The Federal Government on Monday inaugurated a National Steering Committee for the restructured Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) currently being implemented in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. Inaugurating the committee, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, said that the project would mark an important milestone to kick-start activities towards the effective implementation of the MCRP Lake Chad Region Recovery and Development Project (PROLAC). She said that the PROLAC which is a World Bank Project intended to support recovery and development of the Lake Chad…
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Global warming: Nigeria among countries at risk as temperatures rise
Climate change impacts remain one of the least discussed topics in Nigeria, which has the ability to destroy any little gain in the past and set the country on the path of worse scenario of development. Therefore, government, businesses and individuals in Nigeria need to wake up to the challenges of climate change.
Read MoreNigeria Receives Green Bonds Award
Nigeria on Tuesday, March 20 received the 2018 Green Bonds Award under the category of “New Countries Taking Green Bonds Global” at the Annual Green Bonds Conference in London, UK. The award was received by Ambassador Kabiru Bala, Deputy High Commissioner/Head of Mission, Nigeria High Commission, London. Green Bonds are like regular bonds, but with a slight difference – they can only be used to fund projects that have been identified to have environmental benefits, with their contribution to emissions reduction clearly articulated. “The issuance of a green bond by…
Read MoreStudies worry: Is Greenland on thin ice?
Two studies in Nature open deep history of Greenland ice sheet — and raise new questions about its stability The ice sheet covering Greenland is four times bigger than California — and holds enough water to raise global sea-level more than twenty feet if most of it were to melt. Today, sea levels are rising and the melting of Greenland is a major contributor. Understanding how fast this melting might proceed is a pressing question for policymakers and coastal communities. To make predictions about the future of the ice sheet,…
Read MoreOops! Hopes for climate linkage to mosquito population increase dashed by new study
Mosquito population has increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades in New York, New Jersey, and California, according to long-term datasets from mosquito monitoring programs. The number of mosquito species in these areas increased two- to four-fold in the same period. A new study finds the main drivers of these changes were the gradual waning of DDT concentrations in the environment and increased urbanization. The findings were published December 6 in Nature Communications. The potential effects of climate change on the spread of insect-borne diseases is a major…
Read MoreThe Politicization of Climate Science Is NOT a Recent Phenomenon — Watts Up With That?
There’s lots of yacking around the blogosphere and mainstream media about President-elect Donald Trump politicizing climate science. But it’s nothing new. Climate science became a tool for pushing political agendas almost 3 decades ago. In 1988, the United Nations, a political body, founded the global-warming-report-writing entity called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was created to support political agendas. And in 1995, politics corrupted climate science, when politicians changed the language of the IPCC’s second assessment report, eliminating the scientists’ statements of uncertainties. To this day, the…
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