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UNDP, Hindustan Unilever launch plastic waste management initiative
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Recognising the critical role of safai saathis or waste-pickers in the country's waste management sector, the social inclusion of waste pickers is a key focus of the project. It will reach 20,000 safai saathis across India in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Cuttack, and Kolkata, among others, with
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140 participating nations of COP 15 adopt UNDP Nature Pledge
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in Montreal Canada with the conclusion of COP 15
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Hamara Samarpan Trust's Young Volunteer Pledges To End Poverty by 2030 by
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 21 (ANI/GPRC): India is a land of dichotomies. In the year 2022, on one hand, according to the Fortune India's list of 'India's Richest', the collective wealth of 142 billionaires in India is a whopping USD 832 billion. On the other hand, recognizing India's "grea
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Pakistan admits USD 30 bn flood loss assessment flawed
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The floods affected 33 million people and more than 1,730 lost their lives. They are particularly impacting the poorest and most vulnerable districts. The situation is still evolving, with flood waters stagnant in many areas, causing water-borne and vector-borne diseases to spread, and more
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"In our LiFEtime" campaign launched by India at COP 27, Sharm El-Sheikh
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), jointly launched the "In Our LiFEtime" campaign to encourage youth between the ages of 18 to 23 years to become message bearers of susta
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Understanding 'Concept of LiFE' held at India Pavilion at COP 27, Sharm El
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change, Inger Andersen, Executive Secretary, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ovais Sarmad, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFCCC, Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School of Eco
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CDRI announces Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund at COP27, gets U
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
IRAF, a multi-donor trust fund, established with the support of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), will be managed by the United Nation Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UN MPTFO) in New York.
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EC to hold international conference of election management bodies today
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The ECI leads the Cohort on Election Integrity - which was established as a follow on to the 'Summit for Democracy'. It invited UNDP and International IDEA, apart from EMBs and Government counterparts dealing with the conduct of elections worldwide.
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Centre in "denial mode" of India's poverty, hunger issues: Chidambaram
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Veteran Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the Narendra Modi-led Central Government is in "denial mode" vis-a-vis challenge of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, which he claimed was more evident when it rejected
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50 pc of world's poorest need debt relief to avert major development crisi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 12 (ANI): Fifty-four developing economies accounting for more than half of the world's poorest people need urgent debt relief as a result of cascading global crises, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Bhumi Pednekar talks about climate change in latest video
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Bhumi Pednekar urged the youth to raise their voice against pollution as she shared a video on Wednesday, on social media.
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Pakistan drops seven spots to 161st rank in Human Development Index
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan has dropped seven spots to 161 out of 192 countries in the latest human development rankings released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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