ngrclimatereports February 2nd, 2010
Mr John Odey
Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, has called on traditional rulers and district heads in the country to take active part in the preservation of the environment as the livelihood of their communities depended on it.
The most crucial environmental challenges in the country, and therefore their solutions, lie in the villages and rural communities, he added.
The minister made the call in Gashua at the weekend when he inaugurated projects under the North East Zone Arid Development Programme in Yobe State. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports January 20th, 2010
United Nations
January 20, 2010, Bonn – Addressing the media today for the first time since last month’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Yvo de Boer said the fact that Copenhagen did not deliver the full agreement the world needs to address climate change “just makes the task more urgent.”
Three key things that Copenhagen produced are: 1) It raised climate change to the highest level of government; 2) The Copenhagen Accord reflects a political consensus on the long-term, global response to climate change; 3) The negotiations brought an almost full set of decisions to implement rapid climate action near to completion. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports December 21st, 2009
Ban ki-moon
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the weekend welcomed the deal which world leaders reached on climate change at a United Nations summit in Copenhagen and called it an “essential beginning” that points the way forward on all key fronts. He however added that work should immediately focus on making the deal a legally binding treaty. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports December 15th, 2009
Africa
By: Akin Adesina
(Op-Ed)
For hundreds of millions of people in Africa, climate change is not about lowering smoke stack emissions or turning off electric lights. It is about whether or not they will have enough to eat.
Agriculture is Africa’s main connection to climate change. This fact must inform the global climate change pact now being hammered out in Copenhagen, if that pact is to address the needs and realize the potential of the world’s second-most populous continent. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports December 7th, 2009
COP15 Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN (AFP) December 7, 2009 – A landmark conference on tackling climate change opened in Copenhagen on Monday to warnings of apocalyptic danger for mankind if world leaders failed to seize the moment.
The impact on humanity of man-made drought, flood, storms and rising seas were spelt out at the start of the 12-day meeting, which will climax with a summit attended by more than 110 heads of state or government.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen warned the world was looking to Copenhagen to safeguard the generations of tomorrow. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports October 8th, 2009
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United Nations
Norway enjoys the world’s highest quality of life, while Niger suffers the lowest, a United Nations agency said Monday, as it released a ranking that highlights the wide disparities in well-being between rich and poor countries.
Canada was listed fourth, well ahead of the United States which was in 13th place, according to Associated Press and Canadian Press. Afghanistan and Sierra Leone rounded out the bottom of the ranking.
The annual Human Development Index, unveiled in Bangkok by the UN Development Programme, takes into account life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment and per capita gross domestic product in 182 countries. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports October 8th, 2009
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By: Nirmal Ghosh
Ongoing talks to combat climate change have been bogged down by the lack of clear signals from the United States and a rich-poor divide over who should foot the bill, Korean Herald/The Straits Times/Asia News Network report October 8, 2009.
Amid signs that American lawmakers will not pass major legislation on the issue by the end of the year, many countries have chosen to sit on the fence and not commit to stringent emissions targets.
A bill which would commit Washington to a 20 per cent reduction in emissions on 2005 levels by 2020 is still being debated in the US Senate–and may not even be passed in time for the all-important Copenhagen meet. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports September 28th, 2009
By: Etim Imisim (Abuja)
Experts from ECOWAS member states are meeting today in Abidjan to revalidate an industrial policy for West Africa. Heads of state and government of the sub-region will meet later to adopt the policy.
The three-day meeting is about how to implement the West African Common Industrial Policy (WACIP). A statement from ECOWA said the meeting will move the region towards establishing an economic community. The participants are drawn from regional experts and manufacturers associations of 15 member states.
It will be recalled that ECOWAS held a two-day meeting in Lome, Cotonou, preparatory to Copenhagen in December. Participants at the mid-September meeting adopted a human rights approach to climate change. They noted that ECOWAS citizens have the right to aspire to dignity and a better future. Conflicts arising from the depletion of natural resources were not only threatening this right. Negative impacts of climate change further infringed on it right, especially among displaced persons. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports September 28th, 2009
IFPRI
By: Etim Imisim (Abuja)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is releasing a study Wednesday which will assess the impact of climate change on agriculture. The prognosis covers up to year 2050.
A statement from IFPRI head of communication, Mr. Michael Rubinstein, said the assessment is the most comprehensive of its kind to date. It creates two scenarios for food production in the next forty years. One is with climate change and the other without it. Within that context, the report predicts trends for crop yield, food prices and compares the number of calories which will be available for children in the next forty years, the statement added. Outcomes for key food commodities as well as costs for overcoming the negative effects of climate change are parts of the projections. Continue Reading »
ngrclimatereports September 23rd, 2009
United Nations
(Summit on Climate Change, convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon September 22, to mobilize the political will and vision needed to reach an ambitious, agreed outcome based on science at the UN climate talks December 2009 in Copenhagen. Live updates and guide courtesy www.guardian.co.uk)
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It could be one of the most important UN general assembly meetings for years. Climate change, the Middle East crisis and the global economy are all high on the agenda and many of the key players will be attending including Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Hu Jintao, the first Chinese president to attend the meeting for 40 years.
Ban Ki-moon is due to open the UN’s climate change summit in New York today, with a speech at 2.15pm (9.15am local time), closely followed by Obama and the Chinese president, Hu Jintao.
That’s just for starters. As Suzanne Goldenberg writes, Obama’s schedule today “stacks up as a whirlwind tour of the most urgent global issues”. Continue Reading »
