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Yaoyao, an eight-year-old Beijing girl, has been learning how to sort rubbish at school. Back at home she excitedly asks her parents to separate food waste, recyclables, and non-recyclables and to place each in the correct communal bin outside. But the next morning those different bins all get tipped into a single bin lorry – […]

Kano state government has signed three memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with three reputable companies with the aim of providing solar power energy in line with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s administration’s resolve to make Kano a mega city suitable for businesses. The signing of the three memorandums of understanding on the solar power projects was performed

Nobel literature laureate and songsmith Bob Dylan certainly got it right: a hard rain is going to fall. As global temperatures rise, extremes of torrential rain will increase accordingly, with the heaviest rainfall up to 15 percent more intense for every 1°C that the planet warms. If global temperatures increase by 4°C by the end of

Tucked away in a scenic stretch of Australia’s southern coastline and home to about 1.3 million people, Adelaide is, on first glance, a small and unassuming place. But its Lord Mayor, Martin Haese, has some very big dreams for the city. “We want to establish Adelaide as the sustainability capital of the world,” Haese tells

Ahead of the G7 meeting holding May 26 to 27, 2017 in Taormina, Italy, lawmakers from nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are warning that climate change will lead to conflict and mass migration in the Middle East and North Africa, and are pressing governments to stick to their commitments under the 2015

Hong Kong is leaky. Despite being one of the world’s richest cities, it’s annual loss of water from leakage and theft is a whopping 32.5 per cent of total production, or 321 million cubic metres (m3). Such losses are avoidable. For example, Tokyo managed to reduce its freshwater leakage from 20 per cent in 1955

 Frank Bainimarama, Fiji’s Prime Minister and incoming president of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November (COP23), speaking during the 8th Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany The Petersberg Dialogue was a critical path to the historic agreement we all reached in Paris at the end of 2015. After further success in Marrakesh,

Swiss voters have backed government plans to replace the power from ageing nuclear reactors with renewable energy. A total of 58.2 percent of voters supported the phaseout of nuclear energy in a binding referendum on Sunday. Under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters have the final say on major policy issues. The plan will provide

 Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing the world, averages say a wide-ranging report out Monday on the continent’s future. While large portions of the continent’s 1.2 billion people live in poverty, many of Africa’s 54 nations have made significant progress in health, education, and standard of living.