Tag:Coastal Communities

Oil & Gas

Victory for SA coastal communities as court halts Shell, TotalEnergies’ offshore drilling project

In what looks like a landmark victory for civil society and coastal communities, the Western Cape High Court has set aside the South African...
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Climate Change

How Cuba’s coastal communities fight climate change

In the coastal neighbourhood of Litoral in Manzanillo, Cuba, the sea is both a lifeline and a threat. Every time a storm darkens the...
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Climate Change

Climate change: Experts call for action against existential threat of coastal communities

Environmental experts, under the aegis of the Academic Associates Peace Works (AAPW), have warned that several coastal communities in the Niger Delta region may...
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Marine

SA coastal communities, eco-justice groups’ offshore drilling appeal highlights threats to livelihoods, marine ecosystems

With COP29 just a few weeks away, The Green Connection, Natural Justice, and Masifundise Development Trust are drawing attention to the widespread opposition of the environmental...
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Human Settlement

Environmentalist advocates law to halt land reclamation in coastal communities

Government at all levels should rather focus on promulgating a law that will put an end to the reclamation of land across coastline communities...
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Climate challenges faced by coastal communities in Nigeria, by Nnimmo Bassey

Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, at Coastal Community Fishers Dialogue/Training at Uta Ewua, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, August 5, 2021,...
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Disaster Risk Management

Flooding: Clergyman joins in call to dredge River Niger

Bishop Prosper Amah of the Anglican Diocese of Ogbaru has called for the  immediate dredging of the River Niger to save the coastal communities...
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Climate Change

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming...
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Sustainable Devpt

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts and representatives of civil society, adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration...
Agric & Biotech

How agriculture restored peace between farmers, pastoralists in Plateau

In nearly every community I have worked in across Plateau State, I have heard some version of the same...

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Climate Change

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into...
Sustainable Devpt

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts...