Tag Archives: Deforestation

“Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on government at all levels to prioritise on policies that could effectively and adequately curtail environmental degradation through deforestation.”- This Day Obasanjo said this,in a statement made available to THISDAY, on the sidelines of the meeting of the 11th National Council on Environment (NCE) while receiving delegates from the Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) ...

After the success of its pilot implementation via an innovative, two-track approach consisting of actions by the Federal Government and Cross River State Government, the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD+) may soon be expanded to include three more states in the country. No fewer than eight states of the federation are jostling ...