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 …
Applauding the Chinese Government"s closure of many of its ivory factories and retail outlets, the United Nations environment wing has called on other countries and territories to follow China"s example and improve the survival prospects for elephants across the world. The move, announced by the country"s State Forestry Administration, represents …
Countries in East Africa in conjunction with their multilateral partners must invest in vibrant early warning systems to enhance their response to recurrent droughts, a senior UN environment official said. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw also blamed climate change for the current drought that poses …
The UN Environment Programme on Thursday launched an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter - microplastics in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic - by 2022. Launched at the Economist World Ocean Summit in this Indonesian island known for coral reefs, the #CleanSeas …
The Board of Trustees on Ogoni cleanup has described the initial $1 billion earmarked for the project as unrealistic in the face of rising exchange rate of the naira. The President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara, disclosed this yesterday after their meeting …
Eight months after its ceremonial kick-off by Federal Government, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says it is gravely disturbed by the slow pace of the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Spokesperson to MOSOP president, Bari-ara Kpalap, told The Guardian at the …
Government today said India received $ 1.77 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) in non-conventional energy sector from April 2014 to September 2016. "Total FDI equity inflow in the non-conventional energy sector during April 2014 to September 2016 was $ 1.77 billion," the Commerce and Industry Ministry said in a statement. …
Green energy generation has reached a tipping point, the World Economic Forum, WEF, asserted in an investors handbook it released on Thursday, and called investors to shift towards more green energy investments, as investments remain below what is needed to reach the Paris Accord targets, despite the tipping point. The …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) constituted by the World Meteorological Organisation, in cooperation with United Nations Environment Programme is an internationally recognised body of professional experts having a mandate to assess research on climate change and present its findings in the form of ''assessment reports'' every 5-7 years. …
"With Donald Trump as the president-elect, there is now a big question mark on the survival of the Paris Agreement if the US chooses to opt out of it," added Chandra Bhushan. "With Donald Trump as the president-elect, there is now a big question mark on the survival of the …
The developed world should increase and accelerate their support to the developing nations bearing the brunt of climate change like rising sea levels, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim said here on Tuesday. "The world has promised to help developing countries adapt to the disruption and hardship …
Reports have emerged ahead of the talks showing that the current levels of commitments might not be enough to tame global warming India will be fighting for better climate financing and smoother technology transfers under the overarching principle of climate justice, at the upcoming global climate conference in Marrakech that …
The world must urgently increase its ambition to cut further roughly a quarter of predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions to have any chance of minimising dangerous climate change, the UN Environment Programme said on Thursday as it released its annual Emissions Gap report. However, India is mulling over delaying its …
The world must urgently increase its ambition to cut further roughly a quarter of predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions to have any chance of minimising dangerous climate change, the UN Environment Programme said on Thursday as it released its annual Emissions Gap report. However, India is mulling over delaying its …
CHENNAI: Who is responsible for ineffectiveness of environmental laws? Speakers at a regional conference on environment here on Saturday found no unanimous answers, but agreed that the onus was largely on the executive to enforce environment laws. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, empowered to crack down on offenders, however, …
River pollution: IIT-D prof calls for database of sewage inletsCHENNAI: A database of inlets into rivers is what is needed to plug the illegal flow of sewage and effluents, said IIT-Delhi professor A K Gosain as he called for a scientific approach towards restoring polluted rivers. He was speaking at …
The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal in association with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the pollution control boards of south Indian states will conduct a 'Regional Conference on Environment' in Chennai on October 22 and 23. The conference will be held on the premises of the …
A passionate appeal to emulate Mahatma Gandhi’s life and thoughts in the global fight against climate change marked the beginning of the ministerial segment of the Kigali meeting of the Montreal Protocol where countries are negotiating an agreement to eliminate planet-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the next 30-40 years. Erik Solheim, the …
Arresting local pollution will help us effectively deal with climate change, says Erik Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He informs that UNEP is "changing its language" to focus on local pollution that is closer to people and drive action towards it. Solheim who spoke on …
In Paris, big companies saw the climate agreement gives them enormous opportunity to create new green jobs in renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, smart transport using less fuel In Mumbai to participate in a historic beach clean-up, UNEP chief Erik Solheim says he reposes ‘immense faith’ in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s …
A week before Russia’s Daldykan river was turned red by a leak from a metals plant, the UN issued a warning as chilling as it was overlooked: 323 million people are at risk from life-threatening diseases caused by the pollution of rivers and lakes. Cholera, typhoid and other deadly pathogens …
