ABUJA, August 8 – APRI – Africa Policy Research Institute and the Centre for Climate Change & Development Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Nigeria (CCCD- AEFUNAI), in close collaboration with and support of the Department of Climate Change (DCC), Federal Ministry of Environment Nigeria held a one-day workshop to discuss and share knowledge about Climate …
Save the Children International (SCI) Nigeria has inaugurated a campaign to build the resilience of children and amplify their rights on the adverse effect of climate change. The campaign, tagged “Generation Hope”, is also to galvanise Federal Government’s commitment to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Country Director, SCI Nigeria, Mr Famari Barro, said at …
Nigeria says it is committed to transparent reporting of information on the National Green House Gas (GHG) Inventory, the accounting approaches selected and the indicators used for tracking progress in implementing and achieving it’s Nationally Determined Contributions. Minister of Environment, Barr. Mohammed Abdullahi stated this in his keynote address at a two-day Stakeholders’ Workshop on …
Abuja, Nigeria, December 17, 2022. A delegation from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) led by the Head of Unit, Global Change and Climate Research, BMBF, Dr. Karsten Hess has paid a working visit to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, on January 17, 2023 at the ECOWAS …
Grievance Reporting Mechanism for NAP Nigeria Stakeholder Response and Grievance Redress Mechanism (SRM) for the project “strengthening the capacity to advance the National Adaptation Planning process in Nigeria”. “Strengthening the capacity to advance the National Adaptation Planning process in Nigeria” project aims to be stakeholder responsive and relevant. For any perceived concerns and negative impacts …
Of course, climate pledges aren’t worth the paper they’re written on if they aren’t taken off the page and turned into concrete action. That’s why COP27 was expected to be one of “implementation.” On the opening day of the conference, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called for aligning “every corner of human activity” …
Finance is at the heart of all that the world is doing to combat climate change. Mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, climate technology – all of it requires sufficient funds to function properly and to yield the desired results. On this crucial topic, COP27 created a pathway to align the broader finance flows towards low …
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This new phase of implementation also means a new focus on accountability when it comes to the commitments made by sectors, businesses and institutions. “There is absolutely no point putting ourselves through all that we’ve just gone through if we’re going to participate in an exercise of collective amnesia the moment the cameras move on,” …
The world is in a critical decade for climate action. This is not hyperbole – the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says limiting warming to around 1.5°C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest, and be reduced by 43% by 2030. That’s seven short years from now. However, the world is …
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