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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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Chhatbir Zoo conducts mass mobilization campaign on World Environment Day
Updated : 1 year, 11 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, 11 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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UNEP to announce winners of 2023 Champions of the Earth Award next week
Updated : 2 years, 6 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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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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Act Now hosts 4th edition of World's Longest and Largest Environment Onlin
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8: "Young people, speak up, through activism, through the arts and performances, through clean ups, through protest movements. Your voice is strong and getting stronger. You have power to decide your future," said Dr. Susan Gardner, United Nations Environment Programm
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New approach required to solve single-use plastics problem in India
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): Plastic waste has been one of the most significant environmental problems challenging humankind. Experts have realised that conventional plastics, which takes several hundred years to degrade are a critical ecological hazard. As per the United Nati
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Rajasthan's Sarpanch initiates the 'Garbage Free Marriage Functions' Campa
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], February 6 (ANI/PNN): Known as Hockey Wali Sarpanch, Neeru Yadav the Sarpach of Lambi Ahir, Tehsil Buhana, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan; has initiated a positive change towards reducing the food waste in the marriages. In her recent initiative, she has started a unique ca
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UN ranks Namami Gange among Top 10 World Restoration Flagship Programmes
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The award was received by G. Asok Kumar, the Director General of the Namami Gange project during a function at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada on World Restoration Day on Wednesday.
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Understanding 'Concept of LiFE' held at India Pavilion at COP 27, Sharm El
Updated : 3 years, 6 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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MoU inked between NCC, UN Environment Programme in New Delhi to achieve un
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): National Cadet Corps (NCC) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday to tackle the issue of plastic pollution and achieve the goa
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