The number of people facing hunger rose to 193 million last year as conflict, climate change and economic crises ravaged people’s livelihoods, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. While experts have warned that Russia’s war in Ukraine could cause famine, the FAO said in an annual report...
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By EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna – In a renewed move to make residents more environment friendly and halt the fast changing climate – largely due to negative human activities – a Kaduna-based outfit, Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), during the week trained Journalists and critical stakeholders on specialized environment reporting;...
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have jointly pledged $200 million toward agriculture, climate resilience and economic development projects in Africa. The pledge was made on Monday through a new strategic partnership (Nanmo) to support smallholder farmers on drylands on the African continent....
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – Women and girls, especially in rural communities, continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis that exacerbates pre-existing inequalities, jeopardizes their food security and feeds instability and migration, warns the United Nations World Food Programme on International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day 2022 focuses...
Around 360 square kilometres of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon were lost to deforestation in January alone. This is the highest amount recorded for January since 2015, the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said on Wednesday, citing provisional figures. Inpe uses satellite imagery for its analysis, using a...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on the international community to support Africa’s efforts in combatting climate change, containing the COVID-19 pandemic, fighting terrorism, as well as curbing poverty. Osinbajo, who raised these concerns on Friday in his virtual address to the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022, said that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – With the glaring threat posed by climate change to the world, groups from anti-corruption agencies, the media, civil society organisations (local and International), community based groups and labour and the academia have called on the media, labour, community based groups and others to strengthen...
Introduction At the beginning of this month November 2021, President Buhari announced at that Nigeria has pledged to eliminate illegal gas flaring (which he said was Nigeria’s single greatest contribution to greenhouse emissions) by 2030. The President made the commitment at the UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow 2021 tagged...
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) has said the current effect of climate change has made agricultural insurance imperative for all farmers in the country. Mr Andrew Uzomah, Branch Manager of NAIC in Enugu State, said this on Thursday in Enugu during the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari’s strong, and activist speech at the opening plenary of the COP-26 climate change summit in Glasgow was not just about the regurgitation of Nigeria’s commitment to climate change but an important message to the rich nations of the world that we...
More than 100 world leaders have promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal. Brazil – where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down – was among the signatories on Tuesday. The pledge includes almost £14bn ($19.2bn) of public...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country, describing the commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary. Bezos joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron,...
Dire warnings of the end of the world are as old as civilization itself. But each year as the countdown to United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) begins, they grow in volume and intensity. Recently, senior United Nations officials raised the alarm of “world conflict and chaos” and mass...