Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
HONOLULU: The world edged closer to a 2020 goal to repair vast areas of damaged natural lands and forests, officials announced Saturday at the world´s largest conservation meeting. Malawi and Guatemala committed to restoring a total of 4.54 million hectares of degraded land, officials said at the International Union for …
The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) announced on May 3 the approval of two technical assistance projects totaling US $0,8 million that will strengthen the capacity of Côte d'Ivoire to access climate finance and integrate climate resilience into two transboundary projects in Togo and Benin and in Zambia and Zimbabwe. …
African countries have agreed to cooperate in setting limits for use of lead in paints with a view to phasing it out by 2020. This is because of its dangers to human beings, especially to children, and the environment. In a workshop jointly organised by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) …
In a startling admission, the UK authorities have informed Amnesty International that they do not have the tools, resources or expertise to investigate whether multinational commodities giant Trafigura conspired to dump toxic waste in the Ivory Coast. The statement came after Amnesty presented a legal brief and 5,000 page dossier …
Full-sun cocoa farming is currently the most widespread cocoa cultivation system in humid and sub-humid Côte d’Ivoire. Higher short-term yields from increasing surfaces under cultivation in this farming system have contributed to the country being ranked as top cocoa producer in the world. However the negative consequences including biodiversity loss, …
Climate and weather conditions, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, precipitation and temperature influence the birth sex ratio (BSR) of various higher latitude species, including deer, elephant seals or northern human populations. Although, tropical regions show only little variation in temperature, climate and weather conditions can fluctuate with consequences for …
Cocoa production will become increasingly difficult in the key growing regions of West Africa by 2030 because of climate change, according to a new study.
A policy guide from the FAO, titled "Promoting the Growth and Development of Smallholder Seed Enterprises for Food Security Crops," describes lessons learned from case studies of smallholder seed enterprises in Brazil, India and Cote d'Ivoire. The development of smallholder seed enterprises represents an important opportunity to provide high quality …
In 2002 CREPA initiated a regional research and demonstration programme on ecological sanitation in seven West African countries. ECOSAN is focused on simultaneously improving sanitation and food production. This is done by making urine and faeces more hygienic and then using them as safe fertilisers. Demonstrations showed that crops fertilised …
One of Africa's highest environmental damage settlements was reached on February 13, 2007, between the Ivory Coast government and a Dutch-based commodity trading company in a toxic waste dumping case in the port city of Abidjan. The company, Trafigura Beheer bv, agreed to pay us$197 million to secure the release …
• Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has reinstated three senior civil servants, suspended for their involvement in the dumping of toxic wastes around the capital city of Abidjan, in September 2006. • Borneo island in Indonesia is being plagued by mud flows, containing toxic substances like nitrogen oxide and methane. …
Following the diagnosis of four cases of yellow fever in Ivory Coast, who has called for an immediate vaccination programme in the country. According to who, about 20 per cent of the population is likely to get the disease, with half of them dying, if there is a yellow fever …
The Dutch cargo vessel Probo Koala, which illegally dumped huge amount of deadly toxic waste around Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan in the first week of September, has left Estonia and is now heading west towards the Baltic Sea. The Probo Koala had been impounded in Estonia's Paldiski port, on …
Ivory Coast has begun mopping up the toxic waste that was illegally dumped by a Dutch-based commodities company, Trafigura Beheer BV, in early September. The waste, which left eight dead and at least 44,000 seeking medical treatment, was released by the company's chartered tanker, Probo Koala. Wastes still remain scattered …
The cabinet of Ivory Coast has resigned following the dumping of toxic sludge in the city of Abidjan. A Panamanian-registered vessel, Probo Koala, had dumped over 500 tonnes of liquid toxic sludge into 14 open-air rubbish tips around Abidjan. Experts say, Marpol, the international convention on maritime pollution strictly prohibits …
Scientists from different parts of the world are camping at the Tai forest in western Ivory Coast to track down the source of the ebola virus. The research team has set up a laboratory each in the forest and the capital Abidjan to identify ebola antibodies in captured forest animals. …
Ivory Coast has one of the best telephone networks in Africa, yet, the Internet revolution seems to have swept past it. In fact only 12 of Africa's 54 countries are linked to the Internet, raising fears in international policy circles of a further marginalisation of the continent. The two major …
The Cote of Ivoire government has taken a long overdue step to check heedless deforestation. In mid-September, the Forest Protection Council instituted a ban on the export of all unprocessed wood. "The export of tim- ber, even semi-processed will not be allowed", declared a government statement. The government welcome as …
Foreign and national investors are being wooed in a big way to the Ivory Coast, which is overhauling its 30-year-old mining code for their benefit. The objective, according to a draft code presented before the parliament, is to make mining of gold, diamonds and other minerals as important to the …
