Fossil to account for 20% of energy mix by 2050
Sopuruchi Onwuka The highly credible BP energy outlook holds that the world will displace some 60 percent of fossil fuels with greener renewable energy in the next 28 years as the prevailing energy transition continues to gather momentum in response…
ADNOC activates $15bn decarbonization with CO2 injection project
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has launched the country’s plan to deliver on its Net Zero by 2050 ambition. ADNOC said it has started a CO2 injection well for full capture and sequestration of CO2 into Abu Dhabi’s carbonate…
EU to blacklist Cameroon over illegal fishing
The European Union weekend issued a “red card” to Cameroon and would ask EU member states to add the country to the bloc’s blacklist for failing to cooperate in the international fight against illegal fishing. The EU commission said the…
Nigeria is trapped between energy poverty, climate impact __NNPC
The twin impacts of energy poverty and climate change have wedged Nigeria between conflicting needs for decarbonisation and energy security through technologies that deliver both simultaneously. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited declared at the Practical Nigerian Content (PNC) Forum…
WMO says drought hit 3.6 m people, world getting drier
More than 3.6 million people do not have access to an adequate water supply, and large areas of the world are only getting dryer, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO State of Global Water Resources…
How the big thieves boozed and dozed off
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A herd of elephants in India searched out and devoured a few barrels at local wine fermenting cluster, they then went light and into deep slumber that triggered alarms to the local preservation office. The…
African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate…
Canada, Nigeria target oil and gas methane emissions with new laws
Oil and gas producers Canada and Nigeria have become the latest countries to tackle the potent greenhouse gas methane with laws to rein in emissions in the fossil fuel energy sector. The announcements came as the United States on Friday…
Ogoni widows withdraw case from Dutch court against Shell
A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday….
Oando Clean Energy Limited Leads Nigeria Private Sector Discourse at COP27
Today, the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) themed ‘Delivering for People and the Planet’ kicks off in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. The event will host more than 45,000 registered COP27 participants representing Parties, the United Nations (UN), regional non-governmental and…
