In 2015 when the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched, Uganda was presiding over the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), chairing most of the global negotiations that midwifed Agenda 2030 [...]
October is dubbed the United Nations (UN) month and globally several humanitarian activities are undertaken to commemorate the UN anniversary. [...]
If any Ugandan still doubts the existential threat that climate change poses, the rapidly changing climate conditions in Uganda is the answer. [...]
Climate change is both real and deadly though some people are still not giving it the urgent treatment it merits. [...]
Read the briefing here The Environmental Shield is a Ugandan civic organization committed to environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, good natural resources governance & climate justice. [...]
The government of Uganda on 27th July 2021 acknowledged that the environment and Natural resources sector has registered a decline over the last 29 years. [...]
Some 5,770 hectares of Bugoma Forest Reserve in western Uganda have reportedly been leased to Hoima Sugar Ltd, who will clear the woodland to make way for a sugarcane plantation. [...]
Conservationists have branded a decision by the Ugandan high court to allow swathes of forest to be cleared for a sugarcane plantation “an unforgivable shame for all people”. [...]