UK launches 1st pilot project to help reduce flooding risk of River Aire at £ 500,000
The UK launched its 1st pilot project to help reduce flooding risk of River Aire ...
Sustainable Development
Uganda’s Mabira Forest at risk over increasing population, high charcoal demand
The United Nations Environment (UN Environment) has cautioned that Mabira Forest – which is one ...
Leonardo DiCaprio pledges $5m to help save the Amazon
Earth Alliance, an environmental group co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio, has announced over the weekend that ...
UK to provide £1.44bn to Green Climate Fund over coming four years
The UK will provide £1.44bn to the Green Climate Fund over the next four years. This doubles ...
Over 1.9 m children forced out of school in West, Central Africa over violence upsurge
More than 1.9 million children have been forced out of school in West and Central ...
UK offers £30 m aid to support female entrepreneurs in Africa
The UK announced on Sunday a £30 million aid to support up to 10,000 budding ...
UK earmarks £300 m for developing cleaner, greener transports
The UK government has allocated up to £300 million for developing cleaner and greener forms of ...
Dasani makes a bigger splash in bottled water sustainability
Through a quintet of coordinated sustainability initiatives, the Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta) is aggressively aligning the ...
Lack of clean water limits economic growth by one-third – WB
The World Bank said lack of clean water limits economic growth by one-third, calling for ...
From brown to green economy to save our planet
A brown economy is one in which economic growth is largely dependant on environmentally destructive ...
UNICEF appeals for $70 m to provide life-saving aid to 900,000 children across Venezuela
UNICEF appealed for more than US$70 million to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to 900,000 children ...
Increasing waste-to-energy plants to devor billions of tons of waste, generate renewable energy, reduce CO2
There is an international move to increase waste-to-energy plants to devour billions of tons of ...
Lufthansa launches new platform for travelers to replace flights’ fossil fuel with sustainable one
Lufthansa launched a new platform for travelers to replace fossil fuel of their flights with ...
UK businesses can get up to £20 m to develop low carbon automotive capability
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for UK-developed late ...
Lidl becomes first UK supermarket to launch reusable fruit and vegetable bags
Lidl has become the first supermarket in the UK to introduce reusable fruit and veg bags ...
PSUs spending in FY18 even lower than FY15, yr when CSR made mandatory
Overall spending by state-run companies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in 2017-18 (Apr-Mar) at ...
Pretoria Energy Company in UK to pay around £45.5 m over polluting Fenland watercourses
Pretoria Energy Company (Arable) Limited, which produces feedstock for a sister company’s anaerobic digestion plants, ...
UNIDO,FAO to launch initiative to accelerate African youth employment in agribusiness
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will ...
EBRD to extend EGP 28m to Egypt for renovating locomotives, rail freight transportation
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) will extend two grants worth 28 million ...
Green stoves relying on food waste, recycled materials to address deforestation, pollution
Agricultural engineer Judith Djaonaiel and Mani Yezid, a student at Burkina Faso’s International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering ...
Agroforestry proves to be best way to restore 20% of Côte d’Ivoire’s forests
Agroforestry proved to be the best way to restore 20 percent of Côte d’Ivoire’s forests. ...