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11 Dec
Close to $7 trillion is invested across the globe yearly to check negative impact on nature, the latest State of Finance for Nature report released yesterday at COP28 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners showed.
11 Dec
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has again issued an Emissions Gap Report that underscores the fact that the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the linchpin of the Paris agreement is not leading away from the climate precipice but is rather increasing the speed to a catastrophic plunge. 
20 Nov
Countries' greenhouse gas-cutting pledges put Earth on track for warming far beyond key limits, potentially up to a catastrophic 2.9 degrees Celsius this century, the UN said Monday, urging G20 nations to boost emissions cuts.
2 Oct
The greatest challenge among men, the Church especially in Africa, and Nigeria in particular is the non-realisation that God from inception empowered man through the mandate issued in Genesis 1 verses 26 to 28. That is, “Dominate, subdue, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
18 Sep 2023
A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Yale Centre for Ecosystems and Architecture (Yale CEA), under the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) has recommended measures to decarbonise the building and construction sector.
12 Jun 2023
A professor of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Forensics, Igbinedion University Okada (IUO), Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye has advocated the use of technological innovations to manage plastic waste crises in the country.
22 May 2023
Ahead of a second round of negotiations in Paris, next week on a global agreement to beat plastic pollution, a new report has revealed that plastic pollution could reduce by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy, as well as market shifts using existing technologies.
15 May 2023
Aproximately 180 countries to the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Stockholm Convention have agreed to add two toxic plastic chemicals and a pesticide to the agreement’s list of substances for global elimination.
12 May 2023
Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), yesterday, ranked Nigeria as largest economy in Africa power-wise. It said only three to four per cent of energy consumption of Nigerian manufacturing industry come from grid-connected electricity.
17 Apr 2023
Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, has said the mandate of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Ogoni cleanup project will end this year.

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