Accelerating SDG7 and a clean energy transition can counter bleak climate future predicted in IPCC report
Climate change mitigation and universal energy access are two global challenges that are inextricably linked.
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Despite climate change, AfCFTA offers economic opportunities —Osinbajo
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?
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
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
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
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
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…