Kenya - African Ministers of the Environment have agreed to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans, policies and strategies after a day-long meeting in Nairobi on Friday. In doing so, they will aim to ...
Lagos, Nigeria - Ministers of Energy from West Africa emerged from their one-day meeting in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, Friday resolved to deal, in concrete manner, with the energy crisis in the sub-region. In a communique, issued from the ECOWAS ...
Accra, Ghana - Developing countries are struggling to get technology that is required to address climate change, an African member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) disclosed here. William Agyemang-Bonsu from Ghana, ...
Lusaka, Zambia - The Africa Progress Panel, chaired by former secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, Thursday issued a detailed response to the announcements and developments at the G-8 summit which was held in Hokkaido, Japan. He said ...
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has touted the renewal of agricultural diversity on crops and livestock, backed by a functional natural support system, as a recipe for the international community's long term solution to global food ...
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has said rich countries should bear the primary responsibility in the fight against climate change, which they have induced. "Industrialised countries must take measures by cutting emissions in their respective ...
What does the future hold for biosphere reserves? What measures must be taken for them to meet the challenges of today? These and rele v ant questions will be the focus of debates at the third World Congress of Biosph e re Reserves which will take ...
Dakar, Senegal - Land deterioration is the biggest obastacle to Africa's efforts to fully attain its potential, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned in a report launched simultaneously Thursday in Dakar and 34 other cities around ...
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