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Carbon credits: Amazon initiative attracts $160m for projects covering 17m ha of threatened rainforest

Everland, a specialised conservation marketing organisation in the climate change mitigation business, has secured Letters of Intent totaling $160 million from companies seeking to...

Minamata Convention concerns as largest flow of illegal mercury to the Amazon exposed

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA US)’s new report, "Traffickers Leave No Stone Unturned", exposes the large-scale trafficking of mercury from mercury mines in Mexico - located...

Brazilian communities reject Amazon oil exploration, demand suspension of licensing process

In what looks like a historic demonstration, over 60 chiefs of the Indigenous peoples Karipuna, Galibi Marworno, Galibi Kali’na and Palikur Arukwayene, from Oiapoque,...

Reactions as Amazon stocks Jeremy Rifkin’s ‘Planet Aqua’

What would happen if we suddenly realised that the planet we live on appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other...

German union, Greenpeace slam Amazon’s Black Friday

The large German services trade union Verdi and environmental organisation Greenpeace held protests to express opposition to online retailer Amazon’s Black Friday discount campaign...

$9.1m GCF facility boosts wetlands management in Peruvian communities

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has begun disbursing resources to the first project it approved in Peru’s Amazon, providing dual benefits by safeguarding the...

Vicious circle of drought, forest loss in the Amazon

Logging that happens today and potential future rainfall reductions in the Amazon could push the region into a vicious dieback circle. If dry seasons...

Industrialists, scientists seek ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in Amazon region

Drawing on biodiversity and biomimetics, new innovation model proposes to use science, cutting-edge technology and indigenous knowledge to carve out new path for development...

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Energy firm boosts host communities with N101bn investments

Heritage Energy Operational Services Ltd. (HEOSL) says it committed not less than N101 billion to community development projects across...
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Seplat completes conversion of onshore assets to PIA fiscal regime

Seplat Energy Plc, a Nigerian independent energy company, says its subsidiaries have completed the conversion of their operated onshore...

NNPC reaffirms commitment to peace, responsible energy development in Ogoniland

The Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), Bashir Bayo Ojulari, has reaffirmed the...

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Energy firm boosts host communities with N101bn investments

Heritage Energy Operational Services Ltd. (HEOSL) says it committed...

Seplat completes conversion of onshore assets to PIA fiscal regime

Seplat Energy Plc, a Nigerian independent energy company, says...
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