By EricJames Ochigbo
Abuja, Feb. 17, 2021 The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva says Nigeria is on course to end gas flaring by 2025.
Sylva made this known on Monday at a Public Hearing on gas flaring organised by the House of Representatives on Monday in Abuja.
The minister said that the public hearing was an opportunity to update the records and to bring stakeholders up to speed.
He said that elimination of gas flaring was an issue the ministry was taking seriously, saying that the ministry was committed to achieving the global consensus on elimination of gas flaring by 2025.
Farmers of the south-central districts of Bangladesh, namely Barishal, Gopalganj, Madaripur, and Pirojpur, have been practicing floating agriculture for decades, if not centuries. But over the last two decades, this indigenous, wetland-based agrosystem has turned into something of a "climate celebrity". During monsoon months, floating beds are traditionally made with compactly
DIMMING THE SUN: Bill Gates and other Family Office Owners Allocate Capital to Solar Geoengineering
Posted on 02/17/2021
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. There are many attempts and experiments trying to control global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to proposed approaches to cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back to space. Some of these experimental ideas range from sending a giant mirror into space to spraying aerosols in the stratosphere. The two main approaches being researched are stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). Microsoft’s billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of technology that could dim the sun. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) was launched by Harvard University scientists. The goal of the experiment is to examine thi
Locally Led Adaption To Climate Change: The Start of a 10-Year Learning Journey
Our vision for a journey to promote locally led adaptation.
In early 2021, a fast-growing group of experts will meet in Gobeshona to define a 10-year learning agenda to advance principles for critical locally led adaption to climate change. Saleemul Huq and Clare Shakya explain the importance of this group and the journey ahead.
Collectively, the world has failed to respond to the triple crises of poverty, climate and nature at the scale and speed so desperately needed by the poorest communities. Going further and faster on climate action demands a whole-of-society response and requires more, and better quality, support.