On 11 November, Nigeria will join representatives from nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan for COP29. The two-week global summit will bring together global key stakeholders to collaborate on the urgent need to “enhance ambition and enable action” for climate change. In enabling action, COP29 will address the critical role of finance, a fundamental tool to turn ambition into action
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Southeast Asian civil society organizations have called on parties at the ongoing United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) in Cali, Colombia, to recognize the serious threats posed by the continued expansion of fossil fuels, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil exploration, to global biodiversity. The region, home to the Coral Triangle, one of the world’s richest areas
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Stakeholders have called for greater advocacy, social mobilization, and resource mobilization as key strategies to meet the 2030 SDG targets. The call was made at the end of a high-level global event organized Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) recently, which centered on the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their direct relevance to people’s lives. The event,
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called on countries to identify and phase out subsidies harmful to biodiversity, in a new report aimed at boosting environmental protection and reshaping public expenditure towards sustainable practices. The report, titled the BIOFIN Workbook 2024, was launched on the sidelines of the ongoing 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological
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As the United Nations biodiversity conference kicks off today in Cali, Colombia, a new report by Wetlands International has revealed that wetlands feature prominently in most of the new national nature plans submitted by countries ahead of COP16. The report, titled Assessing the Inclusion of Wetlands in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), indicates that 83 percent of the
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The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) officially opened today in Cali, Colombia, bringing together over 23,000 delegates from across the world. The summit is expected to mark a major milestone in the global effort to protect biodiversity and implement the ambitious Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), adopted during COP 15 in 2022.
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Oxfam International has revealed that up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance remains unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping, raising serious concerns ahead of the upcoming COP 29 in Azerbaijan, dubbed the ‘Climate Finance COP.’ The report, published on Thursday, October 17, 2024, highlighted the discrepancies within the World Bank’s climate finance portfolio from 2017 to 2023, leaving
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In September 2024, over 130 world leaders convened in New York for what the United Nations has dubbed the most ambitious international agreement in years: the “Pact for the Future.” The wide-ranging 56-point agreement touches on multiple global challenges, with climate change taking center stage. While the pact promises to deliver where past agreements have struggled, many are asking whether
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
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As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 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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