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The world’s poorest children are at greater risk of trafficking and slavery if the United States goes ahead with its plan to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Wednesday. Last week, US President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign pledge to ditch the landmark accord to tackle global warming. Trump […]

For the past few months, I have been trying to develop a write-up on the comparative analysis of running a generic NGO and running an NGO that has a real sustainable impact on humans. I have finally made up my mind to put thoughts to paper on this discourse. This is a study whose findings

Efforts of the federal government to effectively domesticate and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) got a big boost in Abuja with the United Nations pledging its partnership and support to Nigeria to deliver on the implementation of the SDGs. The pledge was made when the global director of the United Nations SDG action campaign,

President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon announced on Monday, June 5, 2017, in a speech delivered at the United Nations headquarters that his government has created a network of 20 marine protected areas, consisting of nine marine parks and 11 aquatic reserves covering 26% of the nation’s territorial waters. “As I have often argued, we

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said that it has not licensed any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) based products in the country. NAFDAC spokesperson, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Abuja while reacting to speculation that GMO

Imagine sinking into the deepest parts of the Central Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Mexico and Hawaii. Watch as the water turns from clear to blue to dark blue to black. And then continue on for another 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) to the seafloor — roughly the distance from the peak of California’s Mount Whitney to

Circular economy products and services need to be price-competitive with less or non-sustainable products if they are to tip the market in their favour. This was the message of Climate-KIC-backed start-up CocoPallet, a growing Dutch company that offers a sustainable alternative to existing wood and plastic pallets, and one of the speakers at the World

From feeding humans to regulating the climate, water and carbon cycles; housing more than 230,000 known species of marine life, and producing the very air we breathe, oceans are, without question, essential for life on Earth. But they are under more threat than ever. Fish are being caught for food faster than their populations can

The Senate Committee on Gas has decried the loss of over $2.5 billion to gas flaring annually from an estimated two billion standard cubic feet of flared gas, which accounts for about 19 percent of total gas, flared globally. The statistics are the highest in any member nation of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, on Sunday, pledged to support any legislative process to end gas flaring. Mr. Baru made the pledge in Abuja in a statement by Ndu Ughamadu, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division NNPC. The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, had said that