BY BANKOLE BUKUNOLA MONSURAT Astrid Schomaker of Germany has officially taken up her appointment as Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Assuming the role ahead of the…
BY BANKOLE BUKUNOLA MONSURAT The Global Environment Facility’s governing body has approved more than $700 million for nature protection and renewal projects, including support for the Great Green Wall and…
The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) delivered today robust commitments by UN Member States to strengthen financing and institutions to eradicate women’s and girls’…
Tackling emissions of methane now is essential to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. With political momentum building fast…
More than 50 development and implementing organization gathered in-person and virtually in Bonn this month to discuss approaches to support countries in formulating the next round of national climate action…
The sixth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) concluded on Friday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with Member States delivering 15 resolutions aiming to boost multilateral efforts to address the triple planetary…
Burkina Faso is one of the Sahelian countries hardest hit by the effects of climate change, experiencing torrential rains and floods, as well as periods of insufficient rainfall. To help…
BY MARCUS WOLF Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by the University of Maine.…
President Ruto has urged African governments to increase their investments in green opportunities to unlock the continent’s potential. The President called for investment in renewable energy, green industrialization, climate-smart agriculture,…
BY EKHATOR RUTH ENIYE The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) has received CAD 12 million (US$8.9 million) from the Government of Canada to support WFP’s Africa Risk Capacity (ARC)…