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SEC advocates for sustainable green investment in financing solar energy

Energy Worth3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

“With the enhanced focus on ESG considerations, much effort is now geared towards preservation of biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, inclusiveness, reduced inequality, human capital and communities’ development, among others. Given the important position of the financial sector in the economy, one can understand why these issues are accorded high priority in the sector and why the sector has begun to consider sustainability in its practices.

Accelerating SDG7 and a clean energy transition can counter bleak climate future predicted in IPCC report

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago07 mins

Climate change mitigation and universal energy access are two global challenges that are inextricably linked.

Despite climate change, AfCFTA offers economic opportunities —Osinbajo

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago07 mins

On the issue of climate change, Prof Osinbajo probed, “how is the African insurance industry preparing for the interesting days ahead?”

Is your project robust to the impacts of climate change and disasters?

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago013 mins

They disrupt critical services, reduce agricultural productivity, and destroy infrastructure and dwellings with increasing frequency. To minimize the effect on people’s wellbeing, these impacts need to be considered and integrated in all investments and projects, regardless of their sector, nature, and financing.

Ensure speedy passage of climate change Bill, Minister appeals to National Assembly

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago05 mins

The Minister of State for Environment, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, on Wednesday appealed to the National Assembly to expedite action on the passing into law the climate change Bill.

Fighting climate change in the world’s poorest countries

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago08 mins

In 2020, swarms of desert locusts descended on northern Kenya in the country’s worst locust infestation in 70 years. They ate crops and threatened the food security of 3 million people. Locusts brought similar devastation to some of the poorest countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, as governments and communities braced for the COVID-19 pandemic.

We can end routine gas flaring by 2030. Here’s how

Energy Worth4 years ago4 years ago09 mins

Developed by the World Bank and launched in 2015 by the UN, World Bank and several governments, along with oil companies and development institutions, the Zero Routine Flaring initiative is designed to end an oil industry practice that has existed since oil production first began more than 150 years ago.

Bertrand Piccard at G7 to push ambitious climate action

Energy Worth6 years ago6 years ago05 mins

The explorer and pilot of Solar Impulse has been selected by the French government as one of the representatives of civil society that will address the G7, calling for brave policies that will turn the tide in the climate crisis. Bertrand Piccard, who has long advocated for more ambitious climate policies thanks to financially profitable…