ENVIRONMENT

UN Secretary General, António Guterres, says the current global economic paradigm of infinite growth based on using up a finite number of resources, such as fossil fuels, will only deliver climate chaos. The UN chief said the paradigm of growth based on fossil fuels would also deliver a “permanent triple whammy of inflation’’ and conflict. Guterres was addressing the Major ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court in Yenagoa to hear a N700 billion oil spill compensation suit filed by members of Aghoro I Community in Bayelsa. The people of Aghoro I in Ekeremor Local Government Area (LGA) in Bayelsa dragged the SPDC to Federal High Court Yenagoa over a May 17, ...

Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) and the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), the Lagos State Government agency responsible for planning, implementing, regulating and franchising sustainable integrated public transport in Lagos, have signed memorandum of Understanding (MoU).to produce Electric Vehicles. The MoU consummated on April 28, 2022, establishes a partnership between OCEL and Lagos State in her journey to becoming ...

Intermediary cities have played a huge role in the actualisation of global development. In recognition of this position, the European Union (EU) has a decision-making associate body where the entire local authorities under the union come together and give their opinion on policies to make sure that whatever is decided is beneficial and makes sense to the local people. More ...

Every year, on June 5, the world commemorates World Environment Day (WED) to celebrate and promote environmental awareness and sustainability across the globe. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and held annually since 1974, each edition focuses on raising awareness and mobilizing the world to take positive action to protect nature and our planet. The theme for this ...

As part of the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network’s (EJN’s) first wholly remote fellowship opportunity, 10 fellows from across the African continent spent two weeks virtually reporting on the events of the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The UNCCD COP15 was a key gathering ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on Oil and Gas companies in the country to sensitise host communities and stakeholders on the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act. Okowa said that such sensitisation would help to strengthen ties between host communities, oil companies and other stakeholders to boost oil production in the country. He stated this in his ...

The Rural Electrification Agency with funding support from the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Programme has kicked off a five-year rural electrification project. Tagged, ‘Derisking Sustainable Off-grid Lighting Solution in Nigeria’, direct beneficiaries of the $2.9 million project are estimated at 96,380 persons out of which 47,540 are expected to be women. At the official launch of ...

A Lagos-based group of civil society advocates and environmental activists, HEDA Resource Centre, has called on the Lagos State Government to support a just energy transition in Nigeria by endorsing the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. In a letter addressed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the organisation urged the government to seize the momentum of the global shift to ...

Savannah Energy plc, the British independent energy company,has announced the signing of an agreement with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of the Republic of Chad for the development of up to 500 megawatts of renewable energy projects. The projects will supply electricity to the Doba Oil Project and the towns of Moundou and Doba in Southern Chad, and the ...