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Africa is at risk of losing a generation of 21st-century workers and job creators. If current trends continue, Africa will be home to one billion young people by 2050 but one-third of them will not be able to complete basic secondary education. For children who are in school, things won’t be much better. While technology […]

26 April 2017: The Paris Agreement recognizes the need to engage with the private sector and stakeholder groups to combat climate change. Almost 18 months after its adoption, the impact of the Paris Agreement is starting to unfold as new partnerships emerge and companies across the economy are increasingly engaging in mitigation action. This update

2 May 2017: To facilitate collaboration among the members of the Group of 20 (G20) in financing the scaling-up of energy efficiency technologies and programs, the G20 Energy Efficiency Task Group (EETFG) has launched the Energy Efficiency Investment Toolkit. The Toolkit provides “a voluntary framework and tools for G20 countries to enhance capital flows for

March 2017: The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) launched its 2017-2020 strategy to provide equitable access to sanitation and hygiene around the world. The strategy seeks to improve menstrual hygiene services and end open defecation, putting in place steps towards achieving target 6.2 under the Sustainable Development Goal 6 on clean water and

The minister of environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, has disclosed that World Bank’s $500million grant to the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) was aimed at tackling gully erosion, flooding and management of watershed across the 19 states of the federation. To this end, he stated that NEWMAP would ensure that the threat of deforestation

Climate change is resulting in loss of lives and livelihoods because of extreme weather events and changing seasons. Working people make up the bulk of those affected, and they are increasingly being displaced from their homes. Also, workers are expected to be on  the front lines of the industrial transformation that is a necessity for

The UN Women, with support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), has launched a new guidebook to help practitioners mainstream gender into climate change projects and programmes. It has been described as a “go-to” publication, which presents methodologies and tools to address the gender gap.                    

A new scientific assessment of climate change in the Arctic, by the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), concludes that the Arctic is shifting – rapidly and in unexpected ways – into a new state. If current trends are allowed to continue, they will have increasingly profound impacts on human health and safety, industries

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ofo, a Beijing-based start-up company that has become the world’s first and largest bike sharing platform, are joining forces to raise public awareness about climate change. L-R: Mr. Li Zekun, Vice President of Marketing, and Mr. Dai Wei, Founder and CEO, with ofo’s bright yellow bikes outside UN