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Climate Policy: Expert hails contributions of Nigerian academics

Gbemi Banks — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:07:19 +0000

Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, an expert in Climate Change and Development, has hailed the contributions of Nigerian academics in shaping the country’s long term climate strategy. Okereke disclosed this in an interview in Lagos during the stakeholder consultation on Nigeria’s Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). He said that for the first time in the history […]

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WHO expert calls for speedy response to climate change

Gbemi Banks — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 09:35:26 +0000

Hans Kluge, the regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO), says the current response to climate change is “dangerously inconsistent and far too slow.’’ “Climate change and the crises it has triggered have long been clear health emergencies. “WHO and its partners have long sounded the alarm,’’ Kluge said, urging participants of […]

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Averting flood disaster through early warning signs

Gbemi Banks — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:54:24 +0000

Over the last two decades, advancement in science and technology has made meteorological forecast increasingly accurate. All over the world, policy makers utilize the vast meteorological knowledge, as well as precise and other dependable weather tools, to warn about impending adverse weather days, weeks and months ahead. Whether it is a heat wave, hurricane or […]

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Climate Change: NGO advocates increased budgetary allocation in Nasarawa

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:29:23 +0000

A non-governmental organization –The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) — has advocated increased budgetary allocation to the relevant ministries and agencies to tackle climate change in Nassarawa State. Mr David Michael, Executive Director of GIFSEP, said this at the training of 35 communities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on climate activists […]

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Obama, EU, others kick as Trump withdraws U.S. from Paris Climate Accord; President says ‘I was elected to represent citizens of Pittsburgh, not citizens of Paris’

Freedom Reporter — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:07:06 +0000

For withdrawing the United States (U.S.) from the Paris agreement on climate change, President Donald Trump received a hard knock from his predecessor, Barack Obama, on Thursday. Trump announced the withdrawal at a White House Rose Garden speech. While criticising the move, Obama warned that Trump’s action would see the U.S. “reject the future”. “The […]

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