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The United Nations (UN) released a 16 page document on their strategy for Youth Development themed- Working with and for Young people. The 16 page document  detailed  the Role of the UN, it’s Vision, Objectives on the youth strategy, Plans on strengthening the foundations that delivers with and for young people, Priority areas also, Coordination, […]

There is a pressing need for “unprecedented” collective  actions to be taken by all countries to drastically reduce their carbon emissions over the next decade to save the world according to a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental  Panel on climate change(IPCC) released on Monday, 8th of October, 2018. The report warns  that we have

This originally appeared on Concise News President Muhammadu Buhari has identified climate change as one of the reasons Nigerian youths embark on illegal migration to Europe. The President listed other causes of illegal migration from developing to developed countries to include lack of security, education and healthcare among others. According to a statement on Friday by his

For years we were made to believe that climate change was not going to affect us anytime soon. Sadly, this is not the case, this summer several countries around the world faced surging temperatures, flash floods, and many other freakish weather events. National Geographic had a cover that asked if we lived in a planet

Original post on Tributeonline.ng The Federal Government, on Monday, challenged the National Steering Committee on Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) on Climate Change to come out with practicable solutions that would combat the challenges of desert and coastal encroachment in the country. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu stated this in Abuja, while declaring

Post originally appeared on abcnews An international meeting in Bangkok fell short of its aim of completing fruitful preparations to help an agreement be reached in December on guidelines for implementing the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. The six-day meeting, which ended on Sunday, was scheduled to step up progress in the battle against rising global

Original version of this post appeared on DW Over the weekend, over 1000 rallies were held in countries around the world, all calling for more active climate action. The protests, which were organised as part of the “Rise for Climate” protests, called on governments to end reliance on fossil fuels and move more rapidly toward renewable

Areas like the Niger Delta that have experienced environmental devastation, continue to fall behind global standards due to the lack of investment in remediation and infrastructure. Our friends at Advanced Simplicity developed the Sustainable Community Infrastructure Development (SCID) program to introduce a holistic approach to community development. The UNEP report highlighted some of the social

Originally posted on TimesUnion Scott Martelle’s commentary, “Humans ignore climate change at our own peril,” Aug. 21, was an opinion piece strangely devoid of opinion. Martelle objectively describes some of the major signs of our planet’s distress — increasing temperatures, fires, droughts, hurricanes — and simply notes that such events are liable to become more