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 ...
Sustainable Development
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. ...
Bicyclists gather for Moonlight Ride for Hunger
Bicyclists filled the streets of Quincy for the third annual Moonlight Ride for Hunger Saturday evening. ...
40 Egyptian youths participate in Berlin University’s ULC in El Gouna
Forty youths from various Egyptian governorate participate in the Urban Lab Camp (ULC) II – ...
Egypt’s governmental universities, institutes’ budget hit EGP 34.5 bn in 2019
Egypt allocated this year a budget of EGP 34.5 billion for governmental universities and institutes ...
Columbia University’s sustainable transportation wins ACT award
Colombia University’s sustainable transportation won an award for “Best Overall Program” in transportation demand management ...
Africa’s promising nature-based tourism brings $48 bn in revenue
Africa’s nature-based tourism brings about $48 billion in revenue. The number visitors to the continent’s ...
UK extends extra £18 m lifesaving aid to S.Sudan
The UK decided to extend an extra £18 million to provide vital food to hundreds ...
EBRD extends €25 m to Kosovo to support energy efficiency, sustainability
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) extended a €25 million loan to the ...
WB spends $ 5 trillion annually to contain air pollution
The World Bank spends about $ 5 trillion annually to contain air pollution, with most ...
UNDP, Samsung Electronics partner to serve SDGs
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. engaged in a new ...
EBRD, IFC, OPIC extend $ 252 m loan to Egypt’s wind farm
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the ...
Danone’s plant to be 1st carbon-free plant in New Zealand by 2021 at €25 m investments
Danone, a leading global food company, Danone, said it will invest about €25 millions for ...
Hope for zero hunger glimmers as WFP innovative solution in Sudan succeeds
The world came to have hope to be hunger-free under climate change challenges as the ...
FAO, Italy join forces for SDG 2 on zero hunger
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Italy agreed to join hands to achieve the Sustainable ...
Egyptian gov. injected EGP 1.3 bn into most vulnerable villages in Egypt in one year
The Egyptian Planning minister’s deputy Ahmed Kamali said the state invested about EGP 1.3 billion ...