It is 9.11 am on Monday morning, and Abubakar Bandar, a local farmer in Lugga village of Dange Shuni local government area of Sokoto state, is already harvesting his farm produce on his farmland located near Rudu Village.
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Some stakeholders have emphasised on the need for Africa to tackle debt issues to enable the continent fix its increasing climate issues.
The Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) Abuja, an agency of the Catholic Church, has distributed additional 10,000 economic tree seedlings in Abuja and environs to cushion the effect of climate change.
The Minister of State for Environment, Kunle Salako, says the courageous decision by Bola Tinubu’s administration to remove fuel subsidy has reduced the country’s consumption rate by about 33 percent.
The CEO of Kenyon International, Dr. Victor Ekpenyong, has advocated a gradual switch to renewable energy sources due to the negligible country’s carbon emission.
The Climate Live Nigeria and Fridays for Future Nigeria, a civil society organisation, has launched a music concert to push for collective action against Climate Change and end to fossil fuels usage in the country.
After two dams in northeastern Libya failed, thousands of people are dead, thousands more are unaccounted for, and tens of thousands are displaced in the city of Derna and surrounding towns. The dams along the Wadi Derna river valley collapsed amid Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean cyclone that dropped up to 16 inches of rain over parts of the North African country in a single 24-hour period this week. The same record-breaking storm also inundated Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey, causing devastating flooding across the region of those nations before making landfall in Libya.
A Yola-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), called Eco Clean initiative, has called on government at various levels to henceforth begin to make substantial budgetary allocations towards promoting climate adaptation finance.
Countries around the world are still far from being on the right track to limit climate change, making it harder for the United Nations to achieve its development goal.
ASHENEWS reports that every five days, rapid urbanisation takes place worldwide as the world adds buildings equivalent to the size of Paris.