The Daily IIJ

Discussions around the severity of the October 2011 flooding in slum urban communities in Accra, particularly around the area called Sodom and Gomorrah, are controversial. Majority of the media coverage blamed poor drainage and solid waste management systems in the capital as the culprit, while others linked the intensity of the rains to climate change. [...]

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The United Nations has launched a new campaign to engage people around the world in a global conversation on the kind of communities they would like to live in twenty years from now.  The campaign will also promote its major conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) to be held in June next year. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/11/un-forecasts-better-communities-in.html

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and China’s academy of sciences has launched a joint programme designed to promote proper management of ecosystems in developing countries, with a special focus on Africa. The International Ecosystem Management Partnership (IEMP), an initiative of the UNEP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will have the core mandate [...]

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Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Hanny-Sherry Ayittey has argued that since crucial dimensions of environmental quality are not private goods sold in the markets to benefit certain group of people, it should be sustained equitably. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/11/crucial-environmental-dimensions-not.html

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November 6, 2011 By NEWTON SIBANDA LUSAKA, Zambia-DIRECTOR of the African Water Facility at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Sering Jallow says the bank has decided to increase its water sector investments in rural areas because that is key to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). “Until 2003, more than 80 percent of the [...]

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The Norwegian government granted YOUNGO with 214,417 USD and the administrative arrangements have been prepared by the UNFCCC Secretariat which is acting as contact between the Norwegian government and YOUNGO. The Togolese youth-led NGOJeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement (JVE) has been selected as hosting organization of the funds by YOUNGO in accordance with the UNFCCC Secretariat’s [...]

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October 27, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary Abdoulie Janneh says building green economies in Africa will be key to preserving the environment and humanity’s common heritage.

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October 26, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ETHIOPIAN Prime minister Meles Zenawi yesterday opened the African Economic Conference (AEC) in the capital Addis Ababa with a call to developed countries to compensate African countries for the damage to their economies caused by global warming and for the services the continent renders in [...]

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Severe flooding has hit Ghana’s capital city of Accra and its surroundings Wednesday morning following a heavy downpour last night.  Property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have  been destroyed and the number of missing and dead is unreliable. Eight people were reported dead but the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) confirmed only two, as at [...]

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“As we could see from the 2007 floods, such an approach is not only resulting in unnecessary deaths but also puts at risk, decades of development gains, from schools and hospitals being washed away to the destruction of entire road networks,” it recounted.

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