Environment

Companies risk losing $1trillion in five years from climate change

A group of the world’s biggest companies representing nearly $17 trillion in market capitalization have valued the climate risks to their businesses...

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REDD+, others move to salvage Cross River forest

A non-governmental organization, Wise Administration of Terrestrial Environment (WATER) has organised an “institutional capacity building...

Negotiators seek greater ambition as UN climate talks begin today in Bonn

Governments are meeting today in Bonn to make progress on several items central to climate change negotiations.

Denmark’s Inger Andersen to head UNEP

Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen today took up her new role as Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme...

NCF, SETPOM push for measures to mitigate air pollution

Disturbed by increasing effects of air pollution on human survival, environmentalists have proposed a shift toward use of renewable energy...

‘UN report demonstrates growing climate action’

United Nations (UN) climate change has launched its Annual Report, highlighting the progress made on tackling climate change in 2018 and the ways...

Nigeria turns spotlight on air pollution at World Environment Day

Piqued by the disastrous effects of air pollution on humans and plants, environmental experts have advocated the enactment of clean Air Act to ensure a composite action against it. With the economic impact of air pollution estimated to reach $2.2 trillion in 2060 globally, a legislative instrument, they said, should be used to fight the…

Experts set agenda for Buhari government on environment

Civil society groups and experts have examined the Buhari administration’s four years’ of environmental stewardship, saying that much needs to be done in the protection of the natural resources through conservation and sustainable practices. They believe that the Federal Government scored major point in the United Nations Environment Programme report and clean up of the…

Bringing new life to used packaging tops our sustainability agenda

The amount of waste littering our planet has rightly received a lot of attention recently. I understand the strength of feeling about...

One-third of the world’s longest rivers remain free-flowing

First ever global assessment of the location and extent of the planet’s remaining free-flowing rivers highlights severe degradation, and offers a method for tracking the status over time.

Air pollution to shorten new born babies lives by 20 months

Exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution could, on average shorten the life of a child born today by 20 months, according to a new global study, State of Global Air 2019 (SoGA2019).

Nigeria’s remaining forest threatened as FG plans new policy

Following recent invasion of Cross River state’s reserved and other areas by unknown timber merchants, a greater part of Nigeria’s remaining...

New global rules curb unrestricted plastic waste exports

Amid Nigeria’s house of representatives bill to ban the use and sale of plastic bags, governments at the 14th Conference of the Parties...

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