Threatening The Health Of Nigerians
In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that climate change is impacting on the health of Nigerians, suggesting that the authorities have to put the right measures in place to handle its effects...
Tag: Global warming
Year 2016 On Track To Be Hottest On Record – WMO
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that the year of 2016 is on track to be the hottest on record, said UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq on Monday. Preliminary data show that global...
WMO Certain 2016 Will Be The Worlds Warmest Year
2016 looks poised to be the warmest year on record globally, according to preliminary data. With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90% certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by...
China Reiterates Commitment To Climate Change
Chinese officials have reaffirmed the country’s determination to continue working on climate change despite climate skeptic Donald Trump’s win in the U. S. presidential election. The U. S....
Climate Action Is More Urgent Than Ever And We Know What To Do
In the past few months, it seems we’ve made great leaps in the race to curb global warming. In early October, 191 countries signed the world’s first agreement to curb greenhouse gas pollution...
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...
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....
Sustainable Agriculture Deserves Center Stage In Marrakech
By José Graziano da Silva Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, is the sector most threatened by climate change....
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...
Agric Has Big Role In Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today in a new report. Agriculture,...
African Farmers Need Transformative Adaptation To Climate Change
Many African smallholder farmers and farm communities are oblivious to the fact that they are experiencing low crop and animal yields partly due to climate change. In countries like Ghana, many are...
A Nonviolent Strategy To End The Climate Catastrophe
As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see 'The...
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...
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...
The Pearl of Africa Appalling
Uganda was once named “the pearl of Africa” by Sir Winston Churchill. She was endowed with beautiful environment comprised of rainforests, woodlands and various species of fauna and flora that...
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....
Climate Change Could Force 100M into Poverty by 2030, World Bank Group Report Says
There could be more than 100 million additional people living in extreme poverty by 2030 if the international community does not undertake rapid, inclusive and climate-smart development, a World Bank...