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The news on climate change from the Asia Pacific Economic Summit in Singapore has been sobering, mixed and disappointing. It means that expectations as to what can be achieved at the climate meeting in Copenhagen in December have clearly changed. We are told by some that it is too late to reach a legally binding treaty, and that all the world should hope for is some form of political commitment ...
UGANDA'S average temperature will increase by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next 20 years as a result of global warming, according to the State of the Uganda Population Report, released yesterday by finance minister Syda Bbumba.
Africa's largest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, could be losing its famous 'snowy peak' thanks to Climate Change, a new report suggests. Over 85% of the ice cover that once proved a postcard image has deteriorated since the turn of the 20th century.
The Co-ordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) has charged the Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN) to adhere strictly to the Abuja Master Plan while carrying out their activities in order to ensure a world class city status.
HUMANKIND is part of nature. This is what we tend to forget when we engage in acts of destruction such as the devastation of rain forests, the choking of our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and the annihilation of animal and plant species.
THE people of Nanka in Anambra State and other erosion prone areas of the South East may have lost count of how many times the relevant standing committees of the National Assembly and other government agencies had visited them on fact finding mission.
The Mombasa Municipal Council has scooped an environment award for its exemplary tree planting campaigns.
The government is seeking donor assistance for the implementation of Phase two evictions of the Mau Forest.
The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.
EXECUTIVE Director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoN), Mr. Nnimmo Bassey has called on the Federal Government and stakeholders in the oil industry to realise that the time had come for the nation to plan ahead in the event of the country's crude oil resource being exhausted.
Every November 19, the world celebrates the World Toilet Day (WTD) as it is a day set aside to inform governments all over the world of the dangers that the sanitation sector is witnessing.
The Kogi State government has said it will need about N12.8 billion to curb the ecological problems confronting the state.This was disclosed last Thursday by the team leader of Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Mr. Ignatius Ahmodu, in Lokoja, while stating the reason for the presence of the team in the state.
President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has been advised to not only make environmental sustainability as his 8th point agenda, but that our national aspiration should be to conserve and preserve our environment.
CONVICTIONS for environmental crimes fell nearly two thirds in the year to March, thanks to a failure by the National Prosecuting Authority to prioritise such cases, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said yesterday.
Wednesday evening's fundraising in aid of those evicted from the Mau Forest was a major political statement, interpreted as an alliance against Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The tourism sector is seeking sustainable ways of doing business in the face of growing concerns over environmental degradation.
ODM leaders meet on Thursday for talks expected to bring together the feuding camps in the party. The party's National Executive Council is expected to discuss the party's position on the proposed constitution. But the differences between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Agriculture minister William Ruto could cast a dark shadow on the talks.
The National Compliance and Enforcement Report (NCER), which provides an overview of environmental compliance and enforcement activities in the country, is to be released on Wednesday.
IT IS Norway's view that the increase in global mean temperature must be limited to a maximum of 2°C compared with the pre-industrial level. In order to avoid serious damage, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be reduced by 50%-85% by 2050. This is a complex challenge, because the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that global energy demand will almost double by 2030.
There have been numerous articles published on the hazards posed by gases trapped in Lake Kivu. The most recent were published in the New York Times and Science Daily.
The eviction of squatters from the Mau Forest was top on the agenda of the weekly meeting between President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday.
CABINET Minister William Ruto has invited Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to be the guests of honour at a fundraising in aid of the Mau forest evictees.
Relief food sent to Bomet and Bureti districts for Mau Forest evictees has been re-directed to Kuresoi.
South Rift MPs yesterday snubbed a function in Chepalungu by Prime Minister Raila Odinga in protest over the Mau evictions.
One of the major fall-outs of the recent annual retreat of the Senate staged in the serene and beautiful coal city of Enugu was the resolve of the upper legislative chamber to intervene in the horrendous environmental problems posed by erosion menace in the South East of Nigeria.
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