It presents an update on the progress on the implementation of the Pollution Action Plan adopted at UNEA-4 in resolution 4/21, including some highlights in implementing the specific deliverables identified in the Plan. The Plan aims to build synergies across the work of UNEP and to provide the glue across …
Water shortages mostly due to poor management While political candidates promise the world, all that some people want is to be free of water shortages. That
ECORA is a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project initiated by the Arctic Council Working Group on the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), UNEP/GRID-Arendal, and the Russian Federation that uses an integrated ecosystem management approach to conserve biodiversity and minimize habitat fragmentation in the Russian Arctic. The main phase …
Around the world, a massive injection of cash is being prepared by governments desperately trying to resolve the financial crisis and prevent the recession turning into something worse. The economic stimulus, amounting to more than $2,800bn, is being compared with the "New Deal" programme of spending on national infrastructure initiated …
In Pakistan about 19.8 million people are suffering from asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This was stated by the Acting Secretary Ministry of Environment Imtiaz Inayat Elahi while inaugurating a one day International Awareness and Information Workshop on Transition Strategy for phasing out Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)-Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) …
India can become a global leader in climate char constructs only green buildings, says architect Robin David | TNN Here is a number that a world heating up like a tandoor because of cli mate change can ill afford - Buildings consume nearly 50 per cent of all energy globally …
Six students of the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Academy (SASA), Ropar, have been invited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to Finland. The team will participate in a week-long conference at University of JOENSUU in Finland in the second week of April. The students are Ranjit Singh, Gurtej Singh, Harmandeep …
This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. It draws on a substantial body of experience at the country level and the many lessons learned by the United Nations Development Programme and …
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: KENYA Author: Daniel Wallis NAIROBI - Up to a quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation and loss, water scarcity and species infestation, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The fall-off will strike just …
MANGROVES NOT BIOSHIELDS: Coastal forests such as mangroves cannot protect communities from tsunamis, claims a new study to be published by the United Nations Environment Programme. Researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, Australia, analyzed the pattern of damage that occurred during the …
This report, which inaugurates a new policy series by UNEP on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts, aims to summarize the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages between environment, conflict and peacebuilding, and to demonstrate the need for those linkages to be addressed in a more coherent …
Since 1904, when Prince Piero Conti managed to get a light bulb to flicker in an Italian lava field, geothermal power has depended on volcanic heat. The earth
New York: Boosting funding for efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions stemming from deforestation can simultaneously combat climate change and conserve biodiversity, a newly made atlas launched by a United Nations agency shows. The Carbon and Biodiversity Demonstration Atlas of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) pinpoints areas where high carbon …
India should not dismiss the UNEP report lightly. A new element has been added to the continuing controversy over global climate change with a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released last month claiming that an Atmospheric Brown Cloud, for which Asia and South America are mainly responsible, is a …
Around 13 megacities have so far been identified as ABC hotpots. Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Dhaka, Karachi, Kolkata, Lagos, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tehran where soot levels are 10 per cent of the total mass of all human-made particles. ABCs can reduce sunlight hitting the Earth's surface in …
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, linking the occasional haze (dubbed as atmospheric brown clouds) over cities in India and other Asian countries with global warming, has raised a controversy that adds a new element to the divide between the developed and developing world on the issue of climate …
The environmental resources of the province are declining at an alarming rate and particularly the condition of Indus Delta needs immediate attention, which is fast degrading due to lack of freshwater in Indus river. This was stated by Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternate Energy, Askari Taqvi. He was talking …
Frenzied constructions ahead of the Commonwealth Games may be responsible for the Capital getting dimmer, smoggier, and unhealthier. A recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board for Delhi reveals that despite the CNG conversion of commercial transport vehicles in the city, Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and Respirable Suspended Particulate …
