How renewable energy will drive Vision 2020/20 – Govt

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For Nigeria to be among the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020, an environmentally sustainable energy supply must be addressed. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, who made the disclosure last Thursday (14 July, 2016) in Abuja at the opening of the Validation Workshop the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Action Agenda, added that the energy ...

Experts to Confab: How to repair nation’s degraded environment

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Concerned by the lack of sufficient enabling laws to protect the environment coupled with the devastating effects of climate change in the country, a group of environment and climate change experts recently in Abuja presented a memorandum to the Environment Committee of the National Conference. The forum was facilitated by the Abuja-based Nigeria country office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). ...

Incorporating sound chemicals management in MDGs, Vision 20/2020 dreams

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Experts have underlined the need for a well-coordinated mechanism that would ensure the eventual incorporation of sound chemicals management priorities and recommended activities in the Vision 20/2020 document. They likewise observed that the endeavour is essential to attaining the millennium development goals (MDGs). Besides the overlapping of organisational responsibilities at the national, regional and local levels, they are however worried ...