The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has called on Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Nigerian delegation to push for stronger language on alcohol harms in the forthcoming UN Political Declaration on Non communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health. The group said such an intervention would ensure that the declaration delivers on its promise to accelerate prevention and
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The Opening Conference of the Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW) on Monday, August 25, 2025, brought together global climate champions, Indigenous leaders, Nobel laureates, researchers, business executives, and policy shapers at Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Tomorrow. The event marked the beginning of a week-long series of activities, panels, and discussions designed to accelerate solutions to the world’s most pressing
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With just weeks to go before the world gathers in Brazil for COP 30, Africa is preparing to take center stage at the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The summit, scheduled for 8–10 September 2025, with pre-summit events from 5–7 September 2025, is shaping up to be a landmark platform for the continent to amplify its
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Brazilian officials announced on Friday that the government of Brazil has ruled out subsidizing hotel rates for all delegates at the United Nations Climate Summit it will be hosting in November. This was after a meeting they described as being tense with U.N. officials. As delegations become increasingly concerned about the price of accommodation in Belem, the Amazonian coastal city
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In March 2022, the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) launched what was hailed as a historic process: negotiations for a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution. The treaty was envisioned to take a full life-cycle approach, addressing plastics from production and design to use, disposal, and waste management. However, after six rounds of negotiations, the latest session in Geneva (August
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After ten days of intense negotiations in Geneva, the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) on developing a legally binding international instrument to end plastic pollution adjourned in the early hours of Friday 15 August without consensus on a treaty text. The outcome leaves the timeline for the historic agreement uncertain, even as plastic pollution continues to
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The Ocean Cleanup has expressed deep concern over the collapse of negotiations at the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), warning that the failure to reach agreement threatens the global fight against plastic pollution. The talks, held this week, stretched late into Thursday night and continued into the early hours of Friday, but ended without consensus. The
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As the historic Plastics Treaty negotiations reached their final hours in Geneva on Thursday, global waste picker leaders issued a resounding call to governments to enshrine a mandatory Just Transition in the final agreement warning that anything less would fail the 40 million waste pickers worldwide who are on the front lines of plastic recovery. Waste pickers, who recover 60%
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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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