NEW DELHI: Threatened by pollution, India’s holiest river, the Ganges, is running out of time, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned. Speaking at the third meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority on Tuesday, Singh said that nearly 2,900 million liters of sewage was being discharged in the river daily and was virtually choking [...]
MUMBAI: In a bid to ingrain green accountability, the union government is now mooting an ‘environment friend rating’ for states. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests, a ministry of the Central government has drawn up an Environment Protection or Performance Index (EPI) that is expected to be ready and finalized by next year, 2013. The [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s electronic waste (e-waste) generation has jumped eight times post 2004 even as an ill-prepared government is still groping in the dark in how to deal with the issue. A report by India’s Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, revealed that by the end of 2012, India will be facing a eight-ton heap [...]
Belgrade (dpa) – More than 200,000 people in Slovenia were expected to take part in a big nationwide cleanup on Saturday and remove tens of thousands of tons of garbage, national television said. The action “Let’s clean Slovenia up in a day” was organized by Ecologists Without Borders with the aim of clearing some 7,000 [...]
Tangible results are steadily becoming apparent for a number of environmental initiatives spearheaded by one of Africa’s most prolific operators. Bharti Airtel has hit significant milestones in its endeavor to build a ‘green’ environment friendly mobile network and reduce its carbon footprint in Africa. The company said that over the last year, it has reduced [...]
CAIRO: The African Union expressed its “deep concern” on Friday at what it said was the deteriorating humanitarian situation unfolding in the Sahel region of Africa. It said in a statement that the crisis is “characterized by the drought, insecurity, high food prices, erosion of the resilience of the affected communities and displacement of persons, [...]
CAIRO: The green revolution has arrived. Well, almost. While we watch as Europe gets its act together and North America and South America continue to reach toward environmentalism succinct with everyday life, in the Islamic world, only pockets of forward thinking has appeared. The Islamic world needs a green revolution that will see the religion [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Four nomadic tribes in remote Namibia have petitioned the United Nations to stop the construction of a massive hydro-electric dam, according to reports on Friday. According to the petitioners, collectively known as the Himba people, generations of their ancestors’ graves would be flooded by the planned construction in the north-east region of [...]
Industries should take into account green measures for every aspect of what they do to be able to ensure their sustainable future, the United Nations agency entrusted with accelerating industrial development in poorer States said on Thursday. Speaking at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) in Copenhagen, the Director-General of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) [...]
AUCKLAND: Cracks are beginning to appear in the stricken container ship stuck on a reef off New Zealand. Already, as many as 70 of the thousands of containers on the ship have fallen into the sea Court Hearing The 44-year-old Filipino Captain is being charged under section 65 of the Maritime Transport Act of operating a [...]
The small island of Tuvalu will be able to access $4 million from the Pacific Environment Community (PEC) Fund for desalination plants and solar-power generation. Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade said “this is a timely project as Tuvalu is currently in a state of emergency due to drought.” This announcement comes amid [...]
Carrier, the world’s leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions and a part of United Technologies Corp. (UTX), recognizes that well-trained green building professionals are at the core of transforming the built environment for a more sustainable future. With buildings consuming 40 percent of energy use around the world today, the company has [...]
CAIRO: In a bold move, a sport institute in Ismailia is launching an new project to promote the environment and social participation through planting one million trees across the country. General Manager of the Youth and Sport Institute in Ismailia Foad Abdel Baqy said his institute agreed to implement the Million Trees project across the [...]
United Nations officials on Monday urged the international community to take action against mounting threats posed by climate change on the world’s urban areas, warning that climate-related events could force up to 200 million people worldwide to flee their homes by 2050. But the officials also noted that while cities are at great risk from [...]
Bee’ah, the United Arab Emirates’s integrated and award winning environmental and waste management company – will introduce the UAE’s first recyclables reverse-vending machines at the Green Middle East exhibition, set to take place from October 17 to 19 at the Expo Centre, in Sharjah. The initiative comes as part of Bee’ah’s recycling drive to promote [...]
The United Nations has failed to accept the consequences of the decisions it took on nuclear testing in the 1950s, and the people of the Marshall Islands are still paying the penalty physically and psychologically, the country’s Foreign Minister said on Monday. John Silk told the General Assembly, which is holding its annual general debate, that the [...]
Members of a United Nations task force looking into the health and environmental impacts of the accident earlier this year at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan on Monday began discussions on how to move forward with their assessment. “This basically is a management meeting about how we assess the risks and effects,” said [...]
Representatives of small island States took to the podium at the General Assembly today to exhort the world to pay greater attention to their vulnerability to climate change, stressing that sustainable development will not be possible as rising sea levels threaten to swamp them. From the Caribbean to the Pacific to the Atlantic, the small [...]
Water and sun come together to produce eco-friendly ways of going green. Rainwater harvesting, a growing trend, is where rain is collected along rooftops, in buckets, any opportunity where the water can be gathered and stored. Ideally, the water is then purified and dispersed accordingly. Now, a solar powered pump has been created that takes [...]
Rwanda on Wednesday won a United Nations-backed gold award for its forest promotion policies, an event that former United States track and field star Carl Lewis, himself a nine-time Olympic gold winner and now UN Goodwill Ambassador, called more important than the many medals he has garnered. Policies from the United States and Gambia were [...]
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