Noticias sobre Togo
Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0: efforts ramp up to stem plastic tide at its source
In a decisive move to combat marine plastic pollution, six public development banks have launched Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0, expanding on the success of its first phase.
Green Climate Fund approves $103 million in financing for early warning systems in seven countries
Led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the five-year project will bolster multi-hazard early warning systems in Antigua and Barbuda, Cambodia, Chad, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, and Somalia, and directly benefit more than 26 million people.
Mono River Basin transboundary water management project launched in Benin and Togo
The Regional Initiative for Water and Sanitation in the Mono cross-border basin (RIWE-Mono) aims to restore ecosystems, improve the living conditions of people living along the river and promote concerted, sustainable management of natural resources, while strengthening cross-border cooperation between the two countries (Benin and Togo) that share this watercourse.
Water investment key to averting global conflict surge
The international think-tank Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) launched the 5th edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR).
IsDB approves over US$ 3 Billion in financing for major development and infrastructure
The Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has approved more than US$ 3 billion in financing for 20 socio-economic development projects across 17 member countries.
UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs sounds alarm on flooding impact across West and Central Africa
Investments in preparedness, prevention and response measures needed to mitigate impact on people’s livelihoods and well-being
Cote d’Ivoire is 10th African nation to join UN Water Convention
Faced with increasing water stress and climate change impacts on the water resources it shares with its neighbours, Cote d’Ivoire has joined the United Nations Water Convention – a UN treaty to improve joint water management across borders.
IAEA empowers Africanscientists to manage mapping of regional groundwater resources
Scientists in the Sahel are finding quality groundwater sources — thanks to a nuclear technique and a decade of support and training from the IAEA.
Burkina Faso confirms interest in joining the Water Convention
The rapid increase in demand for water and current security threats in the Sahel are posing ever-greater challenges to the sustainable management of the country's shared water resources Burkina's forthcoming accession to the Water Convention will help to give political priority to the issue of water resource management in the region.
Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”
UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA).
African and global institutional investors sign on to new $500m infrastructure fund
The fund will catalyse further investment flows into critical infrastructure, including energy, transportation, telecommunications, and water.
10 states in Africa, Middle East and Latin America commit to join key water-sharing treaty
In an unprecedented political push for cross-border water cooperation, Ministers from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East have declared at the UN Water Conference their country’s resolve to join a key United Nations accord known as the Water Convention.
“Get serious about water,” eminent panel urges COP27
Climate change impacts are felt through water.
Cameroon becomes 6th African country to join the UN Water Convention
Cameroon became the 47th Party to the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) following the…
Water and climate coalition leaders issue urgent call for integrated water and climate action
Water is on the frontline of climate change and top adaptation priority.
Climate change triggers mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa
Changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and more extreme weather contributed to mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa in 2020, compounding the socio-economic and health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Early warning initiative advances in a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated impacts of extreme weather and climate change in vulnerable countries but also highlighted the need to build resilience against a multitude of hazards through better early warnings and risk information.
MCC and Mongolia celebrate the launch of $350 million Mongolia Water Compact
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S.
Ghana pushes forward cross-border water cooperation in Africa by joining UN Conventions
Last week Ghana became the 3rd African country to accede to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, serviced by UNECE, and the 37th Party to the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.
15 countries show interest in acceding to Water Convention
Transboundary waters cover nearly half of the earth’s land surface and account for 60 per cent of global freshwater.