Tag: climate change

In just over a decade, Nigeria will have some of the highest concentrations of young people in the world. Currently, ...

Secretary-General of the United Nations Secretary, António Guterres, noted that there are hardly gender considerations when policies and decisions are ...

An official says the present administration’s efforts at diversifying the economy is yielding the desired results.

A new report says human-caused climate change causes more damage than nature induced variation.

Sean Melbourne, the head of climate change and energy at the British High Commission in Abuja speaks on Nigeria's struggle ...

Experts, who are alerting the world ahead of the upcoming UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, said wildfires and climate change ...

“Urban noise pollution, wildfires and phenological shifts – the three topics of this Frontiers report – are issues that highlight ...

Picture credit: Nick_ Raille_07/Shutterstock Forty-six years after Murtala, Africa has not come of age. Apart from the crises of under-development, ...

Climate change has impacted Nigeria negatively in the past few decades though not as drastically as in some other parts ...

Despite tense relations on climate issues, Africa’s development requires a convergence of AU–EU energy and green transition plans.

Methane concentrations in the atmosphere raced past 1,900 parts per billion last year, nearly triple preindustrial levels.

...we run around from pillar to post, deceiving ourselves and being led by the nose; hopefully not to our perdition. ...

To prevent infections on newly propagated plants, one farmer rubs fluids from aloe vera plants on the exposed surface of ...

Photo Credit: WFP/Giulio d'Adamo As of 2018 in Nigeria, it was estimated that about 30 per cent to 40 per ...

Despite the pushback from India and China, more than 40 countries...agreed to move away from coal, which is understood to ...

The new climate change law...sends a strong positive message to the world that Nigeria understands the enormity and urgency of ...

To buttress this point, President Buhari continued, that Nigeria "is requesting financing for projects using transition fuels such as gas", ...

Lagos to receive support for the implementation of its climate action plans and priorities.

The world is currently not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

When it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, sub-Saharan Africa is collectively responsible for barely half a per cent of all ...

...the problem is not only about the West dictating the route of development for poor African countries, it is also ...

"In the past six years, our government took very painful but necessary decisions to invest for a long-term prosperous future," ...

"In sub-Saharan Africa, climate change could further lower gross domestic product (GDP) by up to three percent by 2050."

The health advocates noted that the budget seems not to have any specific information or plan to address family planning ...

...while the euphoria that greeted the new climate change pledges is understandable, African governments must set their sight on getting ...