No fewer than 10 Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have committed to greater collaboration to catalyze financing and boost climate action, as the World Bank and IMF annual meetings ended in Marrakech, Morocco, on Sunday, October 15, 2023. The banks are the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Council of Europe Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction
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The 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) is imminently upon us. Leaders around the world, including those of Africa, will converge on Dubai (United Arab Emirates) in November, to, among other things, discuss and negotiate the future of our planet. This is coming on the heel of the just concluded inaugural African climate submit held in Kenya between
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The countdown to COP28 has begun and battle lines have been drawn. In just two months in Dubai, two alternate realities are set to collide. On the one side, a concerted drive to set an end date for fossil fuels and a 2030 target for clean energy production. On the other, a renewed push from oil, gas & coal countries
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with the European Commission and the European Investment Bank has announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities, which include eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most. The partnership is contained in a report released by the World
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says water availability remains essential to the survival of migratory birds. World Migratory Bird Day was initiated in 2006 by the Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). Originally, the idea
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Will COP28 be significantly different and, if so, how exactly? This is one question on the minds of many people – not only those who are at the center of the climate crisis. In a few weeks from now, over 70,000 participants are expected to converge on the Expo City, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the 28th
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A paid fellowship opportunity is available for young climate advocates, offering selected participants a chance to attend COP28. The Loss and Damage Collaboration, in partnership with the Climate Leadership Initiative, is currently inviting applications for the “New Generation Fellowship Programme on Loss and Damage.” This program is designed for individuals aged 22 to 35 from the Global South and provides
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Journalists often may need to travel for their work, for instance for a reporting project or conference. This is harder for certain journalists, depending on where they are from. A journalist’s country of origin may dictate the likelihood that they have their visa applications denied or need visas in the first place among other travel impediments that hinder on-the-ground reporting,
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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.
