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COVID19: GIFSEP urges Nigerians to plant trees, gardens

Ihesiulo Grace 13 June 2020 0

*Says, it will reduce   impact of food shortages, hunger The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), has called on Nigerians to plant more trees and establish home gardens during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. GISEP  Executive Director, Mr David Michael

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GIFSEP Urges FG to implement paris agreement on climate change

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2018 0

Executive Director of Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation the (GIFSEP), David Terungwa has urged the Federal Government to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, which Nigeria is a signatory. The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions

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GIFSEP Trains FCT Schools On Curbing Climate Change

Ihesiulo Grace 27 June 2018 0

The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), has held a capacity building programme for some secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory to address climate change. The programme was supported by the Global Environment Facility –Small Grant Program (GEF-SGP) implemented by the United Nations Development Program UNDP. Executive

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GIFSEP, Others Write AFDB, Seeks Phasing Out Of Finance To Coal Fired Plants In Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 28 May 2018 0

Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem preservation (GIFSEP), and 25 other environment based non governmental organizations across Africa have called on the African Development Bank (AFDB) to stop financing coal fired power plants projects in Nigeria. Speaking while addressing a press conference in Abuja, the group described as strange that in this era of […]

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Climate change: GIFSEP powers school with solar

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2018 0

As part of capacity building of students to address climate change in schools in FCT Abuja, a Non-Government Organization Global Initiative for Food security and Ecosystem Preservation with support of GEF Small Grant Program has provided solar to power four class rooms in Government Secondary School Yaba Abaji Area Council Abuja. Speaking at workshop training […]

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Environmental Culture: Group advocates tree planting to halt climate change

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2018 0

In its bid to address the adverse effect of climate change in the country, a civil society group under the aegis of Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation, GIFSEP, has called for tree planting in schools in the Federal Capital Territory. According to environmentalists, one of the practical ways to combat climate change […]

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Climate Change: Ban Coal Mining, Group Urges FG, NASS

Ihesiulo Grace 6 December 2017 0

A group, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) has called on the Federal Government to ban coal mining in the country in order to mitigate the effects of climate change. David Michael, team leader, DeCOALonise Nigeria Coalition, who is also the Executive Director of GIFSEP made the call at a press conference […]