Category: Environment
Bill Gates’ 4 Steps to Climate Change Leadership
Climate change is a disaster waiting to happen. Even though many scientists, researchers, governments, and other stakeholders see it as something that would change the way we live, it is however already happening globally.
Safe and Affordable Drinking Water for Everyone in Nigeria
Access to safe and affordable drinking water is a big challenge for many in Nigeria. Many Nigerians, most times have to go to a long distance to get safe drinking water as water supply from the water corporation is not readily available. Most of the readily available water sources are polluted and not safe for […]
Titbits about the Economy and the Environment
The economy and the environment interact in so many ways. Sometimes they benefit each other in several ways. At other times, they are not. The economy is a system with inputs and outputs. Most times, the inputs are from the environment. Also, the outputs from the economic systems go to the environmental system.
Lower-Cost Technologies Can Help to Achieve the SDGs
The SDG targets 6.1 and 6.2 set out the goal of universal access to safely managed water, sanitation, and hygiene services and an end to open defecation by 2030.
Wildfires Don’t Play Nice
You never gonna see it coming One minute, everything is calm The next you are staring at a wildfire Wildfires don’t play nice!
World Water Day 2019: Leaving No One Behind
It’s another year and another United Nation’s World Water Day is upon us. This time, the theme is “Leaving No One Behind“. This is in response to the promise the world made in 2015. A promise of water for all by 2030 specified in the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets. Up till the moment of […]
The World Will Hit the SDG Targets by 2094 NOT 2030
In this talk, Michael Green, an economist, and social progress expert tells us why the world will not hit the SDG targets as planned for 2030 but in 2094. As you may have known, in 2015, the world leaders made a big promise called the Sustainable Development Goals. The promise that everyone will be […]
The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goal 6
The World Bank recently released the 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The atlas is an all-new visual guide to data and development about the SDGs! The Atlas includes more than 180 maps and charts that show progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Nigeria
Developing countries are achieving low-cost emissions reductions through renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) projects and initiatives. The focus of this report is to evaluate the impact of these projects implemented between 2005 and 2016 in terms of measurable greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)’ reductions to help close the emissions gap needed to meet the […]
Nature-based Solutions for Water: World Water Development Report 2018
Tomorrow, March 22nd, 2018 is the 25th anniversary of the World Water Day. A day designated by the United Nations to highlight the importance of freshwater and provide global advocacy for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Redefining the Role of Business and Sport in Combating Climate Change
Can you imagine a world where combating climate change is an exciting and inspiring opportunity, an opportunity to harness the power of the best, to raise the bar, to overcome hurdles and to redefine the role of business and sport in society?
FAO and ITU’s “Hack Against Hunger” Hackathon for #ZeroHunger
The Hack Against Hunger hackathon is part of The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum scheduled to be held from 19-23 March 2018. The forum represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community of which the 2018 WSIS forum will provide a global multi-stakeholder platform for facilitating the implementation […]
