S.Africa’s BanQu app represents model for African recycling efforts
South Africa’s BanQu recycling app represents a key business model for African private sector efforts ...
Sustainable Development
Newly-formed UK PiE Group seeks reducing impact of pharmaceuticals on environment
The new-formed UK Group of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PiE) seeks to reduce the impacts ...
Art projects, beach clean-ups to mark World Environment Day
Several art projects for combating plastic pollution will mark the World Environment Day on June 5 which ...
WMO to bolster gender equality with 1st female chief, new resolution
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is committed to bolstering gender equality with naming its first-ever ...
UK book on threatened fish species to allocate sale proceeds to charity WRT
A UK children’s book on a threatened fish species will be published by Natural England ...
LG launches 1st diagnostic medical monitor with reliable image quality
LG Electronics (LG) has launched its first diagnostic medical monitor with reliable image quality through ...
Andersen: It is all about “redesign” to combat plastic pollution
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Inger Andersen said it is all ...
WMO resolution urges mobilizing more funding over diminishing ice
The Meteorological Congress, the decision-making body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), endorsed a new ...
World Bank approves $ 300 m extra financing to back vulnerable Lebanese people
The World Bank approved additional financing of $300 million to support poor and vulnerable Lebanese ...
Adesina: Africa has youths who can grow bigger than Gates, Zuckerberg
African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said “Africa has young people that can ...
UK’s $2 bn unlocks funding for 2 new climate resilient water infrastructure projects in Egypt, Senegal
UK’s Minister of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced that the $2 billion Room to ...
AfDB official: Newly-established APTF to propel Africa to achieve SDGs
The newly established African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) will be instrumental in propelling Africa towards ...
$ 8.4 bn investments for world’s largest green hydrogen facility in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM
Total investments of about $ 8.4 billion were allocated to the largest green hydrogen production ...
Mohieldin urges applying ESG standards on private sector to prevent greenwashing
Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy ...
World Bank: Carbon taxes, ETS revenues hit record of $ 95 bn
Revenues for carbon taxes and Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) hit a record of about $ ...
COP28 President-Designate calls for major boost to public and private climate finance for African nations
Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and the COP28 ...
Africa Investment Forum comes up with 4 renewable energy, plastic recycling projects at about $ 1.5 bn
The African Investment Forum – which is held on the fringe of the African Development ...
Schneider Electric recognized for creating world’s 1st carbon-neural exhibition stand
Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, won the ...
Egypt’s GSI program to boost green industry investments by 150 million euros
Egypt’s green sustainable industry (GSI) program – due to be launched before the end of ...
3 key Egyptian projects to cut 93,000 tons of CO2 emissions
A promotion film by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) highlighted three key ...
UNEP report: Shift to circular economy to save $ 1.27 trillion
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said in a new report that the shift to a ...