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Experts seek waste management plan in construction sites
To address wastes in construction and demolition sites, experts have called for institution of waste management plan during the course of construction.They stressed that waste management plan is one of the most sustainable management strategies ...
9 Dec  
New UN forestry project to help countries meet climate commitments
9 Dec  
More than two dozen countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America are set to benefit from a UN project to help tackle climate change through better forestry management.
UN-Habitat, ICLEI support 60 cities to meet Paris agreement
9 Dec  
United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT) and Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) are collaborating to support over 60 cities, and eight national governments, to harness the potential of urbanisation to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
CORBON to adopt building information modeling
2 Dec  
To boost professional standards, the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) has concluded plans to adopt Building Information Modeling (BIM) system in the construction industry.
Mixed expectations as nations begin global climate talks
2 Dec  
Signatories to a global pact to curb rising temperatures will today kick-start a two weeks talk in Madrid, Spain central capital to raise overall ambition
Environmentalists seek protection for coastal communities
2 Dec  
To avert the effects of ocean surge, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and other stakeholders have advanced the need to protect the coastal communities of Lagos through the planting of economic trees.
FG flags off central effluent treatment plants in Kano
2 Dec  
Sequel to its bid to regulate the uncontrolled discharge of effluents from tanneries, the Federal Government has begun the construction of three separate effluent treatment plants in Kano State.
Lagosians tasked on environmental sustainability 
25 Nov  
As global temperatures and sea levels are rising and causing devastating floods, Lagosians have been urged to be environmentally responsible.
Borno gets committee to build 500 houses
25 Nov  
Borno State Government has inaugurated a committee to build 500 housing units in Maiduguri. After completion of houses, they will be sold on an Owner Occupier Housing Scheme (OOHS) to address problems of shelter in the state capital.
UNEP, Japan plan landfills mercury emission survey in Nigeria by 2020
25 Nov  
To mitigate air pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Japanese-based environmental consultants are to embark on a mercury survey of landfill facilities in Nigeria by the year 2020.
UKAID, others boost clean energy cooking in South East
25 Nov  
As smoke from firewood kills approximately 93, 300 vulnerable Nigerian women and children every year, a project by Modern Energy Cooking Services-Technology Research Innovation for International Development (MECS-TRIID)
AHCN seeks ways to transform housing agencies
25 Nov  
The Association of Housing Corporations of Nigeria (AHCN) will be training its agencies on how to achieve productivity and profitability in Uyo.
Our grouse against NIESV, by Enitan
25 Nov  
The Trustees of a new body, Society for Professional Valuation (SPV) have reacted to their expulsion by the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV)...