The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has advocated for the use of climate-smart solutions and precision agriculture to increase productivity and mitigate food instability.
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Women Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE), an NGO for women and youth groups, has educated women in Kaduna on financial literacy and leveraging on climate challenges to boost green entrepreneurship.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Japan has started discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Pacific Ocean, 12 years on from the major meltdown.
The National President of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Engineer Elizabeth Eterigho, in this exclusive interview with ASHENEWS’ Tina George, raises concerns over the status of water scarcity and the prevalence of open defecation in Niger state. She also looks into its impact on the female gender, while proffering solutions on how these could be addressed. Excerpts:
A coalition has been launched under the auspices of the Media and Civil Society Climate Action Coalition (M&CCAC) to promote advocacy efforts and eliminate barriers to effective, long-term climate change mitigation.
Protestors specifically targeted the China-backed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), and its associated oil drilling sites, in Uganda and Tanzania. The protest also targeted China’s involvement in the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone in South Africa, the Hwange coal-related projects in Zimbabwe, and the Cabo Delgado gas projects in Mozambique. These projects are said to be incompatible with China’s climate action and cooperation pledges to global south countries.
Experts have expressed worries that the agendas of the forthcoming Africa Climate is built on false solutions, rather than being pro-people.
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, an expert in climate change and development, has trained over 30 youths in Enugu State on urban spaces greening and climate advocacy.
The summer’s heatwaves have been so blistering they have inspired their own names. In Europe they have been called nightmarish figures from Greek mythology, but one meteorologist in the US has taken a more pointed approach – by naming the country’s heatwaves after the oil and gas companies that have worsened the climate crisis.
Climate change experts have advocated a total ban on the production of single use plastics to mitigate the effect of climate change.