Environment

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, FES, and Service d’Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement, SAILD, organised a workshop to equip journalists with a good understanding of the challenges of climate negotiations at the international, regional and national level in order for them to better do good media coverage of COP26 and other climate-related issues.

The danger for Batchenga’s locals and the environment is due to the fact that the NHPC is failing to properly implement part of the project, which is the sustainable fallback plan for locals who have been ushered out of the water where they fished and extracted sand for a living. Others whose lands were taken from them to create space for the giant electricity project too are still waiting to be fully compensated.

The main aim of the webinar was to share results obtained by the African Forest Forum during the last two years from its work on strengthening sustainable management of Africa’s forests and trees outside forests and the role they play in meeting global and national climate change mitigation goals.

Over the years, the Centre for Community Regeneration and Development, CCREAD-Cameroon, in a bid to curb the indiscriminate and unlawful exploitation of the Cameroon-Bakossi rain forest, has put in resources to protect the forest from forest depleting activities.

The Centre for Community Regeneration and Development, CCREAD-Cameroon, has successfully electrified over 1,000 households in some hard-to-reach rain forest communities in Kupe Muanenguba Division, of Cameroon’s Southwest region.

In its drive for a cleaner and safer environment in Cameroon, Nestlé Cameroon, in partnership with Namé Recycling, has successfully collected and recycled over 50 tons of plastic waste at the end of the first quarter of 2021.

Nestlé, the world’s largest food processing company, has unveiled a detailed roadmap of how it will contribute to fighting climate change.
The Roadmap, unveiled in an online press event with journalists from several countries, outlined how Nestlé will focus on supporting regenerative agriculture, making its products environmentally-friendly, and switching completely to renewable energy. This, the company says, will be done by redoubling efforts to combat climate change.

The Foundation for Environment and Development, FEDEV, a nature-centred organisation, has drilled dozens of magistrates in the Southwest region on how to apply environment law in the judiciary to ensure a sustainable natural environment.

Nestlé has successfully achieved one of its set goals for 2020, by collecting and recycling over 100 tons of plastic waste in Cameroon, a goal which the company set as one of its contributions towards a cleaner and safer environment.

In the past 48 hours, a total of 390 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast. This is according to a record released yesterday by the International Organization for Migration in Libya. The emigrants, among them women and children feared death on the Libyan coast, in an attempt to