Environment
30 May 2016
“Countries with different levels of development and from different regions and often differing views on many issues, found a common vision in Paris.
30 May 2016
In Delta State, for example, there are no prescribed processes and procedures because the urban and regional planning law is being ignored and not implemented.
23 May 2016
After the nomination by the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, the General Assembly has elected Erik Solheim of Norway as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme ...
23 May 2016
Following the signing of the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement in New York on April 22, governments including Nigeria have pledged to take concerted action to lower the costs ...
23 May 2016
As UN Climate Change Conference kicked off yesterday in Bonn, Germany, climate scientists have declared April 2016 the hottest April on record globally ...
23 May 2016
The environmental change sweeping the world is occurring at a faster pace than previously thought, making it imperative that governments act now to reverse the damage ...
16 May 2016
Few weeks after after 176 countries met to endorse the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement, another round of UN climate negotiations will get underway today with governments looking to the next steps needed....
16 May 2016
The cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries could rise to between $280 and $500 billion per year by 2050, a figure that is four to five times greater than previous estimates, according to a new United Nations ...
9 May 2016
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended the federal government for dragging Shell Nigeria to court over Bonga oil spill.
9 May 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has challenged countries to concrete action to actualize their commitments, saying “it is time to take climate action to the next level.”
9 May 2016
“The truck is the first of its kind in Nigeria, just a year old. It is a truck for all needs,” Mrs. Folashade Omotosho Head, Corporate Services of Globetech Remedial Nigeria Limited enthused.
2 May 2016
Twelve months after the Response Planning Development Committee on Outbreak of Lead Poisoning in Niger State submitted its report, a non-governmental organisation...