The Chairman of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Environment, Adamu Omadefu, North Central Nigeria has raised alarm over environmental degradation and exploitative practices by a Chinese mining company, Multiverse. He disclosed this on Monday during a virtual media briefing saying residents of Abuni, a mining community in Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, are treated like
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The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has concluded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Nearly 200 countries committed to prioritizing land restoration and drought resilience as part of global efforts to address climate change and ensure food security. The conference, which brought together more than 20,000 participants, including 3,500 representatives from civil
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The Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology has unveiled plans to establish a model Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) system in urban centres across Nigeria, aiming to foster sustainable, energy-independent transportation and support the country’s climate action goals. This was disclosed by Mrs. Ayanda Medinat, a Deputy Director in the ministry’s Environmental Sciences and Technology Department, during a stakeholders’ workshop
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The Baku Initiative Group (BIG), an international non-governmental organization advocating for decolonization and combating neo-colonial practices, has appealed to Pope Francis to support the decolonization process of Corsica. In an open letter addressed to the Pope, Abbas Abbasov, Executive Director of the Baku Initiative Group, called attention to the enduring effects of colonialism in Corsica and urged the Pope to
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A staggering 77.6% of Earth’s land has experienced drier conditions over the last three decades, with significant implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and human livelihoods, a new United Nations report reveals. The report, The Global Threat of Drying Lands: Regional and Global Aridity Trends and Future Projections, launched at the ongoing 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention to Combat
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Nigeria is one of 32 countries selected to benefit from a new initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to revolutionize global agrifood systems, making them more sustainable, inclusive, and environmentally friendly. The program, dubbed the Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), was launched during Agrifood System Day at the ongoing16th Conference
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The Arab Coordination Group (ACG), a strategic alliance of ten leading development finance institutions, announced today a landmark commitment of up to US$10 billion by 2030 to address the critical challenges of land degradation, desertification and drought. The announcement was made during the Ministerial Dialogue on Finance: “Unlocking public and private finance for land restoration and drought resilience”, at the
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New data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reveals a troubling increase in internally displaced persons (IDPs) across Africa, surging from 11.6 million in 2009 to 35 million in 2023. The rise, driven by wars and climate disasters, underscores the urgent need for action despite earlier commitments by African leaders to tackle the root causes of displacement. In 2009,
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
Nuclear power is a solution to climate change because it is the largest source of low-carbon energy that produces minimal greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 1.18 billion) due to huge production which has led to the exportation of the according to recent
A new report from the UN Climate Change shows that countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature
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