18 April 2017: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) convened a high-level event on financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with support from the UN Environment Programme’s Inquiry into Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System, to “foment a global conversation” on mobilizing the needed resources from a range of sources. Opening the SDG Financing Lab […]
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The United Nations Development Programme on Tuesday released its 2016 Global Human Development Index report, with Nigeria ranked low at 152nd out of the 188 countries surveyed The 2016 Human Development Report focuses on those communities that have been left behind, despite development progress over the last 25 years. It recognises that in most countries,
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The world’s forests already have a lot on their plate: Providing flood protection, drinking water purification, lumber, and recreation, plus habitat for about half the world’s mammals, birds, and insects. Forests absorb a third of the world’s annual carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. And with some assistance from humans, managed forests
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Afghan First Lady Rula Ghani on Tuesday called for the protection of Afghan girls against child marriages. According to her, forced marriages affect the physical health of young girls and robs them of their childhood and future. “Child marriage is a depressing phenomenon for the young generation of Afghanistan and it is a national responsibility
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a voluntary organisation with the mission statement: “We advocate for the value of architecture and give architects the resources they need to do their best work. Our work drives positive change through the power of design.” Political and public relations are a big part of their job, but
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Kevin Butt, Toyota’s regional environmental sustainability director, at a facility that uses methane to generate clean electricity to help run Toyota’s auto plant in central Kentucky. Kevin Butt’s job is to find cleaner ways to power Toyota. One of the hardest places to do that is at the automaker’s sprawling plant in central Kentucky, a
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was determined to hold a Security Council meeting on the importance of human rights to international peace and security and it will happen on Tuesday — but only after the U.S. addressed objections from Russia, China and other council members. Haley told reporters at the start of
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State may have bitten more than he can chew, in his bid to sign into law the New Environment Bill passed recently by the House of Assembly. Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) and other civil society organisations (CSOs) have vowed to mobilise Lagosians to ensure that Governor Ambode
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On Thursday, March 30, 2017, hundreds of climate activists as well as concerned and affected Nigerians joined ongoing actions around the world to press home the need to address the world’s dependence on fossil fuels which, according to them, poisons the planet and threatens to eliminate mankind. According to activists Nnimmo Bassey, Celestine Akpobari, Ken
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In an article published recently in the British Medical Journal, family medicine physician, health policy expert, and Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Dr. Mona Sarfaty, comments on the health implications of the recent White House Executive Order rescinding, revising and reviewing regulatory decisions and authorities of the US Environmental Protection Agency
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