By Jonathan Ugbal The Cadet Cadre of the Cross River State Green Police, an initiative of the governor, Ben Ayade to combat climate change was on Friday unveiled in Calabar with a charge to be diligent and committed to their mandate. “We don’t want to see you compromise by way of inducement. We don’t expect
By Aplefe Ojong The Cross River State Government says it is putting structures that will allow city irrigation systems as measures to ensure the capital city of Calabar remains green all year round. The Commissioner for Environment, Engineer Mike Eraye disclosed this Saturday, in Calabar while supervising the on going work of replanting trees and
By Ogar Monday Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade says the state is basically a forest considering the fact thatit has one of the few remaining forest reserves in Africa and the highest in Nigeria. The Governor said this, Tuesday while declaring open the validation workshop of the United Nations Program on Reducing Emissions from
The views expressed in this article are strictly the views of the author and do not in anyway represent the views of CrossRiverWatch While at the public presentation of the Environmental Impact Assessment EIA, for the Cross River Super Highway which held at the Channels View Hotel in Calabar on Wednesday last week, I saw
INTRODUCTION Climate change is defined as a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is, in addition to natural climate variability, observed over comparable time periods (United Nations, 1992; IPCC, 2007). Threat of global climate change is one of the
By Our Correspondent Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has made a strong case for a climate equalization fund for Africa if the battle to reduce Green House Gas emissions is to succeed. Ayade, a professor of Environmental Science, made the case at the ongoing Climate Change Summit in Paris, France. The governor, who
By Our Correspondent Speaker of Cross River State House Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo is now a Strategist on Climate Change Adaptation following a successful course in London. The intensive training which now makes the Speaker a specialized policymaker on climate change adaptation, lasted four days and was organized by the International Center for Parliamentary