Tag: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The groups condemned the invitation extended to some select Ogoni leaders from the region by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu ...

The activities of sand miners in Kano have been a source of concern for farmers and environmentalists in the affected ...

More than eight out of ten parties to UNFCCC have adaptation planning instruments in place.

...there is nothing normal or natural about the blazes we are seeing raging across Europe, North America and other parts ...

Strategic recognition for sand and actions across sectors needed, report urges.

Picture credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/BBC ... the skies of Rivers State are often covered with thick dark clouds, and soot ...

An expert argued that there is a need to debunk myths about dryland regions across the world.

One expert says the biggest driver of land degradation in the continent from the agriculture perspective is "tillage".

The Nigerian government has since 2016 been making repeated promises to end the importation of dirty fuels.

UNEP said the funding would help strengthen climate resilience, restore degraded land, create green jobs, and protect biodiversity in Africa.

Nigeria has made several promises to ensure its fuel contain low sulphur, but its petrol and kerosene have sulphur over ...

Inger Andersen, UNEP’s Executive Director, says ''The year 2020 is on course to be one of the warmest on record, ...

Nigeria ranks below the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.

Since her appointment at the UN plum job, Amina Mohammed’s successors have laboured in vain to match her record.

The overwhelming joy and excitement that envelope the Ogoni nation during the flag-off of the Ogoni clean-up can be restored.

The report also said forests provide more than 86 million 'green jobs'.

Two years after the release of funds, not a single site out of the sixty-five contaminated sites marked for clean-up ...

The federal government says some changes that would be made in the Ogoni clean-up project include procurement and timelines for ...

Ogoni area in Rivers State has over the years been destroyed by oil spills leading to the destruction of surrounding ...

The leaders are dissatisfied with the level of implementation of the cleanup.

He said the state has to apologise to the victims and to the Ogoni people for the execution.

“The exercise will be carried out in the four local government areas that make up Ogoniland."“The exercise will be carried ...