Hassan urged the delegates to be on guard to safeguard the body from taking an international decision that will negatively affect the nation’s source of livelihood and development
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A statement obtained by PANA in New York on Sunday from the US State Department said the mission would serve as an important opportunity to discuss implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
“Now that we can test water more cheaply and efficiently than we were able to do when the MDGs were set, we are coming to terms with the magnitude of the challenge facing the world when it comes to clean water,” said Sanjay Wijeserkera, head of UNICEF’s global water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. “With the new Sustainable Development Goals calling for ‘safe’ water for everyone, we’re not starting from where the MDGs left off; it is a whole new ball game
Klein also criticized Clinton’s ties to big money donors. “The logic of her candidacy was because she had so much money […] which is why she is unbeatable,” she said. “But the irony is, it’s where that money comes from and the entanglement of the Clinton Foundation with so many corporations and so many governments, that is what makes her vulnerable
The CHOGM meeting in Malta is the first time President Buhari would attend a Commonwealth Heads of States meeting. In fact, the meeting took place at an auspicious time, six months into the four year administration of the President
A statement by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said: “The action plan announced by the Federal Government represents a fair and meaningful contribution to address climate change and equally reaffirms President Buhari’s commitment to an economic transformation which places inclusive, green growth as key priority for this administration
Mother Nature has “slated a number of places to significantly shrink or disappear from the earth entirely by 2100 due to climate change, changing soil and sea levels, natural disasters and economic problems.” Some of these cities are Timbuktu-Mali, Banjul-The Gambia, Venice-Italy, and San Francisco-USA
These contributions, he said, would go a long way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide
Chonoko said the impact of climate change was on the increase worldwide and stressed the need for the development of emergency evacuation and mass shelter plans in communities that are prone to flood disasters
According to the Department for International Development, the Niger Delta stands to lose over 15,000km2 (75 per cent) of land by the year 2050, with just a one meter rise in sea levels! In real terms this means that at least 80% of the people of the region will be displaced due to the low-lying level of the land and its contiguity with the sea
Tamminen, the Strategic Advisor to the Founding Chairman of the R-20 group, Arnold Schwarzenegger, said that the Uduaghan administration had put in place concrete action plan in pursuit of its green economy policy
Governor Uduaghan, who acknowledged that putting up proper legal structures would ensure that government would be properly guided to continue with efforts to make the environment friendly, explained that the law was geared at providing a legal structure necessary for the state and its people to key into the Green Economy Initiatives of international agencies