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Indian Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil receives UNEP's Lifetime Achievement
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has awarded prominent Indian Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil with the Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the United Nations' highest environmental honour. Gadgil now joins the hall of fame with other esteemed laureates such as David Attenbor
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Ram Bandhu & Robin Hood Army Unite For #StopFoodWastage Movement With
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 28: Wastage of edible items is an issue that plagues Indian households and businesses alike. As per the UN Environment Programme's latest report the per capita food wastage figure in India is 55 kg per year whereas on the other end of the spectrum more t
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World Environment Day: Reliance Games' Initiative Turns Gamers into Enviro
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 7: In commemoration of World Environment Day, Reliance Games proudly announces a unique green initiative to raise awareness about the hazards of plastic among children and youth. Building upon the tremendous success of campaigns over the past two years, whi
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Chhatbir Zoo conducts mass mobilization campaign on World Environment Day
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
World Environment Day was celebrated at Chhatbir Zoo on Wednesday and an awareness campaign of mass mobilization was concluded with a plantation drive in which the Field Director with all the zoo officials and visitors planted trees inside zoo campus.
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World Environment Day 2024: Generation Restoration initiative takes action
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
This year, World Environment Day (WED) 2024 focuses on land restoration, halting desertification and building drought resilience under the slogan "Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration," wrote WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed.
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37 pc spike in fossil fuel lobbyists at UN talks to curb plastic pollution
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Around 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists, including 11 from India, have registered for the United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution in Ottawa, according to an analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a nonprof
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World on track to produce 110 pc more fossil fuels by 2030 in breach of Pa
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The fourth edition of 'The Production Gap Report' released on Wednesday has revealed that annual oil and gas production is projected to increase by 27 per cent and 25 per cent by 2030, and by 29 percent and 41 per cent by 2050, respectively.
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UNEP to announce winners of 2023 Champions of the Earth Award next week
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will announce next week the five winners of the 2023 Champions of the Earth Award, the UN's highest environmental honour.
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UNIDO, Secretariat of Carpathian Convention strengthen cooperation by sign
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The declaration, concluded on the sidelines of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention held in Belgrade recently, marks an important milestone for cooperation aiming to spearhead new joint initiatives for the sustainable industrial development of the
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Collective efforts needed to stop wasting food while millions go hungry: U
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) are sounding the alarm over losses amounting to 13 per cent of the world’s food in the supply chain before products even hit the shelves, and a further 17 per cent lost in households and retail.
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New Certification Aims to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance Risk in Antibi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5: BSI, the business improvement and standards company, today launched a new global Minimized Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) certification designed to promote and attest to the responsible manufacturing of antibiotics in the global supply chain, helping to min
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India vulnerable to climate change due to heavy population: UNEP Executive
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"You see the effects of climate change everywhere in the world. But of course, India is particularly vulnerable to climate change because it has a heavy population and the kind of nature of India makes it more vulnerable than most other places," Solheim said on Y20 talk on climate action.
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