Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
Three high-level committees, private consultancy giving shape to it The Puducherry landscape might soon be dotted with solar-powered households, government buildings and public lighting under a plan to make this grid-lined former French enclave a ‘solar city.’ The ‘solar city’ initiative, spearheaded by the Renewable Energy Agency of Puducherry (REAP) …
Nearly 70 per cent brick kilns of the country are yet to adopt environment-friendly brick making technology to reduce pollution as the deadline for doing so expires on June 30. However, brick manufacturers said that deadline or time extension are not the solution rather the government should give some more …
Dolloi Chiefs of Jaintia Hills agree to work with SPIKAP to implement GEF/ UNDP pilot project grant for protection of six Sacred Forests, as a pilot project and to also sensitise those incharge of the Community Village Forest, Clan Forest and Large tracts of Private Forest A meeting of the …
The best quality honey is produced from Aegialitis rotundifolia and Cynometra ramiflora, according to the mangrove cell. In a bid to encourage locals to conserve mangrove forests, the Mangrove Cell will soon introduce apiculture. The GOI-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) committee, which met in Mumbai last week, has approved a …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will sponsor studies on turtles by Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to track the movement, migration and habitat of this marine species in the ocean. For the first time 10 turtles would be tracked through satellite telemetry. The Olive Ridley sea turtles have skipped …
Kohima: The Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) of Old Jalukie village under Peren district has been selected for the India Biodiversity Award 2014 under the co-management category, official sources on Wednesday said. JFMC has been invited to attend the ceremony scheduled tomorrow at Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar …
The visiting regional director of UNDP, Haol ang Xu, on a five-day visit, here, Tuesday, applauded Bangladesh’s efforts in cutting down urban poverty by 13 percent in the last four years. “Urban poverty in seven major cities and towns came down from 42 percent to 29 percent during the period,” …
Committee has approved a Rs 30-lakh proposal of Wildlife Institute of India to track turtles by attaching a Platform Terminal Transmitter. Where do marine turtle hatchlings spend the rest of their lives on leaving the Ratnagiri beaches? The mystery of the little-known life cycle of these marine Cetaceans will soon …
Visiting Regional Director of UNDP Haol ang Xu on Monday has applauded Bangladesh’s efforts in cutting down urban poverty by 13 percent in the last four years. “Urban poverty in seven major cities and towns came down from 42 percent to 29 percent during the period,” said a UNDP report. …
Laamu atoll to set benchmark for climate change development, says UNDP thumbnail The United Nations in Maldives launched its new project, the ‘Low Emission Climate Resilient Development (LECReD) Programme’ in Fonadhoo, Laamu atoll yesterday (May 18). Azusa Kubota, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) representative, said the ambitious programme would set …
The Nepal Human Report 2014 developed jointly by the National Planning Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was released in the capital on Thursday. Vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission Dr Govind Raj Pokharel and Visiting UN Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for …
Having acquired skills to build clay brick stoves, non-formal education instructor Phuntsho Rabten aspires to impart his skills to those in his village in Lhuentse. The clay brick stove is ‘fuel wood efficient and emits less greenhouse gases’. Phuntsho Rabten said his village in Tsango under Khoma gewog was mountainous …
The Sri Lankan government has taken measures to increase the country's forest cover to 35 percent by the year 2020. The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Energy Development has said that steps have been taken to expand cultivation of forest in all districts. According to the UNDP, Sri Lanka has …
The Nu 7.12M project will respond to immediate climate change adaptation needs NAPA: The world’s largest climate change adaptation project will begin from this year in Bhutan. UNDP, Gross National Happiness commission and the national environment commission secretariat (NECS) signed the project document at the Tashichhodzong, Thimphu on Friday. The …
Bhutan will soon start implementing the largest Climate Change Adaptation project in the World. The project, titled - “Addressing the Risks of Climate-induced Disasters through Enhanced National and Local Capacity for Effective Actions” is the second adaptation project in Bhutan funded through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) which is …
The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, in collaboration with the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, recently started a scoping study supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Dal Lake titled “Strategy and Action Plan for Strengthening the Ecological Integrity of the Dal …
The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' livelihoods blighted, U.N. experts and climatologists say. Varying degrees of drought are hitting almost two thirds of the limited arable land across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories …
The Madhya Pradesh government will be organising the “Lake Festival” in the state capital from February 14 to 16 to boost tourism and in sharp contrast with this event is a recent order of the National Green Tribunal Central Zonal Bench expressing grave concern over the poor condition of lakes …
The Ashden India Collective, a team comprising Ashden awardees from India headed by solar power expert S P Gon Chaudhuri, has received a grant of Rs 40 lakh from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to prepare an action plan for commercial use of renewable energy in five states of …
The Ashden India Collective, a team comprising Ashden awardees from India headed by solar power expert S P Gon Chaudhuri, has received a grant of Rs 40 lakh from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to prepare an action plan for commercial use of renewable energy in five states of …
