Climate Change

The Nigerian government has launched the Deep De-carbonization Project DDP as part of measures to reduce emission of climate change. The DDP Nigeria is a national research and capacity building project for the implementation of a Deep…

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has reiterated the need for developed countries to honour pledges made in 2009 of mobilizing $100 billion annually to support climate…

Rice farmers in Dakasoye settlement of Garun Malam local government area of Kano State have said they recorded bumper harvest despite the shortage of rain in the 2021 season. Speaking with the newmen  at Garun Malam they said this was…

FARMERS in the North–Central and Taraba have narrated different experiences from the effects of irregular rainfall patterns on harvest during the 2021 farming season, as the cropping season rolls to an end. In a survey conducted in the…

A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first-ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.…

The African Development Bank Group has launched its Climate Change and Green Growth Framework at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The framework is the first of its kind by any multilateral development bank. …

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says the delicate balance between reducing emissions, energy affordability and security requires comprehensive and sustainable policies. The OPEC said that focusing on…

Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has announced, on the margins of the ongoing COP26 holding in Glasgow, UK, that his government will plant one million trees to fight desertification. The governor said that the tree planting…

An NGO, Extinction Rebellion (XR), on Saturday, November 6, 2021, led a 5Km walk to sensitise residents of Barnawa community in Kaduna, on the effects of climate change, Gloria Bulus, XR Kaduna Coordinator, has said. Bulus said…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) when releasing the first findings of its new Global Remote Sensing Survey said agricultural expansion drives almost 90 percent of global deforestation – an impact much…