Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria would require $17.7 billion annually to achieve its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) unconditional pledges by 2030. Tinubu made this known while speaking ongoing Africa Climate Summit in Kenya, saying the summit came at a pivotal juncture, offering Nigeria an exclusive stage to spotlight its priorities, solutions, and needs regarding climate action to the
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The president-designate of the upcoming COP28 summit, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, said the world is losing the race to meet its climate change goals. Al Jaber, who also heads the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, told delegates at the ongoing Africa Climate Summit in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, saying “We are not delivering the results that we need in the time
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An international Child Rights Agency Save the Children, has said that children displaced within their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa by climate-induced disasters nearly doubled in 2022. This was contained in a statement by the agency, made available to newsmen on Monday, September 4, 2023, in Lagos, Nigeria. Relying on data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the agency said
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The Africa Climate Week 2023 welcomes policymakers, practitioners, business and civil society representatives from 4 to 8 September 2023 in Nairobi, in parallel to the Africa Climate Summit on 4-6 September, both hosted by the Government of Kenya. As the world grapples with the urgent challenges posed by climate change, African Climate Week will address this pressing crisis through cooperation
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Africa’s first climate summit kicked off in the Kenyan capital today with delegates aiming to forge a common position ahead of upcoming global conferences and discussing how to fund the continent’s environmental priorities. This is the first-ever climate summit co-hosted by Kenya and the African Union. President William Ruto welcomed all delegates who responded to the call to attend the
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The Italian consulate-general in Lagos, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the support of Solution17 for Climate Action has hinted at plans to champion and empower youths for climate action in the country. The Italian Consul General, Mr. Ugo Boni, stated that Nigeria-Italy Youth4Climate will offer young climate activists, entrepreneurs, technologists, and innovators the opportunity to
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The Pan-African Parliamentary Dialogue convenes in Nairobi, Kenya to mobilize and align the efforts of African legislatures and parliamentarians around the resolutions and recommendations on climate justice and equity to influence the global climate agenda for a sustainable future for Africa and the world. The meeting, holding from August 31 to September 1, 2023, at the instance of the Pan-African
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Children in Africa are among the most at risk of the impacts of climate change but are woefully neglected by the key climate financing flows required to help them adapt, survive and respond to the climate crisis. According to a UNICEF report released today, Friday, September 1, 2023 Time to Act: African Children in the Climate Change Spotlight, it says
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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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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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