Climate Change

Stakeholders in Nigeria's Labour sector have identified the creation, transition and implementation of green jobs as a means of balancing the unemployment challenge as well as countering the effects of the ongoing global climate change…

The European Union will attempt on Monday to harmonize its position for this year's U.N. climate talks, including the contentious topic of financial compensation for the damage climate change is inflicting on the world's poorest.

About five million (5,000,000) people in 19 countries across West and Central Africa have been hit by above-average and devastating flooding, claiming hundreds of lives, upending livelihoods, displacing tens of…

The African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) has presented a Climate Risk Register to the Nasarawa State Government in North-Central Nigeria. Mr. Joseph Ibrahim, the African Activists for Climate Justice…

The Anambra State Erosion and Watershed Climate Change Agency (ANSEWCCA) is seeking partnership with the Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) to strengthen the fight against environmental…

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Executive Committee has approved the participation of the FCT in the Agro-Climate Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape (ACReSAL) project of the World Bank. This decision was…

A new World Bank Group report has recommended countries in the Sahel region to accelerate growth and prioritise climate adaptation to alleviate poverty and address food insecurity. The newly released Country Climate and…

A Ghanaian-based Media Foundation for West Africa, (MFWA) is commencing a regional Climate Change journalism fellowship programme for young enterprising journalists in the region. This is following the global climate change crisis…

The United States Government on Tuesday signed various agreements with the Federal Ministry of Environment, Petroleum Resources, and Agriculture and Rural Development on measures to mitigate the crisis posed by climate change in Nigeria and…

By Gloria Thomas, Abuja Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, says climate change is real and that the flooding that has followed torrential downpours in towns and villages in Nigeria - like other places around…