By Tshepidi Moremong Climate finance has mostly focused on mitigation measures – new investments that will keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming. But as extreme weather events devastate countries and regions ever more frequently, there must be an equal focus on adaptation and resilience in dealing with the climate crisis that is unfolding…
Attracting international private investment is crucial to closing financing gaps to better respond to countries’ specific needs in climate adaptation and mitigation. © Shutterstock/Michel luiz de Freitas | Policies to curb climate change through foreign direct investment have focused primarily on the renewable energy and electricity sectors. Ahead of the next UN climate change conference (COP27), UNCTAD…
The Utility would make climate transition-related data openly available in a single place for the first time and providing accurate, trusted, and verifiable data – a potential game-changer to enabling the delivery of a net-zero economy. September 21, 2022 – The Climate Data Steering Committee has unveiled recommendations on the design of a new open-data utility,…
The Sahel is one of the poorest and most environmentally degraded regions of our planet. It is also considered one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change, as temperatures there increase one and a half times faster than in the rest of the world. This vulnerability is made worse by the region’s high…
NNN: Stakeholders in the environment sector on Tuesday in Abuja, sought a credible decarbonisation pathway for Nigeria. They made the call at the inauguration of the Carbon Chamber Project (CCB), a conference organised by the National Chamber Policy Centre of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that…
The leaders of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has agreed on a regional strategy to deal with global warming over the next 10 years. Members of the regional organisation, in agreement with the European Union, plan to spend $294 billion (€278 billion) over the next 10 years to meet the challenges of climate…
ISpeech by Federal Foreign Ministe Annalena Baerbock at Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey I’ve just come from Mali, with a group of German members of parliament. We met many very impressive people there – above all, many courageous women. There were three visiting the MINUSMA camp yesterday, an agriculture expert, an artist and a teacher. Different though…
Nigeria has called for greater collaboration among Africans to effectively confront challenges such as climate change, public health, local vaccine production, among others. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said that President Muhammadu Buhari made the call on Wednesday in Abuja….
A Nigerian environmentalist, Mr Desmond Majekodunmi has urged the Federal government to treat Climate Change as an emergency following the continuous destruction of nation’s forests. “Nigeria has destroyed more forest than any other country has done “ he noted. His reaction came as President Muhammadu Buhari last week signed into law the Climate Change Bill Passed…
