Transport sector must accelerate shift to low carbon
Post Views: 1,092 Current and foreseeable policies to mitigate carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions from global transport activity will not suffice to
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Clean-fuel cookstoves may improve cardiovascular health in pregnant women-Study
Post Views: 1,035 A new study conducted by a Chicago, United States based Nigerian medical doctor and his colleagues has
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Mercury: UN to hold first COP on Minamata Convention in Sept.2017
Post Views: 1,345 Three years and two months after the global community adopted the Minamata Convention on mercury, a global
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Nigeria, four others ban Europe’s dirty fuel imports
Post Views: 1,233 Five West African countries namely Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have agreed to ban importation
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Scientists, laureates urge Nobel Prize to divest from fossil fuels
Post Views: 1,125 Nobel Prize winners and scientists have urged the Nobel Foundation to divest its $420 million endowment from
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Scientists urge India to back plan to address pollution crisis as New Delhi chokes
Post Views: 1,142 Scientists and air pollution experts are calling for Indian government officials to back a ten-point plan to
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Group raises alarm over tobacco epidemic as parties meet
Post Views: 1,138 As the seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) kicks
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Toxic air threatens two billion children worldwide-UNICEF
Post Views: 1,097 A new report released today in New York by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed
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Ships get 2020 date to comply with low sulphur fuel oil requirement
Post Views: 1,124 The decision to implement a global sulphur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) in 2020 was taken by
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Goodbye HFCs, welcome ammonia or carbon dioxide
Post Views: 1,257 With the landmark agreement reached by  nearly 200 countries on Saturday in Kigali, Rwanda to bid the
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