Adamawa State ...

Indonesia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct a feasibility study of a $560 million coal-to-methanol plant. Coal-to-methanol plant Indonesia’s Industry Minister, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, said in a statement on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The MOU was signed on Oct.18, by the Industry Minister and representatives from PT Powerindo Cipta Energy and China National Chemical Engineering ...

The National Park Service has condemned the illegal felling of trees across Nigeria’s forests reserves, warning perpetrators to desist from the act or face the law. Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, Conservator-General of the National Parks Service The Conservator-General of the Service, Dr Ibrahim Goni, gave the warning on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in Abuja, while briefing newsmen virtually on government’s position ...

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come down heavily on the developed nations for climate “empty pledges” in the past decades. Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina She also made a plea to the world leaders to turn pledges into action. “If western leaders listen, engage and act decisively on what science demands of them, there is still time to make ...