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Sustainable Devpt

Earth Day, Water Day, Wetlands Day share ecosystem restoration messages

As the month of April 2025 comes to an end, there is need to recall and reflect on messages from three of some of...
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Sustainable Devpt

Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet – beyond renewables

Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day celebration, the theme “Our Power, Our Planet” was chosen to commemorate the 2025 edition of this annual...
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Pollution

Circular economy: Key to reducing plastic pollution

The prediction that, by 2050, oceans will contain more plastic than fish (by weight), highlights the detrimental effects that plastic pollution has on the...
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Conservation

Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn in grants for key component of Inflation Reduction Act

US President Joe Biden has announced $7 billion in awards through EPA’s Solar for All programme and unveiled major steps to advance the American...
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Pollution

Earth Day 2024: Moving towards a plastic-free Nigeria

As we celebrate World Earth Day 2024, the theme of “Planet vs. Plastics” resonates deeply in our collective consciousness, because we all see the...
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What to give our planet – and its people – for Earth Day? Climate Income is the perfect present

As Earth Day (April 22) comes around again, we find ourselves at a crossroads, with the path we choose likely to determine whether or...
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Sustainable Devpt

Monumental ‘Earth Week’ holds in honour of 2023 theme, ‘Invest in Our Planet’

Earth Day Network (EARTHDAY.ORG), the global organiser of Earth Day and largest recruiter of the environmental movement worldwide, announced on Monday, April 10, 2023,...
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Sustainable Devpt

Top 10 Earth Day events of 2023

Just as Valentine’s Day nudges us to cherish our loved ones a little more, Earth Day is a reminder to dedicate our time, resources,...
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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...