Tag:UNESCO

Sustainable Devpt

UNESCO announces new partnership to actualise SDG goals

The Read and Earn Federation for UNESCO (UNESCO REF) has announced a new partnership with Global Learning Exchange (GLX), a global education solution operated...

Michael Simire - September 8, 2022

Marine

UNESCO launches plan to boost World Heritage-listed reefs’ resilience

All World Heritage-listed reefs are said to be at risk of disappearing by the end of this century. On the occasion of the Our...

admin - April 17, 2022

Conservation

World Wetlands Day: Local communities, climate activists revive demands for a fossil-free Virunga

As the World Wetlands Day was celebrated on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 under the theme “People and Nature”, local communities and civil society in the...

Michael Simire - February 3, 2022

Sustainable Devpt

World Education Day: Countries may not achieve 2030 global education targets, says report

A new report released on Monday, January 24, 2022 by UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring Report finds that, according to...

Michael Simire - January 24, 2022

Conservation

UNESCO marks 50th anniversary of biosphere preservation

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has commemorated the 50th anniversary of its Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), created in 1971 to...

Michael Simire - December 28, 2021

Gender

Stakeholders move to address water-induced gender challenges

Stakeholders in Water Resources Management have begun a workshop in Abuja to address some of the challenges women faced in accessing potable water. The workshop...

Michael Simire - October 28, 2021

Conservation

Nigeria’s losses in biodiversity must be reversed – Minister

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, says Nigeria’s losses in biodiversity must be reversed, so that the country would use...

Michael Simire - September 16, 2021

Conservation

UNESCO partners FRIN to approve 20 global biosphere reserves

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Abuja Regional Office, in collaboration with the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), has approved...

Michael Simire - September 15, 2021

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