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Health

Poor power supply blamed for increasing greenhouse gases emission

An environmentalist, Mr Emmanuel Emechete, has fingered the poor power supply in Nigeria for the increasing rate of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission in the...

Michael Simire - May 14, 2020

Climate Change

COP26: African Group urges developed nations to close climate finance gap

In a response to the decision to postpone the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UNFCCC due to the global COVID-19...

Michael Simire - May 13, 2020

Climate Change

Lessons for climate action from Covid-19 responses to the vulnerable

The Covid-19 pandemic has been on the frontline globally in the last few months. The attention it has received surpassed that given to the...

Michael Simire - May 7, 2020

Climate Change

IPCC to dedicate report to former co-chair who died of coronavirus

The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be dedicated to the memory...

Michael Simire - May 2, 2020

Human Welfare

Coronavirus frontline workers will also help in climate crisis

May Boeve (executive-director at 350.org), Luisa Neubauer (German climate activist and one of the main organisers of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany), Sharan Burrow (general secretary of the...

Michael Simire - May 1, 2020

Climate Change

Study clamours reduction in meat consumption to combat climate change

Western countries need to reduce their intake of red meat dramatically if they want to truly tackle climate change. That’s according to a new...

admin - October 16, 2018

Pollution

Businesses, cities, regions urged to disclose their carbon pollution

Governor of California State, Edmund G. Brown Jr.; United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa; and Mahindra Group CEO, Anand Mahindra, have joined forces...

admin - June 5, 2018

Climate Change