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From September 1 to 10, 2025, leaders from Africa, experts in climate change, practitioners from the private sector, members of civil society, youth leaders, donors and development partners, as well as representatives from UN bodies and various multilateral organizations will convene in the historic Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa for…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) has released a scoping paper titled “On the Road to COP30 and Beyond: Developing an Effective NDCs-LT-LEDS to Guide Africa’s Sustainable Development.” The paper examined the continent-wide landscape of Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS), assessing ambition,…

If Nigeria is to win the war against climate change and secure a sustainable future for its citizens, both living and unborn, it must immediately review its current strategy and shift its fight from the glasshouses in Abuja, the country’s capital, where most climate talks are usually held, to the…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) has made history by becoming the first environmental NGO in Nigeria to voluntarily publish its 2024 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Report—sending a bold message that climate accountability must begin with those who preach it. Led by renowned climate scholar Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, SPP’s…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) recently took a bold and unprecedented step by publishing its 2024 Greenhouse (GHG) Emissions report. I consider this as good innovation and I wish all institutions can be made to do same. Given the current circumstance where organisations still hesitate to quantify and…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) has convened a high level meeting with State Commissioners of Environment and Climate Change, under the auspices of the “Conference of Commissioners of Environment and Climate Change”. This initiative continues SPP’s commitment to strengthening subnational climate governance by building technical capacity, fostering collaboration,…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP)inaugurated a Review Panel on July 8, 2025, to review the methodology and scoring matrix for the forthcoming second edition of the Climate Governance Performance Rating and Ranking of Nigeria’s 36 states The Review Panel was carefully invited to provide advisory on the methodology…

By Chukwumerije Okereke and Nnimmo Bassey Outside actors are increasingly looking to test speculative climate fixes such as solar geoengineering in African countries. But this potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions, while putting the continent’s ecosystems and communities at risk. BRISTOL/BENIN CITY –…

Historically, the month of June is an important one for climate action. This is because it is the month when the meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies(SB) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) usually holds. These SBs’ meetings are critical as they address leftover discussions from the…