Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund turns to India shipbreaking to monitor ecological damage
The fund owns shares in 9,158 companies, 1.4% of the world's listed equity, so decisions to drop or reinstate companies from its investments carry considerable weight among investors. The ethics watchdog
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Require out-of-the-box ideas to tackle climate change
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu Wednesday said climate change, growing levels of pollution and eradicating poverty were some of the major challenges faced by the modern world and out-of-the-box ideas were
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The cost of coastal zone degradation in West Africa
Beyond the shattered lives, the harsh consequences of erosion, pollution and flooding are very costly to Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Togo. A new World Bank study reveals in economic terms the cost
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Eskom pollution kills almost 2000 people a year- report
Eskom estimates that emissions from its coal-fired power stations kill 534 people a year – but an independent review of Eskom’s data estimates that the number of people who die is at least 1850 a year.
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African Union promotes sustainable mining in members
The African Union (AU) is conducting a public campaign for sustainable mining in the 55 member states, an official of the bloc said Tuesday. Frank Mughenyi, senior industrial advisor at the Office of
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Chinese university eyes partnership with Africa research bodies on soil fertility
China's prestigious Tsinghua University is seeking to collaborate with Africa research institutes in order to improve soil fertility in the continent. Hou Deyi, associate professor at Tsinghua University
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Global linkages: a graphic look at the changing Arctic
Sharp and potentially devastating temperature rises of 3C to 5C in the Arctic are now inevitable even if the world succeeds in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement, research
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Nigeria: 'Ogoni Clean Up Exercise Lacks Transparency, Accountability'
The controversy surrounding Ogoni clean up exercise may not have abated as civil society groups are still questioning the process being adopted by the federal authorities to remedy the sites. The group
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US Nagar’s Rudrapur town slips to 403rd spot in Swachh Survekshan 2019
RUDRAPUR: With its significant improvement after being ranked 325th in 2017 and 279th in 2018, the district headquarters of Udham Singh Nagar, Rudrapur has slipped in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 ranking
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A global pact for the environment: legal foundations
The project leading to this compilation of studies has two purposes. The first is to leave a record of the intellectual discussions underpinning the project of a Global Pact for the Environment, with its