Environment
Green Terre’s NetZero campaign spreads its roots...
November 10, 2023
Over a year after it launched the U75 movement for NetZero campuses and to instill a sense of climate responsibility among Indian students, Pune’s Green Terre Foundation has now set its sights on the northern part of the country. In this context, Green Terre partnered with Univ...
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Interconnected Disaster Risk Report cautions of dr...
October 25, 2023
A new report, released by the United Nations University, released today finds that the world is enroute to facing many drastic changes if risks to our fundamental socioecological systems are not addressed. The Interconnected Disaster Risks Report 2023 published by the United Nati...
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Major setback to COP28, as key meeting of Loss �...
October 24, 2023
Climate activists have lashed out at the rich nations as yet another promise made by them seems set to be broken. Despite going into overtime and several rounds of breakout and plenary discussions, the fourth meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) on Loss and Damage has end...
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Ahead of Cop 28, NGOs demand higher allocation for...
October 16, 2023
Days before governments meet in Aswan, Egypt, for the fourth and final Transitional Committee meeting on Loss and Damage ahead of COP28, over 170 organisations from the humanitarian, climate and development sectors have issued a joint call demanding Loss and Damage finance, under...
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International E-Waste Day: 7.3 billion e-toys disc...
October 12, 2023
Each year, 7.3 billion pieces of various electronic toys and gadgets end up in landfills around the world. Every year, 9 billion kg of unused cables, electronic toys, LED-decorated novelty clothes, power tools, vaping devices, and countless other small consumer items that are not...
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Scientists develop new methods to measure human im...
September 18, 2023
With increasing impact of climate change across the world, food security has become a critical issue for the world and new research published by British and Chinese scientists says that future plans to tackle the climate change’s impacts on food security must integrate local kn...
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UNEP worried over 6 billion tonnes of marine sand ...
September 5, 2023
One of the largest threats to the already fragilised global marine ecosystem is posed by the global marine dredging industry that digs over 6 billion tonnes of sand and other sediments each year, significantly impacting biodiversity and coastal communities. According to a report ...
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Avaaz urges immediate action at 7th GEF Assembly
August 24, 2023
The summer of 2023 has been one of the worst in Canadian history, at least in terms of wildfires that had gripped vast tracts of Canadian forests, affecting all the 13 provinces and impacting over 15.5 million hectares of what was mainly virgin forest. So bad was the situation th...
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Big expectations as 8 South American leaders gathe...
August 8, 2023
On Tuesday, Presidents from eight countries across the Amazon including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela gather in Belem in Brazil in their first meeting since 2009 under the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) to discuss the fate...
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350.org to hold ‘Global Day of Action’ on rene...
August 6, 2023
Global climate justice organisation 350.org says it will organise worldwide days of action on November 3 and 4 to urgent acceleration of the transition to a renewable-powered world. In a press statement, 350.org says that its announcement coincides with fossil fuel companies repo...
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