Climate Finance Is Climate Investment
In every sphere of life, Africans are great innovators and entrepreneurs. You only have to step into an African market to see and hear that ingenuity. But every entrepreneur needs investment, and...
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Global Youth Call For Intensifying Environmental Protection Education
World youth have been called upon to take active part in educating the world to protect the environment to prevent the devastating effects of climate change. Hakima El Haite, COP22 Special Envoy and...
Media Urged To Help Protect The Environment
Media professionals have been urged to carry out their professional duty with diligence and circumspection in their reportage on environmental protection and the fight against climate change....
Trump’s Win Raises Concern At UN Climate Conference
This year’s U. N. climate change conference may not be as impassioned as last year’s in Paris, where more than 100 heads of states attended to ensure that a sweeping agreement was sealed, but the...
Integrity, Fairness Remain Major Principles of COP22
The integrity and fairness should remain the major principles of the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22), a senior Chinese official said on Monday. A shuttle bus at the venue of the conference has the...
Paris Agreement Opens New Channels To Global Climate Governance
With the official enforcement of Paris Agreement on Climate Change, every country in the world now faces a test to fulfill their promises in implementing the tasks, the People’s Daily said in an...
Tis Time For Africas Voice
There’s an African proverb which goes: “If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost.” Between November 7 and 18, over 195 countries and parties of United Nations Framework...
Ghana To Ban Charcoal Production
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in talks with government to ban the production and sale of charcoal in Ghana. This according to the EPA will help Ghana reduce the emission of carbon...
Ghana Gets $24m To Restore Degraded Forests
Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation. This project is...
Climate Change Dominates Opening Of 71st Session Of The United Nations General Assembly
New York, September 20, 2016: The United Nations General Assembly kicked off yesterday, September 20 in New York City. Over 140 Heads of State were expected to attend in a yearly tradition of...
Climate Change To Copy Tobacco Control Tactics
Just like climate change, tobacco kills many people every year. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is making sure that “the tobacco industry...
We Won’t Introduce New Allowances – Fair Wages Commission
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has said it has no intention of introducing new allowances for public sector workers. According to the Commission, ever since government began...
US and China Formally Join Pact
The US and China - together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions - have both formally joined the Paris global climate agreement. After arriving with other leaders of G20 nations for a...
US and China Announce Ratification
The US and China - together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions - have now both ratified the Paris global climate agreement. After arriving with other leaders of G20 nations for a...
China Ratifies Paris Climate Agreement
Gases from thermal plants seen released into the atmosphere China's top legislature has ratified the Paris global climate agreement, state news agency Xinhua reports. The country is the world's...
Morocco Hosts First Consultative Meeting On the Road To COP 22
High ranking officials from the Maghreb region are convening in Rabat for a three days’ workshop, jointly organized by the Government of Morocco, Union of Maghreb Countries (UMA), with the support...
Pope Francis in Africa: Leadership and Inspiration in the Face of Climate Change
A visit by Pope Francis to the UN Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi as part of his Africa tour will come only days before the beginning of the seminal COP21 climate conference in Paris....