Former Norwegian Minister Erik Solheim Takes Reins at UN Environment Programme

Solheim pledges to tackle major environmental issues such as ocean and air pollution, climate change, and nexus between conflict, migration and the environment

Erik Solheim (Photo - Colombo Telegraph)

 

NAIROBI, Kenya (PAMACC News) - Erik Solheim, a former Minister of Environment and International Development in Norway has began his tenure as Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, with the concurrent position of UN Under-Secretary-General. Mr. Solheim assumes his new role as chief of the global authority on the environment after three years as head of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Vers une meilleure couverture médiatique de l'agriculture et l'alimentation en Afrique sub-saharienne.

Visite de terrain

Par Kanzly MIDEH

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire (PAMACC News) – Une avancée notable dans la stratégie de vulgarisation des problématiques liées à l’agriculture et à l’alimentation en Afrique sub-saharienne. C’est en substance ce que l’on peut retenir de l’atelier de renforcement des capacités organisé par la Banque mondiale et l’Initiative des médias d’Afrique (AMI), à l’intention d’une cinquante de journaliste africains du 13 au 15 juin dernier au Golf Hôtel d’Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire.

Why Water Resources Ministry matters

By Greg Odogwu

ABUJA, Nigeria (PAMACC News) - The government of Nigeria recently midwifed a contract agreement between the River Basin Develop­ment Authorities (RB­DAs) and the Songhai Nigeria Partnership Ltd. to generate 1,200 jobs nationwide in three years.

At the signing cer­emony, the country’s Minister of Water Re­sources, Engr. Sulei­man Adamu said the objective is to strengthen the RBDAs to become major economic nerve centres in line with the economic diversi­fication policy of the change agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

Des animateurs des radios communautaires des régions de Dosso, Niamey et Tillabéry formés sur les changements climatiques

 Par Kané Illa

 Le samedi 18 juin dernier, le Centre de presse de la station régionale de l’ORTN (Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Niger) de Dosso, à 150 kilomètres à l’est de Niamey, a servi de cadre à un atelier de formation des animateurs des radios communautaires des régions de Dosso, Niamey et Tillabéry sur les changements climatiques.

NOTICE: New Schedule for ACCER Awards 2016

2016  ACCER AWARDS REVISED SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

2016 will be a crucial year for the African continent and the climate discourse community. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in an unprecedented diplomatic victory in France in December last year, there has been a lull and atmosphere of “wait-and-see” as the global community focus on the next actions in