A new partnership launched today by four UN agencies aims to support 30 countries over the next seven years in building national green economy strategies that will generate new jobs and skills, promote clean technologies, and reduce environmental risks and poverty.
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The East African Community and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed a pact that would facilitate the management of the region’s environment and natural resources.
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By Oscarline Onwuemenyi, Crude oil exploration has witnessed an upward growth since the commodity was first discovered in the country in the 1950s. While it has sustained the Nigerian economy, the oil exploration activities have taken its toll on the Nigerian environment. One such consequence of oil exploration is the effect of oil spillage on [...]
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The United Nations welcomes the decision by the Nigerian Government to clean up a major oil contamination in the Ogoniland region of the country. The decision comes a year after the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) presented a scientific assessment of oil pollution in Ogoniland to the Government, underlining serious public health and environmental impacts. “On [...]
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A radio journalist from Nigeria has won the United Nations Environment Programme’s Young Environmental Journalist Award (YEJA), beating over 120 entries from reporters across Africa. Ugochi Anyaka (29) received her award at a special ceremony held during the 12th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. The [...]
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40 years ago in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm history was made at a UN conference on the future of humanity and the planet that would propel Kenya and its capital into the centre of international environmental affairs. Amid rising concern over pollution over the air, the land and the seas; the growing loss [...]
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Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement and patron of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has died in Nairobi. She was 71 years old. Professor Maathai was one of Africa’s foremost environmental campaigners, internationally recognized for her commitment to democracy, human rights and conservation. She founded the Green [...]
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A report by the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) said an annual investment of US$ 198 billion, or 0.16 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), in the water sector could reduce water scarcity and halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in less than four years.
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What does the ‘Doha Climate Gateway’ mean for Africa?
By Richard Munang and Zhen Han A UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the “Doha Climate Gateway.” Its major achievements include the further extension until 2020 of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a work plan for negotiating a [...]
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