Energy and Climate Security for Nigeria’s Poor
SEEKING to reduce energy generation’s contribution to emission of greenhouse gases and climate change, stakeholders in the country have been advised to explore opportunities inherent in bankable emissions reduction projects. Read more
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Climate Change, Eziuche Ubani, wants the government to do more towards adverse climate change in the country. He talked with DAKA TERHEMBA in Abuja. Excerpts: HOW would you assess the response of the government to the issues of climate change? Read more
The Partners of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves have scheduled a new date for the Official Launch of the Nigerian Alliance. Read more
I met Vijay Iyer yesterday. Vijay is the World Bank’s Director of Energy and Sustainable Development. He told Honourable Eziuche Ubani and me a funny story. Ubani had asked him what his assessment of the negotiations was. “Are we making progress?” Read more
Yesterday, I attended a side event. For most delegates and NGOs, side events at the climate change negotiations are the main events. This is where countries, inter-governmental organisations, companies and research institutes present latest policies, programmes and ideas on solving the climate problem. Read more
I finally arrived Durban yesterday – at the beginning of the second week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I had spent the last week in Bangalore at an event organised by the International Renewable Energy Agency, the inter-governmental agency for the promotion of renewable energy. Read more
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves met on November 9, 2011 and deliberated on the new security situation in Abuja. Read more
Climate change is fast introducing an alternative pathway to both national and global development. Twenty years ago, an average young man would engage on any available practice to eke out a living, without giving a thought to the impacts of his actions on both the environment and the climate. Read more
On December 9, 2010, the harmonised version of the National Climate Change Commission Bill was forwarded to President Goodluck Jonathan for assent. It was reportedly received on his behalf by his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh. Read more
It was a particularly wet day in Abuja. The rain was heavy and I was driving with my cousin, David. David is a Lagos banker. He told me we were lucky in Abuja. It rains non-stop in Lagos, and the floods last month have cost him a good chunk of money. Read more
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