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Original post on The Guardian  The German Government has provided a total of €22million to Nigeria, to address energy and climate change issues in the country. The German Ambassador to Nigeria, Bernhard Schlagheck, who disclosed this recently in an interview with The Guardian in Abuja, said the support, which is under the auspices of the Nigerian […]

Original post on The National, UAE Representatives from more than 150 countries are gathered in the capital, as the first day of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week saw millions of dollars made available for new solar projects in Africa. Summit Mauritius and Rwanda have been awarded a combined US$25 million in concessional loans by the Abu

Original post on Vanguard  Violence between Fulani herdsmen and farmers is one of Nigeria’s most persistent security problems and has left thousands of people dead in recent decades. The International Crisis Group think-tank has warned it could become “as potentially dangerous as the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast”. Various issues- social and political- contributed

The conversation surrounding the alarming amount of ocean plastic continues to pick up pace, and while we’ve seen efforts to remove and re-purpose that debris, there is more to be done to replace plastic all together. New York-based startup LOLIWARE is looking to stop a big source of that plastic in the first place: single-use straws. The company has built on

Let’s begin 2018 by looking back at what went right for the environment in 2017. Bye bye, diesel Countries such as India, France, and the United Kingdom have pledged to move away from gas and diesel cars in favor of less-polluting options, such as electric vehicles. Even China, the world’s largest car market, is developing a

What sounds like a line from the Book of Revelation is in fact currently happening in Australia. It’s not a sign of the impending Apocalypse (hopefully) but of an extreme heat wave that has gripped the country. The bats in question – gray-headed flying foxes – can weigh as much one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) with a

The atlas presents current and future suitability maps for 54 species that are commonly used as shade in agroforestry systems in Central America. The 54 species that were selected include 24 species of fruit trees, 24 timber trees and six species used to improve soil conditions. The work was made possible through the financial support

BP, like most fossil fuel companies, is responding to the pressure from stakeholders on the effects of fossil fuels on the environment. On the fifteenth of December, BP announced the goal to spend $200 million to acquire a large stake in a Lightsource, a solar power developer based in Britain. Before the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil