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12 Feb
The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal has called for collaboration among stakeholders to address climate change and reclaim land lost to desertification in the northern parts of the country.
12 Feb
The International Centre for Environmental Health and Development (ICEHD) has called on policy makers and all stakeholders to decisively influence policy reform to mainstream gender in agricultural budgeting and financial inclusion, to achieve sustainable climate justice for women farmers in Nigeria.
11 Feb
Around this time every year, Moroccan wheat farmer Abderrahim Mohafid is usually preparing for his spring harvest, but this year his fields lay unusually bare.
8 Feb
COMMEMORATING the World Education Day, Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) has canvassed education as an indispensable tool to navigate and mitigate the complexities of climate change. The bank made the call in Abuja during a programme with the theme, ‘The Impact of Equation: Educational Resilience in the Face of Climate Change’, in collaboration with Womenovate,…
5 Feb
The Federal Government has assured residents in the oil-polluted Niger Delta that its mangrove restoration programme will tackle climate change in the region.
4 Feb
A constant question I have received as a youth activist falls along the lines of “What is all this craze about environmental conservation, Net-Zero goals, and the color green? It doesn’t affect my life so why should I care?” But look at our streets, clogged with plastic bags and styrofoam remnants, breeding grounds for disease…
2 Feb
Fourth, prioritise water resource management. As the Nigerian population continues to grow from its current 200M base and as agriculture and industry becomes more intensive, the demand for water will increase dramatically.
1 Feb
Women collectives have called on the federal government to streamline issues of gender and climate change resilience in its agriculture policies for accelerated economic development in the sector, nutrition and enhanced food security.
1 Feb
The 2015 Paris Agreement (COP21) goal is to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 Celsius above pre-industrial level and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
31 Jan
I write concerning a matter of utmost national importance and urgency: the impact of climate change on Nigeria and the need for immediate and comprehensive action.
31 Jan
The Director General and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Professor Charles Anosike, has called for collaboration amongst relevant agencies with a view to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Professor Anosike was speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, 31st January, 2024, at the ‘Technical Workshop On Sendai Framework Monitoring And Reporting’, organized…
28 Jan
The Senegalese capital is usually bathed in sunshine but for a fourth consecutive day on Friday the city on the Atlantic coast was shrouded in a pallid cloud.

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