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Sustainability
The important roles of environmental education (EE) as a tool for advancing the United Nations Su... more The important roles of environmental education (EE) as a tool for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been clearly identified in national policy visions and guidelines in Nigeria. Despite this increasing recognition however, the implementation and delivery of EE programs remain adversely impacted by a wide range of practical implementation challenges. While a number of existing studies have compiled the importance of EE for advancing the SDGs, a detailed examination of the law and governance challenges that limit the implementation of EE programs in Nigeria has remained absent. This article fills a gap in this regard. Various legal and institutional challenges that arise with the design and implementation of EE programs in Nigeria are examined in order to identify the ways in which an integrative governance framework on EE can help close these gaps. The study suggests that an elaboration of coherent national strategy on EE; a dedicated budgetary al...
Nigerian Yearbook of International Law
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
The significant disruptions to global energy markets across the world, in light of the COVID-19 p... more The significant disruptions to global energy markets across the world, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown that without robust law and governance frameworks to mitigate and manage pandemic-related disruptions to energy supply, global efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals may be stifled. This article examines legal and governance aspects of designing and implementing disaster risk reduction and resilience (DRRR) frameworks to ensure the security of energy supply in times of pandemic related disruptions. Various legal and institutional challenges that arise with extant DRRR frameworks, such as weak conceptualization of pandemic related risks in extant legislation; preexisting patterns of uneven energy access; gaps in data collection and sharing with respect to pandemic risks; inadequate cross-sectoral coordination amongst institutional actors, and resource limitations are examined in order to identify the ways in which an integrative legal framew...
The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
It was a great pleasure and honour for me to read through the 340-page manuscript of the book ent... more It was a great pleasure and honour for me to read through the 340-page manuscript of the book entitled the Elusive Search for Nation Nigeria, written by a prolific author, people's lawyer, astute farmer, philanthropist, relentless human rights crusader, cerebral legal scholar, Professor of the Practice of Law, a global citizen, and the Aare Bamofin of the Universe, Ambassador Aare Emmanuel Afe Babalola. The book is about the big issue of the historical and contemporary threats facing the peace, unity and progress of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is currently at a political, economic, social, and developmental crossroads. Poverty is at an alarming rate, several of our road, electricity, water, aviation and other infrastructure are time-worn, our educational systems keep nose diving, religious and ethnic intolerance are surging; criminality, insecurity,
The Extractive Industries and Society
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law
Extractives Industry Law in Africa
The contents of this paper are the author's sole responsibility. They do not necessarily represen... more The contents of this paper are the author's sole responsibility. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies or any of its members.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
Global Journal of Comparative Law
Global Journal of Comparative Law
The aim of this article is to examine the application of the United Nations Sustainable Developme... more The aim of this article is to examine the application of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) on biological diversity in Nigeria, emphasizing the preconditions for implementation and the barriers and difficulties for their realization. Given Nigeria’s faltering attempts and failure to achieve the biodiversity goals in the Millennium Development Goals (mdgs), a predecessor to the sdgs, this article builds a profile of the salient law and institutional barriers to the implementation and attainment of the sdgs on biodiversity in Nigeria and proffers practical and normative solutions to those challenges. The methodology approach is based in an analytical and survey of the scope and status of the implementation of international law norms on biodiversity in Nigeria. The results indicate that archaic legislative provision on biodiversity; lack of coherent post-2015 biodiversity agenda; lack of institutional coordination; absence of political will; and inadequate stakehol...
Global Journal of Comparative Law
Two of the key priorities of the Arab world in the coming years are to develop and deploy clean t... more Two of the key priorities of the Arab world in the coming years are to develop and deploy clean technologies (cleantech) needed to combat the adverse effects of climate change in the region; and to diversify domestic economies to become low carbon economies with greater prospects for green jobs. However, despite broad political discussions of these policy goals, several countries in the Middle East and North African (mena) region continue to lag in terms of the level and adequacy of entrepreneurial cleantech start-up activities. For mena countries to bridge current gaps in entrepreneurial cleantech capital, entrepreneurship education and training is critical. This article investigates the ethical and contextual basis of cleantech entrepreneurship in the mena region. Focusing on clean technology businesses, given their national and global economic and environmental role in future low-carbon societies and economies, the article then investigates the principal causes of the limited dev...
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 2015
In the article titled Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small I... more In the article titled Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States, Professor Maxine Burkett exhaustively unpacks some of the most fundamental climate-induced slow-onset events and concerns facing the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Burkett proposes a compensation and rehabilitation mechanism to address damage and loss to small island states due to slow-onset events. Using Caribbean AOSIS states as primary examples, Burkett's insightful paper provides a thorough and sustained argument on the rationale for a compensation and rehabilitation mechanism as well as a framework for implementing such mechanism at the international level. This response paper examines the potential and paradoxes of the compensation and rehabilitation proposal, with a focus on some practical questions that a Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission (CRC) may face along the way. It starts by providing further statistics on the dual vulnerabilities of AOSIS states in Africa that lend credence to Burkett's arguments that the vulnerabilities of many AOSIS states call for global responses that go beyond disaster risk reduction and management and risk transfer, to focus more on providing a robust package of compensation and rehabilitation through a CRC. It then discusses four key practical questions that must be further examined to fine-tune the CRC proposal. They are epistemic questions, floodgate question, institutional proliferation, and accountability questions.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
Sustainability
The important roles of environmental education (EE) as a tool for advancing the United Nations Su... more The important roles of environmental education (EE) as a tool for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been clearly identified in national policy visions and guidelines in Nigeria. Despite this increasing recognition however, the implementation and delivery of EE programs remain adversely impacted by a wide range of practical implementation challenges. While a number of existing studies have compiled the importance of EE for advancing the SDGs, a detailed examination of the law and governance challenges that limit the implementation of EE programs in Nigeria has remained absent. This article fills a gap in this regard. Various legal and institutional challenges that arise with the design and implementation of EE programs in Nigeria are examined in order to identify the ways in which an integrative governance framework on EE can help close these gaps. The study suggests that an elaboration of coherent national strategy on EE; a dedicated budgetary al...
Nigerian Yearbook of International Law
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
The significant disruptions to global energy markets across the world, in light of the COVID-19 p... more The significant disruptions to global energy markets across the world, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown that without robust law and governance frameworks to mitigate and manage pandemic-related disruptions to energy supply, global efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals may be stifled. This article examines legal and governance aspects of designing and implementing disaster risk reduction and resilience (DRRR) frameworks to ensure the security of energy supply in times of pandemic related disruptions. Various legal and institutional challenges that arise with extant DRRR frameworks, such as weak conceptualization of pandemic related risks in extant legislation; preexisting patterns of uneven energy access; gaps in data collection and sharing with respect to pandemic risks; inadequate cross-sectoral coordination amongst institutional actors, and resource limitations are examined in order to identify the ways in which an integrative legal framew...
The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
It was a great pleasure and honour for me to read through the 340-page manuscript of the book ent... more It was a great pleasure and honour for me to read through the 340-page manuscript of the book entitled the Elusive Search for Nation Nigeria, written by a prolific author, people's lawyer, astute farmer, philanthropist, relentless human rights crusader, cerebral legal scholar, Professor of the Practice of Law, a global citizen, and the Aare Bamofin of the Universe, Ambassador Aare Emmanuel Afe Babalola. The book is about the big issue of the historical and contemporary threats facing the peace, unity and progress of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is currently at a political, economic, social, and developmental crossroads. Poverty is at an alarming rate, several of our road, electricity, water, aviation and other infrastructure are time-worn, our educational systems keep nose diving, religious and ethnic intolerance are surging; criminality, insecurity,
The Extractive Industries and Society
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law
Extractives Industry Law in Africa
The contents of this paper are the author's sole responsibility. They do not necessarily represen... more The contents of this paper are the author's sole responsibility. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies or any of its members.
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The)
Global Journal of Comparative Law
Global Journal of Comparative Law
The aim of this article is to examine the application of the United Nations Sustainable Developme... more The aim of this article is to examine the application of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) on biological diversity in Nigeria, emphasizing the preconditions for implementation and the barriers and difficulties for their realization. Given Nigeria’s faltering attempts and failure to achieve the biodiversity goals in the Millennium Development Goals (mdgs), a predecessor to the sdgs, this article builds a profile of the salient law and institutional barriers to the implementation and attainment of the sdgs on biodiversity in Nigeria and proffers practical and normative solutions to those challenges. The methodology approach is based in an analytical and survey of the scope and status of the implementation of international law norms on biodiversity in Nigeria. The results indicate that archaic legislative provision on biodiversity; lack of coherent post-2015 biodiversity agenda; lack of institutional coordination; absence of political will; and inadequate stakehol...
Global Journal of Comparative Law
Two of the key priorities of the Arab world in the coming years are to develop and deploy clean t... more Two of the key priorities of the Arab world in the coming years are to develop and deploy clean technologies (cleantech) needed to combat the adverse effects of climate change in the region; and to diversify domestic economies to become low carbon economies with greater prospects for green jobs. However, despite broad political discussions of these policy goals, several countries in the Middle East and North African (mena) region continue to lag in terms of the level and adequacy of entrepreneurial cleantech start-up activities. For mena countries to bridge current gaps in entrepreneurial cleantech capital, entrepreneurship education and training is critical. This article investigates the ethical and contextual basis of cleantech entrepreneurship in the mena region. Focusing on clean technology businesses, given their national and global economic and environmental role in future low-carbon societies and economies, the article then investigates the principal causes of the limited dev...
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 2015
In the article titled Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small I... more In the article titled Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States, Professor Maxine Burkett exhaustively unpacks some of the most fundamental climate-induced slow-onset events and concerns facing the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Burkett proposes a compensation and rehabilitation mechanism to address damage and loss to small island states due to slow-onset events. Using Caribbean AOSIS states as primary examples, Burkett's insightful paper provides a thorough and sustained argument on the rationale for a compensation and rehabilitation mechanism as well as a framework for implementing such mechanism at the international level. This response paper examines the potential and paradoxes of the compensation and rehabilitation proposal, with a focus on some practical questions that a Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission (CRC) may face along the way. It starts by providing further statistics on the dual vulnerabilities of AOSIS states in Africa that lend credence to Burkett's arguments that the vulnerabilities of many AOSIS states call for global responses that go beyond disaster risk reduction and management and risk transfer, to focus more on providing a robust package of compensation and rehabilitation through a CRC. It then discusses four key practical questions that must be further examined to fine-tune the CRC proposal. They are epistemic questions, floodgate question, institutional proliferation, and accountability questions.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance, 2000