During the Special Session of the D-8 Commission Meeting held under the chairmanship of Turkey, UNCTAD presented the key elements of the joint D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation - UNCTAD Guiding Principles for Investment Policy making. Important agenda items regarding the forthcoming D-8 Summit Meeting were discussed. In January 2020, …
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's state media say heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed 11 people in a mountainous area in the country's north. State TV says authorities fear more casualties from the Sunday evening floods in the provinces of Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin. It says a Chinese national was …
More than 70 per cent respondents in Uganda, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Peru, Brazil, the Philippines and India said they were more concerned about climate change than economic instability, ISIS and Iran's nuclear programmes.
Iran will be allowed to conduct research and development (R&D;) with uranium for advanced centrifuges during the first 10 years of a nuclear agreement with major powers, according to the text of the deal posted on the Russian foreign ministry website. "Iran will continue to conduct enrichment R&D; in a …
TEHRAN- An official at the Department of Environment announced that 3,000 billion rials (about $90.8 million) were allocated to anti-desertification projects including: growing soil, stabilizing trees, erosion control and revival of lagoons, the Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. According to Motasedi, the Department of Environment, the Forests, Range and …
TEHRAN- Iranian officials at the Department of Environment will introduce new bill with tougher penalties for wild animal poaching, Mehr news-agency reports on Saturday. The new law will be announced within the next week and will increase the penalties for killing the Asiatic Cheetah from the current 20 Million Tomans …
TEHRAN -- Head of the Department of Environment has said that 35 million Iranians are affected by air pollution. Masoumeh Ebtekar categorized the causes of air pollution in two groups, automobiles and dust, IRNA reported on Tuesday. As part of efforts to reduce the effects of the first category, the …
Nowadays, aquatic organisms are used as bio-indicators to assess ecological water quality in western regions, but have hardly been used in an Iranian context. We, therefore, evaluated the suitability of several indices to assess the water quality for an Iranian case study. Original Source
TEHRAN -- Noise pollution in downtown Tehran is 15 to 25 decibels (dB) above the healthy threshold, says chief of staff of environment and stable development of Tehran Municipality. Motor vehicles are the major factor responsible for the city’s high noise pollution, Alimohammad Shaeri told Fars news agency on Wednesday. …
TEHRAN -- Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says that the municipality under his leadership is considering measures to reduce air pollution in Tehran by 50 percent in the course of 4 years. Speaking on Monday at a ceremony to inaugurate subway stations, Qalibaf called for joint effort by all involved organizations …
TEHRAN - Iran launched a new satellite into orbit on Monday "successfully," state IRIB TV reported. Equipped with GPS navigation system, the home-made satellite, named Fajr, was put into orbit aboard Safir launch vehicle. The satellite was put into elliptical orbit of 250 km to 400 km, according to Press …
Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), together with the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), has awarded US$57 million in loans for renewable energy projects in five developing countries including Iran and Mauritania. The facility will provide a total of $350m in soft loans over seven funding cycles. The first selection …
Iran has backed up months of warnings to Tehran residents to reduce their water use amid continuing shortages by cutting supplies to those deemed as consuming too much, state media said. Some 3,057 “large consumers” of water in the capital have had their supplies cut by seven hours a day, …
TEHRAN- Iran plans to place 400,000 electric motorcycles and 140,000 hybrid taxi cabs on the market as part of a plan backed by the Oil Ministry to help environment protection, said the managing director of Iran Fuel Conservation Company (IFCC). Elaborating on the government's above-stated plan, Nosratollah Seifi said, "Due …
A major earthquake struck the western Iranian city of Abdanan on Monday, leaving 60 people injured, state news agency IRNA said. IRNA said the quake was magnitude 6.1 while the US Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 6.3. Water, electricity, and telephone lines in Abdanan, located in the province of …
Iran, sapped by drought in parts of the country for five decades, will try to save one of the Middle East’s largest lakes after it lost 85 percent of its water. Lake Urmia “shouldn’t be left in its current status,” President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday, according to the state-run Fars …
At least four people have been killed, and 30 others injured, in what’s being described as a “freak” sandstorm in Iran’s capital city of Tehran. Winds of the “unprecedented storm" reached 70 mph and knocked out power for roughly 50,000 homes Monday, the Agence France-Presse reports. The cause of fatalities …
Tokyo and Yokohama have been declared the cities at highest risk of natural disaster by Zurich-based Swiss Reinsurance (Swiss Re) in a 2013 study, whose findings were recently announced. Out of a total of 616 cities reviewed, Tokyo and Yokohama both rose to the top thanks to their location in …
17.9 million Kolkatans face serious risk from natural disasters and the city emerges as the world’s seventh riskiest city reveals this new analysis of natural disasters confronting 616 of the world’s largest urban areas. For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in rural areas. …
Iran plans to set up a carbon trading market to reduce industrial emissions of climate-warming gas, an official from Iran's Fuel Conservation Organization (IFCO) told oil ministry news service Shana. Iran has some of the world's largest gas reserves and is major crude oil exporter. But rapidly rising domestic demand …
Energy-starved Pakistan is to import 1000MW from Iran to meet its pressing national needs whereas Tehran has offered 3000MW. Well-informed sources privy to the development told The Nation that federal government has decided to import electricity from Iran to overcome incessant energy crisis of the country and work on binging …
