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The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, expressed its readiness to collaborate with willing foreign investors to boost the economy of the state.

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Last week, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) released its annual Adaptation Gap Report which revealed that funding developing countries’ need to deal with the present impacts of climate change (adaptation finance) is 50% bigger than previously thought, with estimates of the current adaptation...

Open access notables From our government/NGO reports section, World Weather Attributions latest report Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change:

A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color.

A new rule revives an older set of protections for rivers, marshes and waterways, setting aside changes in the Obama and Trump administrations that led to years of legal wrangling.

In a win for the Biden administration, the United States Postal Service said it would spend nearly $10 billion to create one of the largest electric truck fleets in the nation.

Activists called the funding to help developing countries cope with the impacts of climate change “hugely disappointing.”

John Podesta, the White House aide overseeing new tax credits, said rules were expected to be in place within months. Avoiding waste and fraud is a priority.

But the president stopped short of designating the ecologically and cultural important region, also known as Avi Kwa Ame, as a national monument.