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An NGO, Rights Advocacy and Development Centre (RADEC), which recently joined other civil society groups around the world to mark both the Africa Day of Action and the Global Day of Action on Climate Change, has called for Real Action, and not Net Zero. Members of Rights Advocacy and Development Centre (RADEC) during in a climate action campaign The group ...

The UK government on Thursday, November 11, 2021, launched the new Urban Climate Action programme (UCAP) to support the cities and regions in developing countries most impacted by climate change to accelerate their transition to net zero. UK Business and Energy Minister, Lord Callanan Backed with £27.5 million of new UK government funding as part of the UK’s International Climate ...

As pressure mounts for urgent climate action, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 issued a global roadmap to achieve a radical transformation of energy access and transition by 2030, while also contributing to net zero emissions by 2050. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres The roadmap sets an aggressive timeline to ensure that 500 million more people gain ...

Finance ministers, international finance institutions and the financial sector met at COP26 on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 to get global finance flowing for climate action. The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, main venue of COP26 Mobilising finance is said to be critical if the world is to deliver the urgent action needed to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C. Trillions ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that Nigeria will cut its emissions to net zero by 2060. President Muhammadu Buhari Buhari made the revealation while delivering his national statement at COP26 Leaders’ Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. The president said that attaining national and global climate change goals would require adequate and sustained technical and financial support ...

The accolades the Federal Government of Nigeria is according net-zero continues to bemuse the Nigeria and global climate justice community. Comments credited to top government officials paint the picture that the current administration may have bought the false and scientifically unproven net zero initiative that Shell and other Big Polluters contorted to remain in business while the climate continues to ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries to fulfill their promise of $100 billion to developing countries towards achieving Net-Zero Emissions. Vice President of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo Net-Zero Emission entails removing all man-​made greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere through reduction measures by 2050. Osinbajo made this call while featuring in ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the plan to defund gas projects in the run up to the global net-zero emissions target will be unhelpful to developing countries such as Nigeria. Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo (left), with COP26 President-Designate, Mr Alok Sharma Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Saturday, October 9, 2021 in Abuja, said the vice ...

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on leaders everywhere to take urgent climate action.  “Mother Nature is not waiting,” he said. “We need a green planet – but the world is on red alert.” UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres The UN Chief, who made the submission on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at the opening of the two-day Leaders’ Summit on Climate hosted ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the U.S. to support the call for a just global transition to net-zero emissions and lead the effort to ensure easy access to COVID-19 vaccine by all countries. Vice President of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo The vice president also called on U.S. to generally reset its foreign policy agenda with the African continent in ...