Nearly 70 percent of people under the age of 18 are most likely to think that climate change is a serious global emergency. According to the UNDP’s Peoples’ Climate Vote, the largest public opinion poll on the subject has ever been conducted. Changes in weather patterns, high temperatures, and extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, and droughts are some
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Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is also a social and economic problem affecting communities around the world. In Nigeria’s Kwara state, the impact of climate change is being felt in a particularly devastating way, as it is impacting children’s access to education. The changing climate is making it difficult for children to attend school and receive
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A new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) states that plastic pollution could reduce by 80 percent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies. The report released ahead of the 2023 World Environment Day on June 5, and a second round of negotiations in Paris on a global agreement to beat
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This year’s Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) starting on Monday, 5 June, is designed to prepare decisions for adoption at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in December. Building on the many mandates that emerged from COP27 in Egypt last year, the conference will convene the 58th session of the UNFCCC subsidiary bodies, including a large number of events, and
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Lawmakers from the European Parliament and the US Congress has added their voice to several others who have remained steadfast in urging the United Arab Emirates, the host of the UNFCCC-COP28, to withdraw nomination of COP 28 President-Designate Sultan Al Jaber. The letter, addressed to President Joe Biden of the United States, UN President Von der Leyen, and Secretary General
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A civil society organisation with a focus on the environment, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has called for caution over the planned investment by the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the Ogun Agro Processing Zone. HOMEF’s Director, Nnimmo Bassey, in a statement mailed to DA News the plan could harshly affect the access to farmland
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The projected cost of implementing Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) within the next seven years is in the region of $543 billion. The disclosure was made by the immediate past Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, in a keynote address he delivered at the Stakeholders’ validation meeting on the Nigeria’s NDCs & Energy Transition Plan (ETP) Implementation Framework held in Abuja
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A coalition of almost 20 global organizations has called on governments to act to ensure that citizens have access to adequate health services. The call was made at the World Health Assembly (WHA76) under the theme ‘WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all’ this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The coalition pointed that Health is everyone’s human right, and
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
Nuclear power is a solution to climate change because it is the largest source of low-carbon energy that produces minimal greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 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
Dare Akogun is a media innovator, strategic communication professional, and climate and energy transition journalist with over 11 years of impactful contributions to the media industry.
