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Winner gets $2,000 in AfDB, UNEP Sustainable Fashion contest

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Fashionomics Africa initiative is inaugurating a competition to support designers for sustainable fashion, according to a statement from AfDB...
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Fresh oil spill reported from Agip’s Ogboinbiri Well 7 in Bayelsa

Still smarting from an extensive crude oil spill that polluted their swamps and river around May/June 2020, residents of Ogboinbiri community in Apoi Clan...
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Co-hosted by the United Nations, United Kingdom and France in partnership with Chile and Italy, the Climate Ambition Summit 2020 held on December 12,...
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GEF Council moves to boost nature protection amid pandemic

Representatives of the Global Environment Facility’s 184 member countries moved this week, during a virtual meeting, to financially support countries seeking to protect nature...
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Six environmental trailblazers honoured as UNEP Champions of the Earth

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Friday, December 11 announced six winners of the 2020 Champions of the Earth Award for their pioneering initiatives...
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EU agrees 2030 emissions-cutting goal of 55%

EU leaders have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 per cent by the end of the decade, compared to 1990 levels...
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Environmental communication in Africa: Meaningful or meaningless journey?

As I drove through the streets of a major city in Nigeria, I could not but notice the pile of wastes littering on the...
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Shell dismisses alleged staff involvement in pipeline vandalism

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed a report alleging that its staff were involved in crude oil pipeline vandalism...
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