Petteri Taalas, secretary-general to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), an agency of the UN, says the current decade is on track to be the hottest in world's history. Taalas said this on Tuesday at the UN climate summit in Madrid, Spain.The event saw the gathering of delegates from nearly 200 countries to iron out rules to reach the Paris Agreement’s goal [...]
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Our climate is changing. At the United Nations General Assembly that just concluded, there was a Climate Action Summit, which addressed the dire consequences of Climate Change. In the face of worsening climate crisis, WorldLeaders from government, business, and civil societymet to come up with new pathways and practical actions to shift global response into higher gear. They deliberated on [...]
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Goldsmiths University, London, has banned all beef products from its campus "to help fight climate change".CNN is reporting that the university also announced an additional levy of 12 cents on bottled water and single-use plastics.Frances Corner, the university's warden, was quoted as saying the measures is part of steps introduced to help the fight against climate crisis.Beef is said to [...]
On Tuesday, Nigeria’s house of representatives passed a bill banning the use and sale of plastic bags in the country. According to the legislation, anyone that fails to provide customers with paper bags in place of plastic ones risks three years in jail or a fine of N500,000 - or both at the worst case scenario. The bill would have [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria needs about $1 trillion investment to modernise its energy infrastructure.Osinbajo said this on Thursday while declaring open the National Energy and Climate Change summit at the state house conference center in Abuja.Represented by Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of science and technology, the vice-president said the Buhari administration was doing a lot to attract both domestic and [...]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, says fighting climate change can add $26 trillion to the world economy by 2030.The former Nigerian minister of finance said addressing climate change issues could generate more than 65 million new low-carbon jobs and avoid more than 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.Speaking at the 2018 Global Commission [...]
Nigeria will issue green bonds worth N150 billion to the public in 2018 as a means of increasing climate funding.Ahmad Salihijo, a technical assistant to the minister of environment, made this known while speaking at a panel discussion on climate finance work for women and non-state actors in Lagos.Nigeria issued its first green bond, which was worth N10 billion, in [...]
BY DAVID EMOCHE Herdsmen-farmers’ crisis in Nigeria has left deep wounds in the heart of many. The thought of the hundreds of lives that have been wiped off the face of the earth or the several viable communities deserted in the middle-belt region of the country is black and unbearable. Furthermore, the crushing experience has thrown the entire country into a [...]
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), migration streams within Africa are larger than those out of Africa.In a report released in 2016, UNECA said about 31 million of the continent’s 1.2 billion population have migrated internationally, while more than half of those migrating internationally do so within Africa.Ouidah, one of the 10 major cities in Benin Republic, [...]
The World Bank says it will stop financing upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.The Bretton Wood institution made this known on Tuesday at a climate summit intended to boost global shift to cleaner energy."As a global multilateral development institution, the World Bank Group is continuing to transform its own operations in recognition of a rapidly changing world," the bank [...]
Ibrahim Jibril, minister of state for environment has said that Nigeria requires $142 billion translating to about $10 billion per annum to meet its intended nationally determined contributions (NDC), under the international climate change accord by 2030.Jibril said this at the United Nations general assembly in New York, while delivering a progress report on Nigeria’s climate change goal under the [...]
Ibrahim Jibril, minister of state for environment, says buildings constructed along water channels caused the flood in Benue state.Esther Agbarakwe, media aide of the minister, quoted him as saying this after an assessment of the flooded areas.Jibril, who also a paid a visit to Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, commiserated with the people and reiterated the collective need to address [...]
The world has just three years left to reduce carbon dioxide emissions “before it is too late,” a group of climate experts and scientists said on Wednesday.The warning is a week ahead of the G20 meeting of world leaders in Hamburg.If annual emissions continue to rise beyond 2020, or even remain stable, temperature targets set by the Paris climate agreement [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says climate change is driving millions of people in the Lake Chad Basin into poverty.Buhari also said the poor regional integration and the climate change experienced in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is as a result of globalisation.He said this while speaking at the 50th ordinary session of the ECOWAS summit of heads of [...]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, two-time minister of finance, says the climate change agenda, currently being ambitiously pushed by the world, must respect the rights and growth aspirations of the developing world.The former minister, who is currently attending the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) said "developing nations have contributed the least to the climate change crisis through their carbon emissions, yet their often [...]
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