Environment

By Eyo Nsima Today, the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) themed ‘Delivering for People and the Planet’  kicks off in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. The event will host more than 45,000 registered COP27 participants representing Parties, the United Nations (UN), regional non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, businesses, the scientific community, local communities as well as civil […]

African women and men have set the pace for environmentally responsible and inclusive conservation of aquatic biodiversity. To validate important concerns and strategies to enhance women’s engagement in aquatic biodiversity and environmental management, the inaugural gender expert meeting on ” Gender mainstreaming in aquatic biodiversity conservation and environmental management” was held from October 5-7, 2022,

By Eyo Nsima As the world marks the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, on September 29, 2022, research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, showed that food loss and waste account for 8-10 percent of global greenhouse emissions. The United Nations, UN, that made the disclosure, called for the

The launch of a 17-signature Ministerial Declaration calling for recognition of the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility as an existing Non-Market Approach under the Paris Agreement in New York today could, say ministers, unlock significant additional climate finance for adaptation to the impacts of climate change. The declaration, made by some of the world’s most vulnerable nations to the