Theophilus Yartey, Deputy Editor of Ghana’s leading business newspaper, Business & Financial Times, has won the first Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Finance & Economic Journalist of the Year Award.

UN-HABITAT and the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the global celebrations of World Habitat Day 2009 in Washington, DC on October 5.

At a special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on climate change, over thirty African Ministers of Environment agreed in May to adopt the Nairobi Declaration to fight climate change in their regions.The Ministers also plan to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into their national and regional development plans, policies and strategies.

At a special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) on climate change, over thirty African Ministers of Environment agreed in May to adopt the Nairobi Declaration to fight climate change in their regions.