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Amina Mohammed says implementing 2030 agenda key to addressing climate change, other global concerns

Original post by Paul Omorogbe for tribuneonline Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J Mohammed, has said that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are key to addressing climate change and other global concerns. She stated this during a recent address to mark the second anniversary of the adoption of the SDGs. The occasion of the second anniversary  […]

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UN Environment Calls for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Realize SDGs

Original post by LEILA MEAD for IISD All relevant stakeholders must work towards preventing and reducing pollution, according to a UN Environment report that emphasizes that pollution is controllable and avoidable if appropriate actions are taken. The report titled, ‘Towards a pollution-free planet,’ calls for, inter alia, ensuring a global pollution compact that prioritizes pollution prevention for everyone.

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Why is world hunger on the rise?

Original post by Cécile Barbière (Translated by Paola Tamma) for Euractiv Ending hunger by 2030, the second of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), is getting further out of reach. After years of progress, the fight against malnutrition, one of the success stories of development assistance, has had a bad year. In 2016, 815 million people, or 11% of

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There’s an unexpected link between boosting car sales in Africa and UN sustainability goals

Original post by Yomi Kazeem for Quartz Africa The automobile market in Africa is projected to double over the next decade as the continent is the world’s second fastest growing market for new vehicles. This is largely thanks to factors such as a growing middle class, rapid urbanization and continued investment in infrastructure. Some of the continent’s

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Fatima Oyiza-Ademoh is October’s Susty Person of the month

Miss Fatima Oyiza Ademoh is an energy and finance specialist with over six years of experience in sustainable energy project development, bio-energy mini-grid, a nexus between energy access and other components of sustainable development goals. Fatima is a lecturer at Baze University and Project Developer for Waste-2- Watt; a renewable energy project converting waste to

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Tropical forests used to protect us from climate change. Now, scientists say, they’re making it worse

Original post by Chris Mooney for The Washington Post  A surprising scientific study released Thursday presents troubling news about the enormous forests of the planet’s tropical midsection — suggesting that they are releasing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon to the atmosphere, rather than storing it in the trunks of trees and other vegetation. The results, published in

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Public announcement!: Nigeria launches the first country level private sector advisory group

Acting  President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo inaugurated the Nigerian Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the 28th of February, 2017. The PSAG’s goals are similar to the United Nations Sustainable Development Fund’s subsidiary group- the Global Private Sector Advisory Group, which was formed as a result of the numerous challenges faced during the implementation of the

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