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Africa Wins Big: Hosting Key Climate Talks (COP32) for Fairness and Leading Change
13 Dec 2025 11:16 GMT
Ethiopia has secured an extraordinary achievement: winning the right to host COP32 in 2027, the world’s most critical climate summit. This victory came after a fierce competitive process against nations like Nigeria at the recent COP in Brazil, bolstered …
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Climate Action in Nigeria and Africa: Reconciling Economic Growth with Environmental Sustainability
08 Dec 2025 13:39 GMT
Culled From Church Times Nigeria
Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time, demanding swift and coordinated global action to mitigate its harmful effects on the environment, economies, and human lives. For Africa, however, pursuing …
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Steering Global Climate Commitments: Liberia’s Carbon Markets Authority, the Paris Agreement, and Africa’s Climate Injustice
28 Nov 2025 07:54 GMT
Introduction
Climate change is the most urgent multilateral challenge confronting international law in the 21st century. The Paris Agreement (United Nations, 2015) established the first truly universal framework for environmental cooperation, addressing …
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COP30: Ghana demands fair “Just Transition,” rejects uniform carbon taxes under new Carbon Adjustment Mitigation Mechanism
13 Nov 2025 22:55 GMT
Ghana’s negotiators at COP30 are calling for fairness in the global “Just Transition” talks, warning against applying proposed carbon levies and climate-related taxes under the Carbon Adjustment Mitigation Mechanism (CAMM) uniformly across all nations.
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Stakeholders validate national adaptation document to strengthen resilience in Nigeria
23 Oct 2025 08:24 GMT
By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
Environmental stakeholders have validated the National Adaptation Plan( NAP) document, saying it will strengthen climate change resilience in the country.
They affirmed that the
National Adaptation Plan is not merely a policy document …
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Minister Dion George: Carbon Markets Africa Summit 2025
22 Oct 2025 19:48 GMT
Keynote address by Dr Dion George, MP
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Carbon Markets Africa Summit 2025
Distinguished guests,
Esteemed colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We meet today at a defining moment for our continent and our planet …
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West African nations demand climate justice to avert food crisis
29 Jul 2025 08:19 GMT
From Okwe Obi, Abuja
West African nations, led by Nigeria, Ghana and Togo, have amplified calls for climate justice, warning that without urgent global action, the region’s fragile agricultural systems could collapse and trigger a food crisis that will …
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Cost of owning homes in key East African cities
21 Aug 2025 03:31 GMT
In Rwanda, the conservation of environment is a serious issue in which there are no shortcuts and the Country has gone as far as ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on reduction of carbon emissions.[FILE/Standard]
If you are a businessman, a businesswoman, or …
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AfDB Chief: Carbon Market a Poverty Trap for Africa
25 Jul 2025 07:07 GMT
… countries investable and embracing intra-African trade.
Currently, the … and income for many Africans. With the carbon market active … leaders in both the Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris … . “That is why Liberia is undertaking national carbon accounting— …
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What to anticipate in carbon finance in 2026
05 Jan 2026 09:25 GMT
BY DAUDA SULAIMON ABIOLA
Like our yearly ritual to examine what happened and what will happen in carbon finance globally, this year’s thesis and projections focus on a market that has finally been forced to choose between cheap promises and verified impact …